Bhramar Mukherjee Explained

Bhramar Mukherjee
Birth Date:22 October 1973
Birth Place:Kolkata, India
Nationality:American
Citizenship:America
Occupation:Biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher.
Senior Associate Dean for Data Science and Data Equity, Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, Professor of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University.
Alma Mater:Presidency College (BSc)
Indian Statistical Institute (M.Stat)
Purdue University (MS, PhD)
Thesis Title:Optimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process.
Thesis Url:https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/dissertations/AAI3043760/
Thesis Year:2001
Doctoral Advisor:William J. Studden

Bhramar Mukherjee is an Indian-American biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher. She is currently serving as the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at the Yale School of Public Health from August 1, 2024.[1] She is also appointed as Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics, Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Disease) with secondary appointment as Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University.[2]

Mukherjee holds a Senior Honorary Visiting Fellow position at the Biostatistics Unit of the Medical Research Council, working on the theme of population health at the University of Cambridge, UK.[3] Mukherjee is also appointed as an overseas fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

Prior to joining Yale, she worked University of Michigan from 2008-2024, where she was appointed as the John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics, Siobán D. Harlow Collegiate Professor of Public Health and the Chair of Department of Biostatistics, a professor of epidemiology and global public health at the University of Michigan.[4] She served as the associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences and Cancer Control and Population Sciences at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.[5] In 2023 Mukherjee was also appointed as the inaugural Assistant Vice President of Research: Research Data Strategy at the University of Michigan Office of Vice President of Research.

Mukherjee's research has been focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, environmental health and disease risk assessment. She has authored over 390 articles in statistics, biostatistics, epidemiology and medical Journals. She has led several federally funded grants as a principal investigator. Her focus has been to integrate diverse data sources for efficient inference.[6]

Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association[7] and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[8] She was elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2022.[9] She has served as the past Chair for Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) for a three-year term 2019-2021.[10]

Education

Mukherjee was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She received her B.Sc. in statistics from Presidency College in Kolkata in 1994 and her M.Stat from Indian Statistical Institute in 1996. At the completion of her M.Stat, The Ramakrishna Mission awarded her the Debesh-Kamal scholarship for studying abroad and Mukherjee moved to the United States, where she received her M.S. in mathematical statistics in 1999 and then her Ph.D. in statistics in 2001, both from Purdue University.[7] [11] Her advisor was William J. Studden and her thesis title was "Optimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process".[12]

Career

After completing her Ph.D., Mukherjee joined University of Florida as an assistant professor of Statistics and taught there until 2006, when she left to join the University of Michigan as the John G. Searle Assistant Professorship.[7] In 2009, she became associate professor and in 2013, full professor. She was awarded the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan in 2015.[11] She was appointed the associate chair of Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan in 2014 and became the first woman chair of the department in 2018.[4]

In 2016, Mukherjee was appointed the associate director of cancer control and population studies at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center, where she led the Cancer Center's research on cancer screening, epidemiology and prevention, as well as research on cancer outcomes, disparities and new models of cancer care delivery. After 4 years in this role she transitioned as the newly appointed associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences in 2020.[5]

Mukherjee was the founding director of a cross-disciplinary summer institute at the School of Public Health[13] to train undergraduates at the intersection of big data and human health. This program has trained 357 undergraduate students from 2015-2024. Mukherjee has served as the cohort development core co-director in the University of Michigan's Precision Health Initiative and leads the Center for Precision Health Data Science.[14] In 2023, she was appointed as the inaugural Assistant Vice President of Research-Research Data Strategy to strengthen data analysis infrastructure across the University of Michigan.

Mukherjee was the statistics editor for the American Journal of Preventive Medicine from 2013 to 2014, an Associate Editor of Statistics in Medicine from 2015 to 2018, and an Associate Editor of Biometrics from 2008 to 2018. She has served on the editorial board of the Harvard Data Science Review[15] and Genetic Epidemiology.[16] She is currently an Associate Editor for Science Advances.

Research and work

Mukherjee's research has primarily focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, analysis of observational data and disease risk assessment. Her current interests include electronic health records, shrinkage methods, data integration, modeling of high dimensional exposure data and studies of gene-environment interaction. Her collaborations span in the areas of reproductive epidemiology, cancer epidemiology and environmental health. She has authored over 360 articles in scientific journals and has led several federally funded grants as principal investigator.[4] [17] Mukherjee is currently serving as one of the principal investigators of a large cohort building grant MI-CARES (Michigan Cancer and Research on the Environment Study),[18] studying the impact of toxic exposures on cancer risks in Michigan residents.

One of the focal points of Mukherjee's research is to understand how the interaction between genes and environment increases or decreases cancer risk. In this area, she has studied how lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity coupled with the genetic makeup of an individual impact their cancer risk. She has also worked on developing models that use genetic data to predict which individuals have a higher cancer risk.[19] In 2018, Mukherjee and her colleagues conducted a phenome-wide association study to see if the polygenic risk scores for different cancers are associated with multiple phenotypes. Their study showed that polygenic risk scores can help in stratifying the risk of different cancers in patients.[20] [21] During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mukherjee and her study team took an active role in modeling the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in India. This work received significant attention from the media [22] and from the scientific community.[23]

Awards and honors

Selected articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Award-Winning Statistician Joins Yale School of Public Health Leadership. Colin. Poitras. 8 April 2024. 9 April 2024.
  2. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D, MS..
  3. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee, MRC BSU.
  4. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D..
  5. Web site: Leadership. 6 September 2013.
  6. Web site: Scopus – Mukherjee, Bhramar.
  7. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee. March 2018 .
  8. Web site: Individual Members. 2019-10-10. 2017-07-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20170729010059/https://www.isi-web.org/index.php/about-isi/who-is-isi/members/indivual. dead.
  9. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee Elected to National Academy of Medicine.
  10. Web site: Welcome to the COPSS Homepage.
  11. Web site: University of Michigan Cancer Center Appoints Indian American Biostatistician. 2019-10-10. 2019-07-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20190722104659/https://www.indiawest.com/news/global_indian/university-of-michigan-cancer-center-appoints-indian-american-biostatistician/article_98bb622e-9ad0-11e5-ad4e-dff7a5a037cb.html. dead.
  12. Web site: Optimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process. January 2001 . 1–109 . Mukherjee . Bhramar .
  13. Web site: Big Data Summer Institute.
  14. Web site: Center for Precision Health Data Science.
  15. Editors · Harvard Data Science Review . Harvard Data Science Review . MIT Press . 28 February 2021 . en.
  16. Web site: Genetic Epidemiology.
  17. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee.
  18. Web site: MICARES.
  19. Web site: Polygenic Risk Scores Show Utility for Stratifying Disease Risk. 21 February 2018 .
  20. Fritsche L, Gruber SB, Wu Z, Schmidt EM, Zawistowski M, Moser SE, Blanc V, Brummet C, Kheterpal S, Abecasis GA, Mukherjee B. Association of Polygenic Risk Scores for Multiple Cancers in a Phenomewide Study: Results from The Michigan Genomics Initiative, The American Journal of Human Genetics, 102:1048-1061, 2018, PMCID: PMC5992124
  21. Web site: Several Cancer Types Significantly Tied to Polygenic Risk Scores in New PheWAS. 17 May 2018 .
  22. News: It is the coronavirus that is killing the economy, not just the lockdown. . 12 July 2020 .
  23. News: How to Identify Flawed Research Before It Becomes Dangerous. The New York Times . 20 July 2020 . Eisen . Michael B. . Tibshirani . Robert .
  24. Web site: 2019 Leaders Forum. 7 February 2022 .
  25. Web site: Rogel Cancer Center names 14 inaugural Rogel Scholars. 8 May 2019 .
  26. Web site: Michigan: Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee Selected as 2020 L. Adrienne Cupples Award Winner. 2020-02-14. 2021-09-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20210926041830/https://www.aspph.org/michigan-dr-bhramar-mukherjee-selected-as-2020-l-adrienne-cupples-award-winner/. dead.
  27. Web site: Five Alumnae to be honored as Distinguished Women Scholars.
  28. Web site: Bhramar Mukherjee Receives Janet L Norwood Award.
  29. Web site: Three Faculty Members to receive Goddard Power Awards.
  30. Web site: National Academy of Medicine Elects 100 New Members. 17 October 2022 .
  31. Web site: Mukherjee and Taylor Wins ASA awards.
  32. Web site: Celebrating NISS Awards 2023. 6 August 2023 .
  33. Web site: 2023 Distinguished University Professors.
  34. Web site: Zelen Award. 13 May 2016 .

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