Dr. Annette Molinaro, PhD
PNOC Statistical Lead
Dr. Annette Molinaro is a Professor and the Zelda d'Angleterre Glazer’s Endowed Chair in Brain Tumor Research at UCSF whose work spans statistical methodology, machine learning, and clinical trial design across the full spectrum of brain tumor research. She serves as Director of Biomedical Statistics and Informatics for the UCSF Department of Neurological Surgery and Biostatistics Core Director for the Brain SPORE, where she advises on study design and modeling and analyzes data from UCSF Brain Tumor Center projects spanning imaging, genetics, genomics, epidemiology, and immunology.
Dr. Molinaro has been the lead Statistician on PNOC's clinical trial program since its inception. An elected member of the NCI's Brain Malignancies Steering Committee and the International Statistical Institute, Dr. Molinaro also serves on the Editorial Board for Neuro-Oncology and as Associate Editor for Neuro-Oncology Practice. She has authored over 250 publications, including three book chapters and several freely available software packages for analyzing high-dimensional data.
Education
BS, Statistics, Florida State University
MA, Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, Biostatistics & Computational Biology, University of California, Berkeley
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer Prevention, National Cancer Institute (2004–2005)
Affiliations & Editorial Roles
Elected Member, International Statistical Institute (2006)
Member, National Cancer Institute Brain Malignancies Steering Committee
Editor: 'Series on Biostatistics for the Practicing Clinician,' Neuro-Oncology Practice
Editorial Board member: Neuro-Oncology; Neuro-Oncology Practice; Neuro-Oncology Advances
Awards & Recognition
Diane D. Ralston Clinical and Basic Neuroscience Teaching Award (UCSF, 2013)
Teacher of the Year Award (Yale University School of Public Health, 2008)
Chin Long Chiang Biostatistics Student of the Year (University of California, Berkeley, 2004)
Evelyn Fix Prize (University of California, Berkeley, 2004)
Selected Research & Clinical Publications
Molinaro AM, Simon R, Pfeiffer RM. Prediction error estimation: a comparison of resampling methods. Bioinformatics. 2005;21(15):3301-3307. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti499. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15905277/.
Eckel-Passow JE, Lachance DH, Molinaro AM, Walsh KM, Decker PA, Sicotte H, et al. Glioma groups based on 1p/19q, IDH, and TERT promoter mutations in tumors. N Engl J Med. 2015;372(26):2499-2508. doi:10.1056/NEJMoa1407279. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26061753/.
Molinaro AM, Taylor JW, Wiencke JK, Wrensch MR. Genetic and molecular epidemiology of adult diffuse glioma. Nat Rev Neurol. 2019;15(7):405-417. doi:10.1038/s41582-019-0220-2. Available from: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31227792/.
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