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Debashis Ghosh, Ph.D.
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Biosketch
Debashis Ghosh is Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. Previously, he was a faculty member in the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and the Department of Statistics at Penn State University. His research interests focus on statistical machine learning, causal modelling and biomarker evaluation with applications in cancer. At the University of Colorado, he has developed collaborations in imaging, infectious disease and environmental health.
Recent courses developed/taught:
- BIOS 6690: MPH Capstone Preparation (Fall 2021)
- BIOS 6641: Causal Inference
- BIOS 6640: R for Data Science
Recent representative pulications
- Liu D, Lin X, Ghosh D. Semiparametric regression of multidimensional genetic pathway data: least-squares kernel machines and linear mixed models. Biometrics. 2007 Dec;63(4):1079-88. PubMed PMID: 18078480; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2665800.
- Okamato Y, Ghosh T, Okamoto T, Schuyler RP, Seifert J, Charry LL, Visser A, Feser M, Fleischer C, Pedrick C, August J, Moss L, Bemis EA, Norris JM, Kuhn KA, Demoruelle MK, Deane KD, Ghosh D, Holers VM, Hsieh EWY. Subjects at-risk for future development of rheumatoid arthritis demonstrate a PAD4-and TLR-dependent enhanced histone H3 citrullination and proinflammatory cytokine production in CD14hi monocytes. J Autoimmun. 2021 Feb;117:102581. doi: 10.1016/j.jaut.2020.102581. Epub 2020 Dec 9. PMID: 33310262; PMCID: PMC7855988.
- Carpenter CM, Zhang W, Gillenwater L, Severn C, Ghosh T, Bowler R, Kechris K, Ghosh D. PaIRKAT: A pathway integrated regression-based kernel association test with applications to metabolomics and COPD phenotypes. PLoS Comput Biol. 2021 Oct 22;17(10):e1008986. doi: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008986. PMID: 34679079; PMCID: PMC8565741.
- Simon OB, Buard I, Rojas DC, Holden SK, Kluger BM, Ghosh D. A novel approach to understanding Parkinsonian cognitive decline using minimum spanning trees, edge cutting, and magnetoencephalography. Sci Rep. 2021 Oct 5;11(1):19704. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-99167-2. PMID: 34611218; PMCID: PMC8492620.