Our Team
Leo
Wang-Kit Cheung, PhD
Core Director
Assistant Professor
Teaching
and Services
Dr. Cheung has
taught various courses in Statistics and Biostatistics since 1996.
In 2004 Dr. Cheung teamed with faculty in Information and Computer
Sciences of the University of Hawaii to offer a new graduate course
in Bioinformatics, and was selected to serve on the University of
Hawaii Bioinformatics Advisory Board. He helped develop the bioinformatics
component of the new University of Hawaii Center for Genomics, Proteomics,
and Bioinformatics Research Initiative. With support from the Maui
High Performance Computing Center, an Air Force Research Laboratory
Center managed by the University of Hawaii, he has been utilizing
the supercomputer facility to further his research in Bioinformatics.
Dr. Cheung also served as a developer of the Vocabularies and Common
Data Elements (VCDE) Workspace, one of the Cross Cutting Workspaces,
of the NCI Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid (caBIG) project (
http://cabig.nci.nih.gov). He and Dr. Lynne Wilkens at CRCH headed
an effort to make the NCI thesaurus more functional in terms of
nutritional vocabularies used in Cancer Epidemiology. Furthermore,
he was a VCDE Mentor/Facilitator of the Microarray Repositories
Special Interest Group and the Informatics for Proteomics Special
Interest Group of the Integrative Cancer Research Workspace, one
of the Domain Workspaces of the NCI caBIG. As a Biostatistician
and Bioinformatician at the Loyola University Medical Center (LUMC),
Dr. Cheung works collaboratively with other researchers of the Center
providing biostatistical and bioinformatics consultation and support
to joint research projects. In particular, he is establishing a
Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core (BBC) and functioning as a
key Bioinformatician at the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center of
LUMC.
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