Chair and Senior Member
Moffitt Cancer Center
Brooke L. Fridley is Professor, Senior Member and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. She is also the Scientific Director for Moffitt Cancer Center’s Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource. Prior to joining Moffitt Cancer Center, Dr. Fridley was at the University of Kansas Medical Center and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. At the University of Kansas Medical Center, she was Director of the Biostatistics and Informatics Shared Resource for the NCI designated University of Kansas Cancer Center and Site Director for the Kansas-INBRE Bioinformatics Core. Dr. Fridley received her BS in mathematics from Truman State University and her MS and PhD in statistics from Iowa State University. Her research focus is in the areas of statistical genomics, molecular epidemiology of cancer, cancer genomics and pharmacogenomics. She has extensive experience as a collaborating statistician, particularly in the design and analysis of studies involving multiple types of ‘omic data. Recently, she has been particularly involved in studies of ovarian cancer, development of integrative analysis methods for study with multi-omic data, and development of methods and software for the analysis of the spatial architecture of the tumor microenvironment. She has over 280 publications, has been awarded 5 NIH grants, is the Scientific Director for Moffitt’s Lung Metabolism P01 Data Science Core, and is MPI of a NIH/NCI T32 training grant in cancer biology and data science.
