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Cruz Velasco PhD
Assistant Professor

1615 Poydras Street
Suite 1400
New Orleans, LA 70112

Phone: 504-568-6082
Fax: 504-568-5701
cvelas@lsuhsc.edu

   
Degrees:

BS Agronomy - 1985
Chapingo University, Mexico

MS Applied Statistics - 1988
Postgraduates College, Mexico

PhD Biostatistics - 2000
Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

 

 

Research Interests:

Biostatistical Methodology
Survival Analysis
Statistical design and analysis for cancer research studies, including basic research , gene expression, and statistical genetics

   
Teaching:

BIOS 6212: Survival Analysis

   
Selected Publications:

Delongchamp, R., Velasco, C., Medhi, R, Harris, A. & Casciano, D., Median-of-Subsets Normalization of Intensities for cDNA Array Data, DNA and Cell Biology 23, 2004.

Dildy, G.A.III, Paine, A.R., George, N.C., Velasco, C., Estimating blood loss: Can teaching significantly improve visual estimation?, Obstetrics & Ginecology 104, 2004.

Delongchamp, R., Velasco, C., Harris, A., Dial, S., Genome-wide estimation of gender differences in the gene expression of human livers: Statistical design and analysis, BMC Bioinformatics 6 (Suppl 2), 2005.

Delongchamp R., Lee T., Velasco C., A method for computing the overall significance of a treatment effect among groups of genes, BMC Bioinformatics 7(Suppl 2): S11, 2006.

Garcia R., Arcement C., Hormaza L., Haymon M.L., Ward K., Velasco C., Correa H., Congeni J.D., Brown R., Tyson P., Udall J., Schmidt-Sommerfeld E., Use of the Recto-Sigmoid Index to Diagnose Hirschsprungs Disease, Clinical Pediatrics 46(1): 59-63, 2007.

Davila E., Miller N., Zheng L., Geng D., Velasco C., Sanchez L., Engagement of Toll-like receptor-2 on cytotoxic T-lymphocytes in vivo augments anti-tumor activity., FASEBJ.22 (10): 3628-3637, 2008.

Delongchamp R., Velasco C., Desai V., Lee T., Fuscoe J., "Designing toxicogenomics studies that use DNA array technology", Bioinformatics and Biology Insights 2: 323-334, 2008.

Lee T., Desai V.G., Velasco C., Reis R., Delongchamp R., Testing for treatment effects on gene ontology, BMC Bioinformatics 9 (Suppl 9): S20, 2008.

   
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