Dr. Strug is a Professor in the Departments of Statistical Sciences, Computer Science and cross-appointed in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto and is a Senior Scientist in the Program in Genetics and Genome Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is the Lead of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Gene Modifier Study, Co-Lead of the International CF Gene Modifier Consortium, Director of the Ontario Regional Centre of the Canadian Statistical Sciences Institute (CANSSI) and the Academic Director of the Data Science Institute at the University of Toronto. As a statistical geneticist, her research focuses on the development of novel statistical approaches to analyze and integrate multi-omics data to identify genetic contributors to complex human disease. She has received several honours and awards including the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Genome Data Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Dr. Strug is a Professor in the Departments of Statistical Sciences, Computer Science and cross-appointed in Biostatistics at the University of Toronto and is a Senior Scientist in the Program in Genetics and Genome Biology at the Hospital for Sick Children. She is the Lead of the Canadian Cystic Fibrosis (CF) Gene Modifier Study, Co-Lead […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speaker"],"yoast_head":"\n