It has allowed us to recruit an outstanding new faculty member, Danyu Lin. If he continues to help others unlock their creative ability in this way, as I expect he will, this endowment will have been a bargain. Lin received his Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan in 1989 and received his post-doctoral training at Harvard University. In 1990, Lin joined the department of biostatistics at the University of Washington. Recognized worldwide for his research in survival analysis, Lin has published more than 70 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals.
Survival analysis involves the examination of long-term health studies.
Lin is the principal researcher on two National Institutes of Health grants for studies seeking to develop statistical methods for the design and analysis of clinical and epidemiological studies. He has been elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 1999, he won the American Public Health Association s Mortimer Spiegelman Award, given annually to an outstanding biostatistician under age 40. He also advises the Food and Drug Administration on new pharmaceutical compounds. Born in 1945 in London, Dennis Gillings earned his undergraduate degree in mathematical statistics from the University of Cambridge in England in 1967 and his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Exeter in 1972, at which point he joined the UNC-CH faculty.