Irina Dinu, PhD, BSc - Directory@UAlberta.ca

Contact

Professor, School of Public Health

Email: idinu@ualberta.ca
Phone: (780) 492-8336
Address: 3-278 Edmonton Clinic Health Academy
11405 87 Ave NW

Edmonton AB

T6G 1C9

Overview

About

My research focus is to develop biostatistical tools for analysis of microarray data.

The microarray technology measures expression profiles of tens of thousands of genes in a single assay. This new technology has brought tremendous promise to clinical and biological sciences by allowing technology-driven explorations of disease markers and pathways that were previously unthinkable. It also comes with data-analytic challenges due to the complexity and high dimensionality of its data.

I am collaborating with scientists at the Glenrose Hospital in the area of outcomes / health services research. I am interested in collaborating with public health sciences researchers and practitioners by providing biostatistical methodological rigors in the design, conduct, analysis, and reporting of their work.

Degrees

PhD (Statistics), University of Alberta, 2005
BSc (Mathematics), University of Bucharest, Romania, 1999

Awards

Postdoctoral Fellowship Research award, Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, 2005-2007
F.S. Chia Ph.D. Scholarship Research award, University of Alberta, 1999-2003

Announcements

Currently accepting MSc students.

Courses

SPH 619 - Biostatistics II

Advanced biostatistical methods used to analyze epidemiologic data with an emphasis on multivariable regression. Topics include multiple regression, unconditional and conditional logistic regression and proportional hazards regression. Prerequisite: SPH 519 or consent of Instructor. Note: Credit may not be obtained for both PHS 698 and SPH 619.

Winter Term 2024

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Scholarly Activities

Research - Statistical methods for biomarker discovery based on complex high-dimensional biological data

Co-principal Investigator
funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research

Featured Publications

Modeling the shape of the dependency of airborne benzene concentration in the air on distance to primary oil and gas facilities.

Dinu, I., Chen Y., Burstyn, I.

Open Environmental Sciences. 2010 January;

Gene Set Analysis and Reduction.

Dinu I, Potter JD, Mueller T, Liu Q, Adewale AJ, Jhangri GS, Einecke G, Famulsky KS, Halloran PF, Yasui Y.

Briefings in Bioinformatics. 2008 January; 10 (1):24-34.

Two year survival, mental and motor outcomes after the Norwood procedure: a comparison between the MBTS and RVPA surgical modifications

Atallah J, Dinu I, Joffe A, Sauve RS, Dyck J, Ross DB, Rebeyka IM, Robertson CMT.

Circulation. 2008 January; 118 (14):1410-8