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Bhramar Mukherjee

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Bhramar Mukherjee
Born
Kolkata, India
Occupation(s)Biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher.
TitleAnna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics
Academic background
Alma materPresidency College (BSc)
Indian Statistical Institute (M.Stat)
Purdue University (MS, PhD)
ThesisOptimal designs for estimating the path of a stochastic process. (2001)
Doctoral advisorWilliam J. Studden
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Michigan Yale University

Bhramar Mukherjee is an Indian-American biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher. She is the Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University.

Mukherjee's research has been focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, environmental health and disease risk assessment.

Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the National Academy of Medicine.

Education

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Mukherjee was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She received her B.Sc. in statistics from Presidency College in Kolkata in 1994 and her M. Stat from Indian Statistical Institute in 1996. In the late 1990s, she moved to the United States, where she received her M.S. in mathematical statistics in 1999 and then her Ph.D. in statistics in 2001, both from Purdue University.[1]

Career

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After completing her Ph.D., Mukherjee joined University of Florida as an assistant professor of Statistics and taught there until 2006, when she left to join the University of Michigan as the John G. Searle Assistant Professorship. She became associate professor in 2009, full professor in 2013 and was awarded the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan in 2015. She was appointed the associate chair of Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan in 2014 and became the first woman chair of the department in 2018.[2]

In 2016, Mukherjee was appointed the associate director of cancer control and population studies at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center.[3] She became the newly appointed associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences in 2019.[4]

In 2024, Mukherjee left University of Michigan to join Yale University, where she was appointed the Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at the Yale School of Public Health.[5]

Mukherjee was announced as president-elect for Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS) in 2025.[6]

Research and work

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Mukherjee's research has primarily focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, analysis of observational data and disease risk assessment.[2]

One of the focal points of Mukherjee's research is to understand how the interaction between genes and environment increases or decreases cancer risk. In this area, she has studied how lifestyle factors such as diet and physical activity coupled with the genetic makeup of an individual impact their cancer risk.[7] In 2018, Mukherjee and her colleagues conducted a phenome-wide association study to see if the polygenic risk scores for different cancers are associated with multiple phenotypes. Their study showed that polygenic risk scores can help in stratifying the risk of different cancers in patients.[8]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mukherjee and her study team worked on modeling the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in India.[9]

Awards and honors

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Selected articles

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  • Sinha, S.; Mukherjee, B.; Ghosh, M.; Mallick, B. K.; Raymond, J. C. (2005). "Bayesian semi-parametric analysis of matched case-control studies with missing exposure". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 100: 591–601. doi:10.1198/016214504000001411.
  • Mukherjee, B.; Chatterjee, N. (2008). "Exploiting gene-environment independence for analysis of case-control studies: An empirical-Bayes type shrinkage estimator to trade off between bias and efficiency". Biometrics. 64 (3): 685–694. doi:10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00953.x. PMID 18162111.
  • Kastrinos, F.; Mukherjee, B.; Tayob, N.; Sparr, J.; Raymond, V. M.; Wang, F.; Bandipalliam, P.; Stoffel, E. M.; Gruber, S. B.; Syngal, S. (2009). "The Risk of Pancreatic Cancer in Lynch Syndrome". Journal of the American Medical Association. 302 (16): 1790–1795. doi:10.1001/jama.2009.1529. PMC 4091624. PMID 19861671.
  • Mukherjee, B.; DeLancey, J. O.; Raskin, L. (2012). "Risk of Non-Melanoma Cancers in CDKN2A Mutation Carriers". The Journal of the National Cancer Institute. 104 (12): 953–956. doi:10.1093/jnci/djs221. PMC 3379723. PMID 22534780.
  • Chen, C.; Haupert, S. R.; Zimmermann, L.; Shi, X.; Fritsche, L. G.; Mukherjee, B. (November 2022). "Global Prevalence of Post-Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Condition or Long COVID: A Meta-Analysis and Systematic Review". Journal of Infectious Diseases. 226 (9): 1593–1607. doi:10.1093/infdis/jiac136. PMC 9047189. PMID 35429399.
  • Beesley, L. J.; Mukherjee, B. (2022). "Statistical inference for association studies using electronic health records: handling both selection bias and outcome misclassification". Biometrics. 78 (1): 214–226. doi:10.1111/biom.13400. hdl:2027.42/172018. PMID 33179768.
  • Kundu, R.; Shi, X.; Morrison, J.; Barrett, J.; Mukherjee, B. (May 2024). "A framework for understanding selection bias in real-world healthcare data". Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society. 187 (3): 606–635. doi:10.1093/jrsssa/qnae039. PMC 11393555. PMID 39281782.

References

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  1. ^ "Bhramar Mukherjee, Ph.D, MS". Yale University. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  2. ^ a b c "Dr. Bhramar Mukherjee to Receive the 2024 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award!". Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  3. ^ "Indian-Origin Researcher to lead US University's Cancer Centre". The Indian Panorama. 4 December 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  4. ^ "Bhramar Mukherjee to Lead Data Science and Data Equity at Yale School of Public Health". University of Michigan School of Public Health. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  5. ^ "Award-Winning Statistician Joins Yale School of Public Health Leadership". Yale School of Public Health. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  6. ^ "Bhramar Mukherjee Selected as ENAR President-Elect". Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  7. ^ "Cancer Bytes – How U-M researchers are using big data to transform cancer care" (PDF). Rogel Cancer Center. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  8. ^ "Polygenic Risk Scores Show Utility for Stratifying Disease Risk". 21 February 2018.
  9. ^ "It is the coronavirus that is killing the economy, not just the lockdown". The Times of India. 12 July 2020.
  10. ^ "Individual Members". Archived from the original on 2017-07-29. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  11. ^ "Bhramar Mukherjee". American Statistical Association. March 2018. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  12. ^ "2015–2016 WSS Annual Report" (PDF). Washington Statistical Society Newsletter. September 2016. p. 12. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  13. ^ "Historic Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  14. ^ "Bhramar Mukherjee". National Academy of Medicine. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  15. ^ "Karl E. Peace Award for Outstanding Statistical Contributions for the Betterment of Society". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  16. ^ "Celebrating NISS Awards 2023". 6 August 2023.
  17. ^ Kelton, Katie (20 July 2023). "Regents approve Distinguished University Professors for 2023". The University Record. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
  18. ^ "Professor Bhramar Mukherjee". Churchill College, Cambridge. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
  19. ^ "Congratulations to the 2025 Class of IMS Fellows!". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
  20. ^ "36 Elected to Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering". Connecticut by the Numbers. 2 April 2025. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
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