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Khang Woo Ahn, PhD

Kwang Woo Ahn, PhD

Professor, Biostatistics and Chief Statistical Director of the CIBMTR

Locations

  • Biostatistics, Center for Cancer Discovery N1162

Contact Information

Education

PhD, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2008
MS, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 2005
BS, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 2003

Research Areas of Interest

  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial
  • Controlled Clinical Trial
  • Data Accuracy
  • Data Interpretation, Statistical
  • High Dimensional Data Analysis
  • Historical Data for Clinical Trials
  • Machine Learning
  • Missing Data
  • Right-Censored Data Analysis

Research Experience

  • Survival and competing risks data analysis, high dimensional data analysis, missing data, bioinformatics, personalized medicine

Research Interests

Dr. Kwang Woo Ahn is a professor of biostatistics at the Ϲ. He joined the division in the fall of 2008. He has been collaborating with various research groups at Ϲ including , Department of Physiology, and Department of Plastic Surgery. In CIBMTR, he is serving as PhD statistician of several working committees including Chronic Leukemia, Lymphoma, and Pediatric Cancer. He is involved in projects on hypertension, next generation sequencing data from Physiology. His current research interest includes survival analysis and variable selection.

Publications

  • (Liberio N, Allbee-Johnson M, Ahn KW, Moskop A, Phelan R, Shaw BE, Page KM, Schultz KR, Phillips CL, Mehta PA, Qayed M, Sharma A, Lipsitt AE, Symons H, Bolaños-Meade J, Kharbanda S, Dvorak CC, Kapoor N, Doherty EE, Chavan RS, Broglie L.) J Clin Oncol. 2026 Apr 10;44(11):1003-1015 PMID: 41740085 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105034223811 02/25/2026

  • (Kim S, Ahn KW, Logan B, Brazauskas R, Chen M, Pasquini M, Moskop A.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2026 Mar 17 PMID: 41856319 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105036156976 03/20/2026

  • (Wang Y, Kim S, Lin CW, Ahn KW.) Stat Med. 2026 Feb;45(3-5):e70413 PMID: 41640374 PMCID: PMC12973044 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105029504686 02/05/2026

  • (Rangarajan HG, Chellapandian D, Atshan R, Ahn KW, Kumar S, Knight TE, Leung W, Ganguly S, Williams KM, Shah NN, Bhatt NS, Lust H, Prestidge T, Brown VI, Hayashi RJ, Choe M, Saad A, Bidgoli A, Thakar MS, Wirk B, MacMillan ML, Lalefar NR, Hematti P, Schultz KR, Phillips CL, Mehta PA, Qayed M, Sharma A, Broglie L, Satwani P.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Dec 28 PMID: 41468926 PMCID: PMC12892929 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105028756101 12/31/2025

  • (Nadiminti KV, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Bezerra E, Chen A, Ganguly S, Gergis U, Hashmi H, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Kuruvilla J, Lekakis L, Locke FL, Murthy H, Mousthafa MA, Perales MA, Pophali P, Riedell PA, Shah NN, Wang T, Pasquini M, Hamadani M, Turtle CJ, Herrera AF, Shadman M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Dec;31(12):1000.e1-1000.e11 PMID: 40754223 PMCID: PMC12718520 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105019071503 08/04/2025

  • (Spellman SR, Xu K, Oloyede T, Ahn KW, Akhtar OS, Bolon YT, Broglie L, Bloomquist J, Bupp C, Chen M, Devine SM, Jurdi NE, Hamadani M, Hengen M, Huppler AH, Jaglowski S, Kuxhausen M, Lee SJ, Moskop A, Page KM, Pasquini MC, Pérez WS, Phelan R, Rizzo D, Saber W, Stefanski HE, Steinert P, Tuschl E, Visotcky A, Vogel R, Auletta JJ, Shaw BE, Allbee-Johnson M.) Transplant Cell Ther. 2025 Oct 07 PMID: 41027557 PMCID: PMC12606686 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105018107118 10/01/2025

  • (Gauthier J, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Badawy S, Cairo MS, Delgado J, Grover N, Haverkos B, de Lima M, Malone A, Mussetti A, Nieto Y, Pawarode A, Pearson L, Solh M, Sureda A, Tun AM, Wudhikarn K, Yamshon S, Shadman M, Turtle CJ, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Am J Hematol. 2025 Oct;100(10):1792-1802 PMID: 40785644 PMCID: PMC12608806 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105012974565 08/11/2025

  • (Thiruvengadam SK, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Hertzberg M, Epperla N, Metheny L, Hong S, Jain T, Aljurf M, Beitinjaneh A, Vaughn J, Gopal A, Iqbal M, Wirk B, Manjappa S, Oliver C, Mohty R, Shadman M, Turtle C, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Am J Hematol. 2025 Oct;100(10):1803-1812 PMID: 40762207 PMCID: PMC12582634 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105012595303 08/05/2025

  • (Hossain NM, Ahn KW, Patel J, Lian Q, Bilal Abid M, Al Nughmush A, Bacher U, Bi X, Hashmi SK, Hilal T, Husnain M, Khimani F, Maziarz RT, Modi D, Ram R, Rizzieri D, Sica RA, Steinberg A, Vij R, Shadman M, Turtle C, Hamadani M, Herrera AF.) Br J Haematol. 2025 Sep;207(3):1011-1018 PMID: 40693472 PMCID: PMC12705125 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105011357932 07/23/2025

  • (Perales MA, Awan FT, Boumendil A, Patel J, Castagna L, Angelucci E, Finel H, Kulagin A, Glass B, Corradini P, Herrera AF, Blaise D, Kharfan-Dabaja MA, Halahleh K, Ahmed S, Martínez C, Giebel S, Montoto S, Jones RJ, Ahmed N, Lynch RC, De Lima MJ, Shadman M, Sauter CS, Ahn KW, Hamadani M, Bazarbachi A, Sureda A.) Blood. 2025 Aug 21;146(8):1011-1029 PMID: 40623049 PMCID: PMC12530899 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-105011651420 07/07/2025

  • (Juan W, Ahn KW, Chen YG, Lin CW.) Bioengineering (Basel). 2025 Jul 31;12(8) PMID: 40868342 PMCID: PMC12383624 08/30/2025

  • (Cho Y, Kim S, Ahn KW.) Stat Neerl. 2025 Feb;79(1) PMID: 41048830 PMCID: PMC12490781 10/06/2025