Sandra Safo

Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, School of Public Health

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226, Suite 200 University Office Plaza
2221 University Avenue Se
Minneapolis, MN 55414

Assistant Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, School of Public Health

Research

Biography

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2022
NIH Outstanding Investigator Award ( MIRA ESI), 2021-2026
NIH Standing Member, ASPA, 2022-2026
McKnight Land-Grant Professor, 2023-2025
UMN CTSI KL2 Scholar
Emory University BIRCWH Scholar, 2016-2017
PRIDE Cardiovascular Genetics Epidemiology Scholar, Washington University, St Louis, 2016-2018

2021–2026, NIH NIGMS, "Statistical and Machine Learning Methods to Address Biomedical Challenges for Integrating Multi-view Data," Principal Investigator
2022-2027, NIH NIMH, "The tale of two pandemics: Understanding racial and ethnic disparities from the collision of HIV and COVID-19 in the U.S.," Subcontract PI
2021-2026, NIH NINDS, "Circuit-based deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease", Co-Investigator
2021-2025, NIH NHLBI "Clinical and immunologic factors underlying heart failure with preserved ejection fraction among persons with HIV in South Africa ", Co-Investigator
2021–2023, Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research, "Comprehensive Assessment Of Signal Transduction Pathways In Sarcoidosis," Co-Investigator
2021–2026, NIH, NINDS "Understanding the long term impact of COVID-19 on the brain through advanced MR imaging and spectroscopy," Co-Investigator
2018-2021, UMN CTSI, “Integrative Omics Methods to Assess Genomic and Metabolic Influences on Subclinical CVD in HIV-Infected Men and Women”, Principal Investigator

Safo S E, Li S, Long Q. “Integrative analysis of transcriptomic and metabolomic data via sparse canonical correlation analysis with incorporation of biological information” Biometrics, 2017
Jackson S L, Safo S, Staimez L R, Long Q, Rhee M K, Cunningham SA, Olson D E, Tomolo A M, Ramakrishnan U, Narayan K M, Phillips L S. “Reduced Cardiovascular Disease Incidence With a National Lifestyle Change Program” American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2017
Sandra E. Safo, Jeongyoun Ahn “General sparse multi-class linear discriminant analysis”, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2016

Data Science Research Interests