EDUCATION

• Ph.D. (Statistics) 2003, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• M.S. (Statistics) 1998, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• B.S. (Statistics & Mathematics) 1997, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Clinical trials methodology
• Microarray data analysis
• Competing risks
• Bootstrap methods

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Innocenti F, Undevia SD, Iyer L, Chen PX, Das S, Kocherginsky M, Karrison T, Janisch L, Ramirez J, Rudin CM, Vokes EE, Ratain MJ. Genetic variants in the UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1A1 gene predict the risk of severe neutropenia of irinotecan. J Clin Oncol 22:1382-1388, 2004.
• Armato SG 3rd, Oxnard GR, MacMahon H, Vogelzang NJ, Kindler HL, Kocherginsky M, Starkey A. Measurement of mesothelioma on thoracic CT scans: a comparison of manual and computer-assisted techniques. Med Phys 31:1105-1115, 2004.
• Kimchi E, Posner MC, Park JO, Darga T, Kocherginsky M, Karrison T, Hart J, Smith KD, Mezhir JJ, Weichselbaum RR, Khodarev NN. Progression of Barrett's metaplasia to adenocarcinoma is associated with the suppression of the transcriptional programs of epidermal differentiation. Cancer Research, 2005 Apr 15;65(8):3146-54.
• Sahoo S, Brickley DR, Kocherginsky M, Conzen SD. Coordinate expression of the PI3-kinase downstream effectors serum and glucocorticoid-induced kinase (SGK-1) and Akt-1 in human breast cancer. Eur J Cancer 2005;41(17):2754-9.
• Armato SG, Oxnard GR, Kocherginsky M, Vogelzang NJ, Kindler HL, MacMahon H. Evaluation of semiautomated measurements of mesothelioma tumor thickness on CT scans. Academic Radiology 2005;12(10):1301-1309.
• Vander Griend DJ, Kocherginsky M, Hickson JA, Stadler WM, Lin A, Rinker-Schaeffer CW. Suppression of Metastatic Colonization by the Context-Dependent Activation of the c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinase Kinases JNKK1/MKK4 and MKK7. Cancer Research 2005; 65(23):10984-91.
• Kocherginsky M, He X, Mu Y. Practical confidence intervals for regression quantiles. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 14:41-55, 2005.
• Lee S, Chen J, Zhou G, Shi RZ, Bouffard GG, Kocherginsky M, Ge X, Sun M, Jayathilaka N, Kim YC, Emmanuel N, Bohlander SK, Minden M, Kline J, Ozer O, Larson RA, Lebeau MM, Green ED, Trent J, Karrison T, Liu PP, Wang SM, Rowley JD. Gene expression profiles in acute myeloid leukemia with common translocations using SAGE. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Jan 24;103(4):1030-5.
• Artz AS, Kocherginsky M, Van Besien K. Order of patient entry influences outcome for metastatic renal cell cancer after non-myeloablative allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Br J Haematol. 2006 Mar;132(6):747-54.
• Armato SG 3rd, Ogarek JL, Starkey A, Vogelzang NJ, Kindler HL, Kocherginsky M, Macmahon H. Variability in mesothelioma tumor response classification. Am J Roentgenol. 2006 Apr;186(4):1000-6.

OTHER ACTVITIES

• Member, Clinical Trials Review Committee, University of Chicago Cancer Research Center