Marc Henrion

I am a reader (associate professor) in biostatistics at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine but I am based in Blantyre, Malawi where I lead the Data Science and Computational Modelling Unit at the Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Research Programme (MLW).
Previously, I have worked as a postdoctoral fellow and bioinformatician in Rui Chang's lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York, USA.
Previously to that, I was a postdoc and bioinformatics officer in Richard Houlston's group at The Institute of Cancer Research in London, UK.
I am a former PhD student of David J. Hand and Axel Gandy at the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, UK.

Contact me:
marc.henrion@lstmed.ac.uk

Research Interests

Applied biostatistical research, with a specific interest in the selection of variables and functional forms for multivariable analysis. I am a member of the STRATOS Initiative Topic Group 2.

Statistical methods for the design & analysis of randomised clinical trials and more pragmatic intervention studies.

Biostatistical modelling and bioinformatic analyses, particularly genetic epidemiology (e.g. GWAS, eQTL, DE, survival analysis, ...), gene network reconstruction (e.g. Bayesian and predictive networks, key driver / hub gene analyses, ...), latent variable modelling (e.g. latent Markov models for multiple diagnostics problems, structural equation models, ...), classification, regression and prediction (e.g. Gaussian copula models, biomarker discovery, ...) and statistical & computational methods and tools for the analysis and / or visualisation of genetic or epi-genetic datasets (DNA-, RNA-, ChIP-seq, Hi-C, ...).

Classification & Anomaly Detection - in particular for large, medium- to high-dimensional datasets, such as digital sky surveys, or -omics (transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic etc.) datasets.