Ondrej Blaha, PhD

Dr. Blaha is an Associate Research Scientist at Yale Center for Analytical Sciences (YCAS) with the primary appointment in the Department of Biostatistics. His research interests span clinical trials, specifically early phase, cluster randomized, and pragmatic trials with survival outcomes. Currently, his main research topics include: Additive models for cluster randomized trials; Master protocol designs; Early phase Bayesian designs; Information borrowing; Machine learning and AI; Pathway, differential, and coexpression analysis of sequencing, specifically proteogenomics data.

Ondrej is a director of Biostatistics Internship Program at YCAS, member of Shared Resources, and one of the core statisticians at Yale Cancer Center where he is responsible for grant preparation, design of experiments, database development, programming, analysis, dissemination of results, and supervision of oncology clinical trials, with focus mainly on Leukemia, Breast, Head and Neck, and Skin cancer. He mentors K-awardees, graduate students, early career collaborators, and participates in student's curriculum.

Dr. Blaha holds a Ph.D. in Biostatistics from LSU Health Sciences Center, M.Sc. in Biostatistics from Hasselt University, Belgium, and BC in General Mathematics from Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Before joining Yale University, he worked as a senior Biostatistician at Stanford University, School of Medicine.