George Wright, Ph.D.

Biography

Dr. George W. Wright has been a member of the Biometric Research Program since he received his doctorate in Statistics from the University of Maryland in 2000. His area of expertise is in the analysis of high dimensional genomic data as it relates to Cancer, with a particular emphasis on non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.  He has experience in the analysis of a multitude of data types including gene expression, copy number variation, methylation, CRISPR profiling, and single cell analysis.  
His has a very close ongoing collaboration with Dr Louis Staudt, Chief of the Lymphoid Malignancies Branch (CCR/NCI), and with the members of the Lymphoma\Leukemia Molecular Profiling Project. These collaborations have resulted in numerous publications resulting in his being recognized as a highly cited researcher by the Web of Science in 2019. He has also developed several diagnostic tools including the Lymph2CX, and Lymph3CX, and LymphGen predictors for the subclassification of Diffuse Large B-cell Lymphoma (DLBCL), and the MCL35 proliferation Assay for Mantle Cell Lymphoma (MCL).