Bhramar Mukherjee

Bhramar Mukherjee is an Indian-American biostatistician, data scientist, professor and researcher. She is the Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics at Yale University.

Mukherjee's research has been focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, environmental health and disease risk assessment.

Mukherjee is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and the National Academy of Medicine.

Education Mukherjee was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She received her B.Sc. in statistics from Presidency College in Kolkata in 1994 and her M. Stat from Indian Statistical Institute in 1996. In the late 1990s, she moved to the United States, where she received her M.S. in mathematical statistics in 1999 and then her Ph.D. in statistics in 2001, both from Purdue University.

Career After completing her Ph.D., Mukherjee joined University of Florida as an assistant professor of Statistics and taught there until 2006, when she left to join the University of Michigan as the John G. Searle Assistant Professorship. She became associate professor in 2009, full professor in 2013 and was awarded the John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professorship at the University of Michigan in 2015. She was appointed the associate chair of Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan in 2014 and became the first woman chair of the department in 2018.

In 2016, Mukherjee was appointed the associate director of cancer control and population studies at University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center. She became the newly appointed associate director for Quantitative Data Sciences in 2019.

In 2024, Mukherjee left University of Michigan to join Yale University, where she was appointed the Anna MR Lauder Professor of Biostatistics and the inaugural Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity at the Yale School of Public Health.

Mukherjee was announced as president-elect for Eastern North American Region (ENAR) of the International Biometric Society (IBS) in 2025.

Research and work Mukherjee's research has primarily focused on the development and application of statistical methods in epidemiology, analysis of observational data and disease risk assessment. In 2018, Mukherjee and her colleagues conducted a phenome-wide association study to see if the polygenic risk scores for different cancers are associated with multiple phenotypes. Their study showed that polygenic risk scores can help in stratifying the risk of different cancers in patients.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Mukherjee and her study team worked on modeling the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in India.

Awards and honors 2011 – Elected member, The International Statistical Institute 2012 – Fellow, American Statistical Association 2016 – Gertrude Cox Award, Washington Statistical Society 2017 – Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022 – Elected member, The National Academy of Medicine. 2023 – Karl E Peace Award for statistical contribution towards betterment of society awarded by the American Statistical Association 2023 – Jerome Sacks award for outstanding cross-disciplinary research awarded by the National Institute of Statistical Sciences 2023 – John D Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professorship, University of Michigan 2024 – Marvin Zelen Award for Leadership in Statistical Sciences, Harvard Biostatistics 2025 – Elected fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics 2025 – Elected member, Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering

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