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Thao Vu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor Research
Department of Biostatistics and Informatics
Center for Innovative Analysis & Design
Colorado School of Public Health
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13001 E 17th PI
Aurora, Colorado 80045, USA

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Thao Vu is an assistant professor - research in the Department of Biostatistics & Informatics and a faculty member in the Center for Innovative Design & Analysis. Dr. Vu has been involved in multiple collaborative research projects focusing on developing novel statistical approaches for analyzing multi-omic and spatially resolved single-cell imaging data.

Publications

  1. Vu, T., Godbole, S., Carrette, L., Maturin, L., George, O., Saba, L., & Kechris, K. (2025). Identification of Plasma Metabolites Responding to Oxycodone Exposure in Rats. Metabolites, 15(2), 95. DOI
  2. Konigsberg, I.†, Vu, T.†, Liu, W., Litkowski, L., Pratte, K., Banaei-Kashani, F., Lange, L., Bowler, R., & Kechris, K. (2024). Proteomic Networks and Related Genetic Variants Associated with Smoking and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. BMC Genomics, 25, 825. DOI
    † Joint first authors.
  3. Vu, T., Seal, S., Ghosh, T., Ahmadian, M., Wrobel, J., & Ghosh, D. (2023). FunSpace: A functional and spatial analytic approach to cell imaging data using entropy measures. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(9), e1011490.
  4. Vu, T., Litkowski, E. M., Liu, W., Pratte, K. A., Lange, L., Bowler, R. P., ... & Kechris, K. J. (2023). NetSHy: network summarization via a hybrid approach leveraging topological properties. Bioinformatics, 39(1), btac818.
  5. Vu, T., Xu, Y., Qiu, Y., & Powers, R. (2023). Shifting-corrected regularized regression for 1H NMR metabolomics identification and quantification. Biostatistics, 24(1), 140-160.
  6. Vu, T., Wrobel, J., Bitler, B. G., Schenk, E. L., Jordan, K. R., & Ghosh, D. (2022). SPF: a spatial and functional data analytic approach to cell imaging data. PLoS Computational Biology, 18(6), e1009486.
  7. Bhinderwala, F., Vu, T., Smith, T., Losacki, J., Marshal, D., Xu, Y., Morton, M., & Powers, R. (2022). Leveraging the HMBC to Facilitate Metabolite Identification. Analytical Chemistry, 94(47), 16308-16318.