Min Jin Ha, PhD
Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Sciences
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor (Tenure-track), Department of Biostatistics, Division of Basic Science Research, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2013 | University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, PHD, Biostatistics |
| 2007 | Seoul National University, Seoul, KOR, MS, Statistics |
| 2005 | Duksung Women's University, Seoul, KOR, BS, Statistics |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Regular Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center - UT Health Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2019 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2017 | Selected participant, ENAR |
| 2013 | ASA Student Paper Award, American Statistical Association |
| 2013 | BIOS Student Travel Award, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| 2012 | BIOS Student Travel Award, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill |
| 2012 | David P. Byar Young Investigator Travel Award, American Statistical Association |
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Liu Q, Ha MJ, Bhattacharyya R, Garmire L, Baladandayuthapani V. Network-Based Matching of Patients and Targeted Therapies for Precision Oncology. Pac Symp Biocomput 25:623-634, 2020. PMID: 31797633.
- Kettner NM, Vijayaraghavan S, Durak MG, Bui T, Kohansal M, Ha MJ, Liu B, Rao X, Wang J, Yi M, Carey JPW, Chen X, Eckols TK, Raghavendra AS, Ibrahim NK, Karuturi MS, Watowich SS, Sahin A, Tweardy DJ, Hunt KK, Tripathy D, Keyomarsi K. Combined inhibition of STAT3 and DNA repair in palbociclib-resistant ER-positive breast cancer. Clin Cancer Res 25(13):3996-4013, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30867218.
- Kim J, Do KA, Ha MJ, Peterson CB. Bayesian inference of hub nodes across multiple networks. Biometrics 75(1):172-182, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30051914.
- Ni Y, Stingo FC, Ha MJ, Akbani R, Baladandayuthapani V. Bayesian Hierarchical Varying-sparsity Regression Models with Application to Cancer Proteogenomics. J Am Stat Assoc 114(10):1-13, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 31178611.
- Ha MJ, Banerjee S, Akbani R, Liang H, Mills GB, Do KA, Baladandayuthapani V. Personalized Integrated Network Modeling of the Cancer Proteome Atlas. Sci Rep 8(1):14924, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30297783.
- Class CA, Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. iDINGO - Integrative Differential Network Analysis in Genomics with Shiny Application. Bioinformatics 34(7):1243-1245, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29194470.
- Yang Q, Chen LS, Ha MJ, Do KA, Neelapu SS, Gandhi V. Idelalisib impacts cell growth through inhibiting translation regulatory mechanisms in mantle cell lymphoma. Clin Cancer Res 23(1):181-192, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27342398.
- Hunt K, Karakas C, Ha MJ, Biernacka A, Yi M, Sahin A, Adjapong O, Hortobagyi GN, Bondy M, Thompson P, Cheung KL, Ellis IO, Bacus S, Symmans WF, Do KA, Keyomarsi K. Cytoplasmic Cylin E predicts recurrence in Patients with breast cancer. Clinical Cancer Research 16(2217), 2016.
- Do HJ, Lee YS, Ha MJ, Cho Y, Yi H, Hwang YJ, Hwang GS, Shin MJ. Beneficial effects of voglibose administration on body weight and lipid metabolism via gastrointestinal bile acid modification. Endocr J 63(8):691-702, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27349182.
- Ha MJ, Sun W, Xie J. PenPC: A two-step approach to estimate the skeletons of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs. Biometrics 72(1):146-55, 2016. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26406114.
- Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. DINGO: differential network analysis in genomics. Bioinformatics 31(21):3413-20, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26148744.
- Ha MJ, Baladandayuthapani V, Do KA. Prognostic gene signature identification using causal structure learning: applications in kidney cancer. Cancer Inform 14(Suppl 1):23-35, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25861215.
- Costello JC, Heiser LM, Georgii E, Gönen M, Menden MP, Wang NJ, Bansal M, Ammad-ud-din M, Hintsanen P, Khan SA, Mpindi JP, Kallioniemi O, Honkela A, Aittokallio T, Wennerberg K, NCI DREAM Community, Collins JJ, Gallahan D, Singer D, Saez-Rodriguez J, Kaski S, Gray JW, Stolovitzky G. A community effort to assess and improve drug sensitivity prediction algorithms. Nat Biotechnol 32(12):1202-12, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24880487.
- Ha MJ, Sun W. Partial correlation matrix estimation using ridge penalty followed by thresholding and re-estimation. Biometrics 70(3):765-73, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24845967.
- Wright FA, Sullivan PF, Brooks AI, Zou F, Sun W, Xia K, Madar V, Jansen R, Chung W, Zhou YH, Abdellaoui A, Batista S, Butler C, Chen G, Chen TH, D'Ambrosio D, Gallins P, Ha MJ, Hottenga JJ, Huang S, Kattenberg M, Kochar J, Middeldorp CM, Qu A, Shabalin A, Tischfield J, Todd L, Tzeng JY, van Grootheest G, Vink JM, Wang Q, Wang W, Wang W, Willemsen G, Smit JH, de Geus EJ, Yin Z, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI. Heritability and genomics of gene expression in peripheral blood. Nat Genet 46(5):430-7, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24728292.
- O'Shea SH, Schwarz J, Kosyk O, Ross PK, Ha MJ, Wright FA, Rusyn I. In vitro screening for population variability in chemical toxicity. Toxicol Sci 119(2):398-407, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20952501.
- Karakas C, Francis AM, Ha MJ, Wingate HF, Meena RA, Yi M, Rasaputra KS, Barrera AMG, Arun B, Do KA, Sahin A, Keyomarsi K, Hunt KK. Cytoplasmic Cyclin E Expression Predicts for Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Breast Cancer. Ann Surg. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31436549.
- Ha MJ, Sun W. Estimation of high-dimensional directed acyclic graphs with surrogate intervention. Biostatistics. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30596892.
Abstracts
- Meraz IM,Majidi M, Meng F, Shao R, Ha MJ, Neri S, Fang B, Lin SH, Tinkey PT, Shpall EJ, Morris J, Roth JA. Development of an improved humanized patient-derived xenograft, Hu-PDX mouse moidel for evaluation of antitumor immune response in lung cancer. AACR Annual Meeting, 2019.
- Thompson PA, Brewster A, Tsavachidis, Armstrong G, Do KA, Ha MJ, Gutierrez C, Symmans F, Bondy M. Cumulative copy number imbalances after neoadjuvant chemotherapy residual breast tumor is an independent predictor of relapse. American Association for Cancer Research, 2019.
- Sun H, Nassif B, Guray M, Ha MJ,Hunt KK, Keyomarsi K, Sahin A. Pathologic Discordance of African American and West African Breast Cancer Populations. United States & Canadian Academy of Pathology's 108th Annual Meeting in National Harbor, Maryland, March 16-21,2019, 2018.
- Hunt KK, Karakas C, Ha MJ, Biernacka A, Yi M, Sahin AA, Adjapong O, Hortobagyi GN, Bondy M, Thompson P, Cheung KL, Ellis IO, Bacus S, Symmans WF, Do KA, Keyomarsi K. Cytoplasmic Cyclin E Predicts Recurrence in Patients with Breast Cancer. Clin Cancer Res 23(12):2991-3002, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27881578.
Book Chapters
- George Tseng. eQTL and Directed Graphical Model. In: Integrating omics data: statistical and computational methods, 2015.
Grant & Contract Support
| Title: | Graph-based Bayesian analysis of Genomics and Proteomics Data |
| Funding Source: | NIH The Texas A&M University System |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Risk Prediction for ER Negative Breast Cancer Recurrence |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | SPORE: Developing New Rationale, Personalized Medicine for Lung Cancer |
| Funding Source: | NIH Subaward The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Cancer Center Support Grant - Biostatistics Resource Group (BRG) |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Biostatistician |
| Title: | MD Anderson Cancer Center Prostate Cancer SPORE. Core 1: Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Core |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Proteomic-based integrated subject-specific networks in cancer |
| Funding Source: | NIH/NCI |
| Role: | Principal Investigator |
| Title: | Acute Myeloid Leukemia in the Immunosuppressed Microenvironment - CPRIT MIRA Core 3 - Biostatistics/Bioinformatics |
| Funding Source: | Cancer Prevention & Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) |
| Role: | Collaborator |
| Title: | Risk prediction for ER negative breast cancer recurrence |
| Funding Source: | Baylor College of Medicine |
| Role: | Co-Investigator |
| Title: | Start Up and Retention Funds |
| Funding Source: | MDACC Internal Funding |
| Role: | Biostatistician |