Dr Damjan Vukcevic
Research Officer
Data Science
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Damjan Vukcevic is a statistician and data scientist, specialising in statistical genetics. He completed a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree at the University of Melbourne in 2004, including an Honours project in bioinformatics with Professor Terry Speed. He was then awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he completed a DPhil in statistical genetics with Professor Peter Donnelly. Dr Vukcevic has contributed to a number of important genetic studies, including the landmark multi-disease genome-wide association study by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, published in Nature in 2007. This received a number of awards, including Research Leader of the Year from Scientific American. Dr Vukcevic has experience working in both an academic and non-academic environment, with a strong grounding in statistical theory, computation and practical data analysis.
Research Interest
Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Publications
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Vukcevic D, Carlin JB, King L, Hall GL, Ponsonby AL, Sly PD, Vuillermin P, Ranganathan S. The influence of sighing respirations on infant lung function measured using multiple breath washout gas mixing techniques. Physiological reports. 2015 Apr 6;3(4):e12347.
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Vukcevic D, Traherne JA, Næss S, Ellinghaus E, Kamatani Y, Dilthey A, Lathrop M, Karlsen TH, Franke A, Moffatt M, Cookson W. Imputation of KIR types from SNP variation data. The American Journal of Human Genetics. 2015 Oct 1;97(4):593-607.
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Mahar RK, Vukcevic D, King L, Carlin JB, Ranganathan S. Lack of transparency in software used to analyze multiple breath washout data. Pediatric pulmonology. 2016 Nov 1;51(11):1108-10.
