D​ebashis Ghosh is Professor and Chair of th​e Department of Biostatistics at the University of Colorado School of Public Health. Prior to arriving at CU Anschutz, Ghosh was previously on the faculty of the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Michigan and in the Department of Statistics at Penn State. He has research interests in the area of statistical genomics, omics data integration, survival analysis, biomarker evaluation and more recently, causal inference modelling. He has won a wide variety of awards, including election as a Fellow of the ASA in 2012 and receiving the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2013. He has also served as chair of the Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study Section for NIH.