Assistant professor
Max Rady College of Medicine
Community Health Sciences
Room 351, 753 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0T6
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University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada, R3T 2N2
Max Rady College of Medicine
Community Health Sciences
Room 351, 753 McDermot Avenue
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Manitoba R3E 0T6
Research associate – Biostatistical Consultant, Centre for Healthcare Innovation (CHI)
My research in the field of Biostatistics falls into two main themes: methods in statistical genetics/ bioinformatics, and models of epidemic spread. In genetics, I am interested in devising efficient methods to analyze –omics datasets with the aim of discovering molecular signatures of disease in genes and their pathways. In particular, my focus is on combining information from a large number of tests to improve power to detect associations in designs that have small sample or effect sizes. In infectious diseases, I have been investigating how respiratory pathogens spread over network-based models of the population, and am currently leading funded research to predict COVID-19 case counts.
Dr. Romanescu is an assistant professor in community health sciences at the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Manitoba. He did his post-doctoral training at the Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, where he developed models for genetic association in familial breast cancer.
In January 2020, he joined the Data Science platform at Centre for Healthcare Innovation as consulting biostatistician with the Biostatistics Group. In this capacity, he maintains diverse collaborations with researchers in the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, as well as with external clients.
Currently, Dr. Romanescu is interested in methods that support statistical inference in genetic datasets. This includes procedures for multiple hypothesis testing, as well as inference in computationally complex problems in bioinformatics, such as gene set enrichment analysis. These methods can be applied to all types of data (genotyping, sequencing, expression, etc.) from a variety of conditions.
Visit Razvan Romanescu's ORCID profile for a complete listing.
Community Health Sciences
Max Rady College of Medicine
Room S113 - 750 Bannatyne Avenue
University of Manitoba (Bannatyne campus)
Winnipeg, MB R3E 0W3 Canada