Jiangang "Jason" Liao, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Jiangang "Jason" Liao, PhD
Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Penn State Center for Research on Tobacco and Health
Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Penn State Center for Research on Tobacco and Health
Scientific Program:Next-Generation Therapies
Clinical Trials
PSCI: 24-010: Evaluate Safety and Efficacy of Daily oral Angelica gigas Nakai (AGN)-INM176 in Prostate Patients with Rising Plasma PSA (Phase I/II trial)
Micro/nano technology for extracellular vesicle isolation and towards non-invasive pancreatic cancer diagnosis
Recent Publications
2025
Liao, JG 2025, 'An Effective and Small Sample-Size Valid Confidence Interval for Isotonic Dose–Response Curves by Inverting a Partial Likelihood Ratio Test', American Statistician, vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 236-246. https://doi.org/10.1080/00031305.2024.2407478
Chen, KM, Krebs, NM, Sun, YW, Sun, D, Liao, J, Reinhart, L, Krzeminski, J, Amin, S, Stoner, G, Mallery, SR & El-Bayoumy, K 2025, 'Inhibition of benzo[a]pyrene-induced DNA adduct in buccal cells of smokers by black raspberry lozenges', Carcinogenesis, vol. 46, no. 1, bgae067. https://doi.org/10.1093/carcin/bgae067
Liao, L, Yuan, H, Selbst, D, Casaletto, E, Liao, J & Lauritsen, CG 2025, 'Mexiletine dosing and tolerability in refractory chronic migraine: Insights from post-lidocaine infusion treatment', Cephalalgia Reports, vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1177/25158163241313123
2024
Morales-Ghinaglia, N, He, F, Calhoun, SL, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, J, Liao, D, Bixler, EO & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2024, 'Circadian misalignment impacts the association of visceral adiposity with metabolic syndrome in adolescents', Sleep, vol. 47, no. 1, zsad262. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsad262
Singh, R, Atha, R, Lenker, KP, Calhoun, SL, Liao, J, He, F, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, D, Bixler, EO, Jackson, CL & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2024, 'Racial/ethnic disparities in the trajectories of insomnia symptoms from childhood to young adulthood', Sleep, vol. 47, no. 5. https://doi.org/10.1093/sleep/zsae021
Moss, JL, Entenman, J, Stoltzfus, K, Liao, J, Onega, T, Reiter, PL, Klesges, LM, Garrow, G & Ruffin, MT 2024, 'Self-sampling tools to increase cancer screening among underserved patients: a pilot randomized controlled trial', JNCI Cancer Spectrum, vol. 8, no. 1, pkad103. https://doi.org/10.1093/jncics/pkad103
Zhang, R, Shang, Y, Cioccio, J, Rakszawski, K, Nickolich, M, Ehmann, C, Inoue, Y, Naik, S, Rybka, W, Zheng, H, Mierski, J, Silar, B, Liao, J, Greiner, R, Brown, V, Claxton, D, Ning, J, Zhou, S, Mineishi, S, Minagawa, K & Shike, H 2024, 'Sensitivity and Specificity of Chimerism Tests in Predicting Leukemia Relapse Using Increasing Mixed Chimerism', Journal of Molecular Diagnostics, vol. 26, no. 12, pp. 1159-1170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmoldx.2024.09.003
Chen, KM, Sun, YW, Krebs, NM, Reinhart, L, Sun, D, Liao, J, Cook, R, Bond, PE, Mallery, SR & El-Bayoumy, K 2024, 'The Effects of Black Raspberry as a Whole Food–Based Approach on Biomarkers of Oxidative Stress in Buccal Cells and Urine of Smokers', Cancer Prevention Research, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 157-167. https://doi.org/10.1158/1940-6207.CAPR-23-0153
2023
Liao, J 2023, 'A new Bayesian lasso and ridge regression with a practically meaningful parameterization and a simple weakly informative prior', Stat, vol. 12, no. 1, e540. https://doi.org/10.1002/sta4.540
Morales-Ghinaglia, N, Larsen, M, He, F, Calhoun, SL, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, J, Liao, D, Bixler, EO & Fernandez-Mendoza, J 2023, 'Circadian Misalignment Impacts the Association of Visceral Adiposity with Elevated Blood Pressure in Adolescents', Hypertension, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 861-871. https://doi.org/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.122.20398
Hayman, IR, Temple, RM, Burgess, CK, Ferguson, M, Liao, J, Meyers, C & Sample, CE 2023, 'New insight into Epstein-Barr virus infection using models of stratified epithelium', PLoS pathogens, vol. 19, no. 1, e1011040. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1011040
2022
LeBlanc, FR, Hasanali, ZS, Stuart, A, Shimko, S, Sharma, K, Leshchenko, VV, Parekh, S, Fu, H, Zhang, Y, Martin, MM, Kester, M, Fox, T, Liao, J, Loughran, TP, Evans, J, Pu, JJ, Spurgeon, SE, Aladjem, MI & Epner, EM 2022, 'Combined epigenetic and immunotherapy for blastic and classical mantle cell lymphoma', Oncotarget, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 986-1002. https://doi.org/10.18632/oncotarget.28258
Lin, W, Hobkirk, AL, Zhu, J, Krebs, NM, Hayes, JE, Richie, JP, Liao, J, Horn, K, Foulds, J & Muscat, JE 2022, 'Effect of menthol on nicotine reduction: Pooled results from two double-blind randomized controlled trials', Brain Research Bulletin, vol. 189, pp. 131-138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.brainresbull.2022.08.019
Sinha, I, Goel, R, Bitzer, ZT, Trushin, N, Liao, J & Sinha, R 2022, 'Evaluating electronic cigarette cytotoxicity and inflammatory responses in vitro', Tobacco Induced Diseases, vol. 20, no. 5, 45. https://doi.org/10.18332/tid/147200
Midya, V, Liao, J, Gennings, C, Colicino, E, Teitelbaum, SL, Wright, RO & Valvi, D 2022, 'Quantifying the Effect Size of Exposure-Outcome Association Using δ-Score: Application to Environmental Chemical Mixture Studies', Symmetry, vol. 14, no. 10, 1962. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14101962
Foulds, J, Veldheer, S, Pachas, G, Hrabovsky, S, Hameed, A, Allen, SI, Cather, C, Azzouz, N, Yingst, J, Hammett, E, Modesto, J, Krebs, NM, Lester, C, Trushin, N, Reinhart, L, Wasserman, E, Zhu, J, Liao, J, Muscat, JE, Richie, JP & Evins, AE 2022, 'The effects of reduced nicotine content cigarettes on biomarkers of nicotine and toxicant exposure, smoking behavior and psychiatric symptoms in smokers with mood or anxiety disorders: A double-blind randomized trial', PloS one, vol. 17, no. 11 November, e0275522. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0275522
Fernandez-Mendoza, J, Lenker, KP, Calhoun, SL, Qureshi, M, Ricci, A, Bourchtein, E, He, F, Vgontzas, AN, Liao, J, Liao, D & Bixler, EO 2022, 'Trajectories of Insomnia Symptoms From Childhood Through Young Adulthood', Pediatrics, vol. 149, no. 3, e2021053616. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2021-053616
2021
Krebs, NM, Zhu, J, Wasserman, E, Kuprewicz, R, Martinez, DJ, Veldheer, S, Livelsberger, C, Modesto, J, Reinhart, L, Trushin, N, Reilly, SM, Liao, J, Fazzi, A, Bascom, R, Richie, JP, Foulds, J, Horn, K & Muscat, JE 2021, 'Switching to Progressively Reduced Nicotine Content Cigarettes in Smokers with Low Socioeconomic Status: A Double-Blind Randomized Clinical Trial', Nicotine and Tobacco Research, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 992-1001. https://doi.org/10.1093/ntr/ntaa247
Midya, V & Liao, J 2023, 'Systematic deviation in mean of log bayes factor: Implication and application', Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, vol. 52, no. 10, pp. 3209-3218. https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2021.1970768
Liao, J & Rohde, C 2022, 'Variance reduction in the inverse probability weighted estimators for the average treatment effect using the propensity score', Biometrics, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 660-667. https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.13454