Biography
Robert Reiss, MPH is a biostatistician specializing in data analysis for the development and evaluation of diagnostic assays with a focus on tuberculosis and COVID-19. He completed his master's degree at New York University, and currently works as a Research Associate at the Department of Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. Robert's research interests include biomarkers of tuberculosis, statistical classification and machine learning methods.
Key Impacts
Evaluation of urine lipoarabinomannan and host transcriptional molecular biomarkers for diagnosing TB in symptomatic individuals with negative culture results
uLAM and HRS assay performances were limited against exploratory microbiologic and clinical criteria based on longitudinal data. However, logistic regression results suggest the biomarkers are associated with TB status and imply that test performance could improve with additional optimization.
Source: Conference 2024