Colin Begg (statistician)

Colin B. Begg is a Scottish biostatistician and epidemiologist. He is an attending biostatistician at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.^[1] He serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Clinical Trials.^[2] He has conducted research on the role of BRCA genetic variants in the development of breast cancer,^[3][4] as well as racial disparities in cancer survival rates in the United States.^[5]

Colin B. Begg
Nationality	Scottish
Alma mater	University of Glasgow
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics, epidemiology
Institutions	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Thesis	Statistical diagnosis  (1976)
Doctoral advisor	John Aitchison

Begg was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996.^[6]