Research Program: Prevention & Etiology
Senior Research Fellow, Biostatistics Shared Resource

lindg001@umn.edu
612-624-2939 — office
Preferred method of contact: e-mail or phone

Prior to joining the Biostatistics Shared Resource at the Cancer Center, Lindgren was director of the Boen Biostatistics Consulting Laboratory at the University of Minnesota from 1996 to 2006.

Research Interests

Biostatistics applied to cancer research, including cancer treatment, prevention, and diagnosis; the application of survival analysis and quality of life measures in clinical trials.

Selected Publications

Stepanov I, Hecht SS, Lindgren B, Benowitz N, Jacob P, Wilson M. Relationship of human toenail nicotine, cotinine and 4-(Methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol to levels of these biomarkers in plasma and urine. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention 16(7): 1382-1386, 2007

Hecht SS, Carmella SG, Han S, Kenney PMJ, Wang M, Lindgren B, Wang Y, Lao Y, Hochalter B, Upadhyaya P. Investigation of the reaction of myosmine with sodium nitrite in vitro and in rats. Chemical Research in Toxicology 20(3): 543-549, 2007.

Ballen KK, Haley NR Kurtzberg J, Lane TA, Lindgren BR, Miller JP, Newman B, Rupp N, McCullough J. Outcomes of 122 diverse adult and pediatric cord blood transplant recipients from a large cord blood bank. Transfusion 12: 2063-2070, 2006.

Ballen KK, Kurtzberg J, Lane TA, Lindgren BR, Miller JP, Nagan, D, Newman B, Rupp N, Haley NR. Racial diversity with high nucleated cell counts and CD 34 counts achieved in national network of cord blood banks. Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation 10: 269-275; 2004.

Lasky LC, Lane T, Miller J, Lindgren B, Patterson H, Haley NR, Ballen K. In utero or ex utero cord blood collection—which is better? Transfusion 42: 1261-1267; 2002.

Reinartz JJ, George E, Lindgren BR, Niehans GA. Expression of p53, transforming growth factor alpha, epidermal growth factor receptor, and c-erb-2 in endometrial carcinoma and correlation with survival. Hum Pathol 25(10): 1075-1083, 1994.

Levitt SH, RA Potish, B Lindgren. Assessing the role of adjuvant radiation therapy in the treatment of breast cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology-Biology-Physics 15:247-250;1988.