The Biostatistics Student Consulting Center (BSCC) is celebrating one year of operation as a free student-to-student statistical consulting service staffed by biostatistics doctoral students and open to students conducting public health … Continue reading “Biostatistics Student Consulting Center: 2017 Year-End Update”
This has been an extremely busy year for the Harvard Catalyst Biostatistics Program as we are in the last year of funding on the current grant. In May, we submitted … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst: 2017 Year-End Update”
On June 8-9, 2016, the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop to discuss how scientific inference should be applied when working with … Continue reading “Scientific Inference and Big Data: Addressing the opportunities, risks, and challenges”
Isabel Fulcher and Ben Wong have both been selected to receive one of the American Statistical Society’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Awards. The awards are intended to … Continue reading “New Student & Postdoc Awards”
The Harvard University Data Science Initiative is seeking applications for its inaugural Harvard Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program for the 2017-2018 academic year. The normal duration of the Fellowship is … Continue reading “Harvard Data Science Postdoctoral Fellows Program”
The 2017 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Frontier Science Technology and Research Foundation Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium is honored to present “Contemporary Statistical Challenges in Clinical Research”, a tribute to Richard Gelber on … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium”
We are renewing efforts to get the Public Speaking Workshops off the ground this Spring Semester. The success of these meetings will depend upon your participation! Please come prepared to get up … Continue reading “Spring Public Speaking Workshops”
Biostatistics Program Seminar Series The Placebo Effect in Clinical Trials JANUARY 26 | 3:30-5:00pm Room G1 | Kresge Building | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Kathryn T. Hall, PhD, … Continue reading “The Placebo Effect in Clinical Trials”
Curtis Huttenhower and his team have received a great deal of press over the past week upon publishing their new study on the Boston subway system, “Urban Transit System Microbial Communities Differ … Continue reading “The Boston Subway Microbiome”
REGISTER NOW The Program in Quantitative Genomics will host its 10th Annual Conference, “Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis: Comprehensive Capture of Genetic Variants” on November 3-4, 2016 at the Joseph B. Martin … Continue reading “10th Annual PQG Conference”