Category: department_news
2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium
Register now for the 2018 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Frontier Science and Research Technology Foundation’s Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. This year’s topic is: Data Science in Biomedical Research Featuring the … Continue reading “2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium”
Rose Traveling Fellowship Program
The Department of Epidemiology is now accepting applications for the Spring 2018 round of the Rose Traveling Fellowship Program in Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Biostatistics. The Rose Traveling Fellowship Program at the Harvard … Continue reading “Rose Traveling Fellowship Program”
Bias & Beer Journal Club – 2/7
Bias & Beer Journal Club Wednesday, February 7th at 6:30pm Faculty Lounge, Hoffman Labs, 20 Oxford St, Cambridge RSVP here Join HGWISE And HGWISE Guys for the first Bias & Beer discussion of the … Continue reading “Bias & Beer Journal Club – 2/7”
Boehringer Ingelheim Funds New Fellowships
The Department has recently received a $100K grant from Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, to fund two new student fellowships in biostatistics. PhD students receiving these scholarships will be co-mentored … Continue reading “Boehringer Ingelheim Funds New Fellowships”
Miguel Hernán on Big Data & Public Health
In the school’s latest podcast, Professor Miguel Hernán explains how vast amounts of information can be used to assess what works in medicine and public health. View transcript and listen to … Continue reading “Miguel Hernán on Big Data & Public Health”
NESS Colloquium Series with Michael Jordan, 1/31
Dr. Michael Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics The University of California, Berkeley On Computational Thinking, Inferential … Continue reading “NESS Colloquium Series with Michael Jordan, 1/31”
Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2
Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium on Data Science Hot Topics in Cancer Epidemiology Do Statins Increase the Survival of Cancer Patients? Presentations and panel discussion hosted by Lorelei Mucci & Miguel Hernán Friday, … Continue reading “Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2”
Rafael Irizarry Named New Chair at DFCI
Professor of Applied Statistics Rafael Irizarry will become the new Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, effective February 1, 2018. Rafa will succeed Giovanni … Continue reading “Rafael Irizarry Named New Chair at DFCI”
Susan Murphy Receives R.A. Fisher Award
Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Susan A. Murphy will receive the prestigious R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). She will deliver the … Continue reading “Susan Murphy Receives R.A. Fisher Award”
