Now in its 9th year, the Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG) held another successful conference in November on Single Cell Genomics. Approximately 130 people gathered for scientific presentations by keynote speakers George … Continue reading “PQG Conference: Single-Cell Genomics”
The Summer Program was another great success this year, as the Department hosted 10 undergraduate students, 2 post-baccalaureate interns, and 5 visiting faculty in an effort to increase the presence of underrepresented … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics”
This fall, the Department launched the Career Development Series (CDS), which provides Biostatistics students and post-docs with professional skills training, leadership coaching, networking opportunities, and perspectives on career paths. In … Continue reading “New Career Development Series”
Working with Frontier Science and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, the Department organized a special Memorial Service for Marvin Zelen on May 22. As part of the … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen’s Memorial Event”
This year we received an extraordinarily generous gift from Fong Wang Clow ’89, given in honor of her mentor Professor Nan Laird’s retirement. Since supporting our doctoral program remains the Department’s primary fundraising challenge, … Continue reading “Giving Back – New Funds”
In addition to our hugely successful alumni reception at JSM each year, we are also adding another alumni reception this year at ENAR! The reception will be held Monday, March 7, … Continue reading “2016 Alumni Receptions – Join Us!”
The department has developed several new educational initiatives this past year. As Xihong mentioned, the School has approved a new Masters program in Health Data Science. This program affords several … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Associate Chair Brent Coull”
As the year closes and we celebrate the holiday season, I would like to express my warm appreciation to all of you in the Harvard Biostatistics community for your many … Continue reading “Holiday Message from Chair Xihong Lin”
A generous gift from the Minerva Foundation supported NIH cost sharing expenses and made possible the funding of the new Biostatistics Workshop program. Five workshop grants were awarded in the … Continue reading “Small Workshops 2016”
Scott L. Carter joined the department as Assistant Professor of Computational Biology. Dr. Carter is based at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at DFCI. HMS Assistant Professor of … Continue reading “Appointments 2015”
