First Working Groups / Talks of the Semester

Cancer Working Group Immunology Reading Group  Thursday, September 15 12:30-1:30 PM Kresge 502 We’re going to try a slightly different format this year. Instead of having 1-2 people give a … Continue reading “First Working Groups / Talks of the Semester”

New Biostatistics-Biomedical Informatics Big Data Seminar (B3D)

Co-organized by the Department of Biostatistics and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School, the Biostatistics – Biomedical Informatics Big Data Seminar (B3D) is a series of research talks … Continue reading “New Biostatistics-Biomedical Informatics Big Data Seminar (B3D)”

Summer Project Presentations

Eleven rising second-year PhD students presented their summer projects to an overflowing audience on Tuesday, August 23.  The talks were held in two sessions hosted by Kevin Cummiskey and Maya … Continue reading “Summer Project Presentations”

‘Smoke Waves’: Assessing the Public Health Threat from Wildfires

As wildfires increase in frequency and severity due to climate change, more communities are threatened by prolonged exposure to harmful levels of smoke.  To identify the areas at highest risk, … Continue reading “‘Smoke Waves’: Assessing the Public Health Threat from Wildfires”

Alumni News: Nick Horton Selected as Pickard Lecturer

The Harvard Statistics Department has just announced that Professor Nicholas Horton of Amherst College has been chosen as the 2016 David K. Pickard Lecturer by the award selection committee including … Continue reading “Alumni News: Nick Horton Selected as Pickard Lecturer”

Short Course Explores Survival Analysis

The primary goal for conducting clinical studies is to obtain robust, clinically interpretable results with respect to risk-benefit perspectives for individual patients in a well-defined target population via efficient and reliable … Continue reading “Short Course Explores Survival Analysis”