Christoph Lange received a grant from the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Foundation to develop analytical and statistical tools for sequence analysis for Alzheimer’s disease. Brent Coull received an NIH Conference Grant “Workshop for Junior Biostatisticians … Continue reading “New Faculty Grants”
Associate Professor Curtis Huttenhower recently received two new research grants. A two-year NIH R21 entitled “Staphylococcus Aureus Carriage and the Nasal Microbiome” will characterize the associations between S. Aureas and the predominant members … Continue reading “New Microbiome Initiative Data Center”
Professor Francesca Dominici, Professor Brent Coull, and Assistant Professor Cory Zigler play key roles within a new EPA-funded research center, “Regional Air Pollution Mixtures: The Past and Future Impact of Emission Controls and Climate … Continue reading “New EPA-Funded Research Center”
Xihong Lin is the recipient of a prestigious National Cancer Institute Outstanding Investigator Award (OIA). Globally recognized for her leadership and expertise in statistical genetics and genomics, Xihong received a $6.6 million … Continue reading “NCI Outstanding Investigator Award”
Concerned by the lack of diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) programs, doctoral students Octavious Talbot and Alex Ocampo recruited Kelly Mosesso and Sam Tracy to teach programming … Continue reading “StatStart: Diversity in Statistics”
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”
