StatStart: A Summer Program in Biostatistics

Students had an extremely productive month during StatStart, a summer program in biostatistics that runs through the month of July. Led by Professor Marcello Pagano and doctoral students Sam Tracy, … Continue reading “StatStart: A Summer Program in Biostatistics”

Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

On July 19-21, the six-week Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology culminated with an extremely successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, reunions, evaluation and celebration. All Summer Program … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”

Jeff Miller Awarded Dean’s Challenge Grant

Congratulations to Assistant Professor Jeffrey Miller who was recently chosen by The McLennan Dean’s Challenge Grant Program selection committee to receive funding in the amount of $50,000 to support research on “Studying mechanisms of … Continue reading “Jeff Miller Awarded Dean’s Challenge Grant”

Catherine Lee Dissertation Defense – 7/26

Wednesday, July 26th 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM Building 2, Room 426 Catherine Lee will present her dissertation on “Methods for the Analysis of Complex Time-to-Event Data”. Her committee is chaired by … Continue reading “Catherine Lee Dissertation Defense – 7/26”

Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

The Pipelines Into Biostatistics Symposium is the culminating event for the Department’s Summer Program in Biostatistics and Computational Biology. Attendees are current and past summer program participants, faculty, fellows, graduate … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”

Harvard Catalyst Journal Club with Kush Kapur

“Functional data analysis using smoothing splines” Tuesday, July 18th 12:30pm – 1:30pm Bldg 2, Rm 426  Kush Kapur, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Senior Biostatistician … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Journal Club with Kush Kapur”

Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium

Thursday, July 20th DFCI, Smith Building, rooms 308/309 Check-in @ 8:30am Program 9am-4pm RSVP NOW! Knashawn Morales – Keynote Speaker Dept Alum, Sc.D. ’01 Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Biostatistics and … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”

Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense

Friday, July 14th 12:00 PM – 2:30 PM FXB FXB-G10 Yered Pita-Juarez will present his dissertation on “Three Aspects of Gene Expression: Pathway Coexpression, Cross-Species Analysis of RNA-seq Data, and … Continue reading “Yered Pita-Juarez Dissertation Defense”

Harvard Catalyst – Upcoming Event

June 2017 Journal Club Jacqueline Starr, PhD Director, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Core Lecturer, Department of Oral Health Science and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Dental Medicine June 27, 2017 12:30pm-1:30pm Building … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst – Upcoming Event”