Professor of Biostatistics Rebecca Betensky was the keynote speaker at the 2016 Annual Joint Biostatistics Symposium, co-sponsored by The Ohio State University, Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic Foundation. She presented … Continue reading “2016 Joint Biostatistics Program”
Shirley Liu, Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has received the Richard W. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award for her work … Continue reading “Endocrine Society Early Career Award”
Franziska Michor, Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, has been awarded the American Association for Cancer Research Award for Outstanding Achievement … Continue reading “AACR Outstanding Achievement Award”
As many of you now know, Jim Ware, the Frederick Mosteller Professor of Biostatistics and Associate Dean for Clinical and Translational Science, passed away April 26 after a long battle … Continue reading “James H. Ware 1941-2016”
Congratulations to Francesca Dominici and Antonella Zanobetti (PI and co-PI) for being awarded a new HEI grant for their project on “Assessing Adverse Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Low … Continue reading “New Health Effects Institute Award”
Two summers ago, Nan Laird sat down with former chair Louise Ryan (PhD ’83) to reflect on her 40 years at Harvard. Their conversation is wonderfully comprehensive and discusses her … Continue reading “A Conversation with Nan Laird”
Another great story from ENAR – on behalf of our department, Xihong Lin attended a half-day workshop on Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics, which the department co-sponsored. The workshop provided a forum for discussion of … Continue reading “Diversity Workshop at ENAR”
Francesca Dominici was selected to be a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee (SAC) of the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) and recently attended their 43rd meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, … Continue reading “Francesca Dominici to be on RERF Committee”
In addition to a very successful alumni reception, Xihong Lin‘s delivery of the presidential address, and her participation in the first US Biostatistics Chairs Retreat, there were several exciting developments at ENAR: Scarlett Bellamy … Continue reading “Department News”
A paper from Alkes Price‘s research group, led by doctoral student Kevin Galinsky, was just published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. The paper is entitled “Fast Principal Component … Continue reading “Paper Published in AJHG”
