PhD Student Awards: Tom Chen & Kaitlyn Cook

Congratulations to PhD Student Tom Chen who has been selected as one of the winners of the 2018 JSM Student Paper Competition for his paper “A stochastic second-order generalized estimating … Continue reading “PhD Student Awards: Tom Chen & Kaitlyn Cook”

DFCI Seminar with Jinbo Chen – 2/26

Monday, February 26, 2:30-3:30pm, CLSB 11081B Novel Two-Phase Sampling Designs for Studying Binary Outcomes Jinbo Chen Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics University of Pennsylvania In a biomedical cohort study … Continue reading “DFCI Seminar with Jinbo Chen – 2/26”

Open Insights Seminar with Kees Van Bochove

Department of Biomedical Informatics – Open Insights Seminar Series February 15 | 12:30pm | Room 403 (4th Floor) | Countway Library Kees van Bochove Founder and CEO The Hyve GO-FAIR on … Continue reading “Open Insights Seminar with Kees Van Bochove”

HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects

Harvard Data Science Initiative Competitive Research Fund Deadline: March 6, 2018 by 5:00PM Award Amount: Up to $100,000 Eligible Applicants: Individuals who hold a faculty appointment at a Harvard school … Continue reading “HDSI Research Fund – Call for Projects”

2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium

Register now for the 2018 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Frontier Science and Research Technology Foundation’s Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium. This year’s topic is: Data Science in Biomedical Research Featuring the … Continue reading “2018 DFCI/FSTRK Marvin Zelen Symposium”

NESS Colloquium Series with Michael Jordan, 1/31

Dr. Michael Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics The University of California, Berkeley On Computational Thinking, Inferential … Continue reading “NESS Colloquium Series with Michael Jordan, 1/31”

Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2

Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium on Data Science Hot Topics in Cancer Epidemiology Do Statins Increase the Survival of Cancer Patients? Presentations and panel discussion hosted by Lorelei Mucci & Miguel Hernán Friday, … Continue reading “Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2”

Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success

Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Scott Carter, along with his team Alex Shalek and Priscilla Brastiano of MIT, recently received funding from the Bridge Project for their work to characterize … Continue reading “Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success”