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”

Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy

An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. A recent article outlines independent discoveries, led by two research … Continue reading “Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy”

Biomedical Applications of Natural Language Processing

A recent article in the Harvard Medicine Magazine describes the fruitful cross-pollination between computation, human language and biology in the face of a commonly-shared challenge; namely, the need to parse … Continue reading “Biomedical Applications of Natural Language Processing”

Seminar with Rajarshi Mukherjee – 1/18

INFERENCE IN OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES Research activities in observational studies has seen a recent surge owing to multiple factors. Among others, these factors include with our ability and need to collect … Continue reading “Seminar with Rajarshi Mukherjee – 1/18”

DBMI Open Insights Seminar – 12/14

Thursday, December 14 12:30pm Room 403 (4th Floor) Countway Library, HMS Mauricio Santillana, Ph.D. Assistant Professor HMS and Boston Children’s Hospital Machine Learning Approaches for Early Detection of Events in … Continue reading “DBMI Open Insights Seminar – 12/14”