Cassandra Arroyo-Johnson, PhD ‘2003 (first author) and Melody Goodman, PhD ‘2006 are authors on a paper entitled “Racial and Ethnic Heterogeneity in Self-Reported Diabetes Prevalence Trends Across Hispanic Subgroups, National Health … Continue reading “Alumni News: Published Paper”
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”
Caleb Miles (PhD ’15) has been selected as one of the winners of the ASA Biometrics Section Travel Award for JSM for his paper A Class of Semiparametric Tests of Treatment … Continue reading “JSM Biometrics Travel Award Winner”
Postdoctoral Research Fellow Han Chen recently received an NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00). Mentored by Xihong Lin, Han’s proposed research entitled Statistical and Computational Methods for Large-Scale Sequencing Studies will … Continue reading “Pathway to Independence Award Winner”
PhD Student Georgia Papadogeorgou has been selected as one of the winners of the 2016 JSM Student Paper Competition for her paper Towards Adjustment for Completely Unobserved Confounding. As part of … Continue reading “JSM Student Paper Competition Winner”
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Cory Zigler, who’s R01 was recently funded! The title of the grant is Causal Inference with Interference for Evaluating Air Quality Policies. Cory’s co-investigators include Francesca Dominici, … Continue reading “Cory Zigler’s R01 Funded”
Jennifer Bobb and Francesca Dominici‘s paper, Causes of hospitalization during heat waves, was recently named one of the top papers funded by the NIEHS in 2015. The paper reported that, … Continue reading “Heat Waves – An NIEHS Paper of the Year”
Jeremiah Zhe Liu (SM ’15, PhD ’20) was recently interviewed for the school’s Why Public Health? feature in the Harvard Public Health Magazine. After coming to America and seeing a … Continue reading “Why Public Health? Featuring Jeremiah Zhe Liu”
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”
