Harvard Catalyst Biostats Semiar Series: The Placebo Effect in Clinical Studies

JANUARY 26 3:30-5:00pm | Room G1 | Kresge Building The Pharmacogenetics of the Placebo Response Kathryn T. Hall, Harvard Medical School & BWH FEBRUARY 8 3:30-5:00pm | Room G2 | Kresge Building … Continue reading “Harvard Catalyst Biostats Semiar Series: The Placebo Effect in Clinical Studies”

2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin

As we approach the holiday season, I would like to express my warmest appreciation to faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, alumni, and friends of the Harvard Biostatistics Department for your … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin”

Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core – 2016 Summary

The Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core had another productive year under the leadership of Shannan Ho Sui. We were excited to recruit Dr. Victor Barrera from Madrid with his expertise in epigenetics and pipeline … Continue reading “Harvard Chan Bioinformatics Core – 2016 Summary”

Honoring Climate Change Agreements Will Save Millions of Lives

Though much attention is focused on the long-term benefits of climate change mitigation, David Hunter and Francesca Dominici’s recent article published in the online news source STAT and featured on … Continue reading “Honoring Climate Change Agreements Will Save Millions of Lives”

Reviewing the 2016 PQG Conference: A Genome Every 12 Minutes

The huge upswing in sequencing activity over the past few years was one of the main topics discussed at the 10th annual PQG (Program in Quantitative Genomics) conference held earlier this month … Continue reading “Reviewing the 2016 PQG Conference: A Genome Every 12 Minutes”

Updates from Donna Spiegelman

In August, Dr. Donna Spiegelman attended the Joint Statistical Meetings in Chicago, IL to give an invited talk entitled “Estimation and inference for the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio for censored survival … Continue reading “Updates from Donna Spiegelman”

PQG Conference – Register Now!

REGISTER     The Program in Quantitative Genomics will host its 10th Annual Conference, “Whole Genome Sequencing Analysis: Comprehensive Capture of Genetic Variants” on November 3-4, 2016 at the Joseph B. Martin Conference Center … Continue reading “PQG Conference – Register Now!”