Carmen B. Rodriguez Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "Breast cancer worry, uncertainty, and perceived risk following breast density notification in a longitudinal mammography screening cohort" Abstract: This paper … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Belén Otero Carrasco Title: Repositioning Drugs for Rare Diseases Based on Biological Features and Computational Approaches Abstract: Rare diseases are a group of uncommon diseases in the world population. To date, about 7000 rare diseases have been documented. However, most of them do not have a known treatment. As a result of the relatively low … Continue reading "Biostatistics PhD/Master’s Student Seminar Series"
Phuong Pham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor in the Department of Global Health and Population Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School Harvard Humanitarian Initiative "The influence of misinformation on outbreak response: Examining Ebola and COVID-19 research from Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda" ABSTRACT: What was the role of trust and misinformation in shaping … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
Luke Benz Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University "A simulation study to compare causal inference methods for point exposures with missing confounders" ABSTRACT: Causal inference methods based on electronic health record (EHR) databases must simultaneously handle confounding and missing data. Vast work exists to address these two separately, but surprisingly few papers attempt to … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Molly Schumer Assistant Professor in Biology Stanford University The evolution of reproductive isolation: insights from swordtail fish Hybridization, or the exchange of genes between different species, is much more common than previously recognized. In the past decade, the genome sequencing revolution has allowed us to peer into the evolutionary histories of myriad species. This has … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"
Sahand Hormoz, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, and Data Science at Dana Farber Cancer Institute "Lineage trees and dynamics of blood cancers" ABSTRACT: I will talk about some efforts in my lab to understand how the differentiation and proliferation dynamics of mutated blood stem cells deviate from that of healthy stem … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Jessica Cerdeña, Ph.D. Medical Anthropologist and Family Physician in Training, Yale School of Medicine "Advancing Health Justice through Race-Conscious Research" ABSTRACT: Achieving equitable outcomes for oppressed and socially stigmatized communities—including people living with HIV—requires conscientious and rigorous science. This discussion will center on how to enact race-conscious data science, emphasizing the role of racism, rather … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
Nabihah Tayob, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Data Science, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School "Improved early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma with longitudinal screening algorithms" … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Yu Chen Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit HMS, MGH, Broad Institute Enhanced Interpretation of Schizophrenia GWAS of Diverse Ancestry with Brain Regulatory Architecture of Matched Population Previous genetic studies of schizophrenia focused on disproportionate majority of European Population. GWAS of non-European populations highlighted the importance of generalizability of genetic studies. Yet, the scarcity of expression … Continue reading "PQG Working Group"
Evelyn Zhang, Ph.D. Research Associate, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health "Subgroup analysis for Survival Outcomes: An Individualized Treatment Selection Approach for First line ART" … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
