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Cancer Working Group Seminar 11-8-2023 Flyer for talk by Sajia Darwish

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar

In Person

Sajia Darwish Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Theory-driven statistical estimation of racism-related themes in the medical literature Abstract: The scientific study of racism as a root cause of health inequities has been hampered by the policies and practices of medical journals. Monitoring the discourse around racism and health inequities in scientific publications is … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"

PQG Seminar

In Person

Eric Van Buren Postdoctoral Fellow in Biostatistics & Statistical Genetics Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health cellSTAAR: Incorporating single-cell-sequencing-based functional data to boost power in rare variant association testing of non-coding regions Whole genome sequencing studies have identified hundreds of millions of rare variants, the majority of which are in non-coding regions and of … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"

Amy Zhou Cancer Working Group

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar

In Person

Carmen Rodriguez Cabrera Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: Personalized medicine has become very popular because it recognizes that individuals may respond differently to the same treatment due to differences in their underlying biology. With the emergence of large amounts of data coming from electronic health records linked with … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"

HIV Working Group Flyer

HIV Working Group Seminar

Virtual In Person

Keith Barnatchez Doctoral Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University Estimating Causal Effects with Error-Prone Exposures Using Control Variates Abstract: Exposure measurement error poses a common challenge to performing causal inference in observational studies. Despite the growing body of work at the intersection of causal inference and measurement error, there remains a critical need for flexible, … Continue reading "HIV Working Group Seminar"

HIV Working Group Flyer

HIV Working Group Seminar

Virtual In Person

Keith Barnatchez PhD Student, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics  "Estimating Causal Effects with Error-Prone Exposures Using Control Variates" Abstract:   Exposure measurement error poses a common challenge to performing causal inference in observational studies. Despite the growing body of work at the intersection of causal inference and measurement error, there remains a … Continue reading "HIV Working Group Seminar"

PQG Seminar

In Person

Shamil Sunyaev Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School Professor of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital The puzzling variation of complex traits

Cancer Working Group Seminar

Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar

In Person

Rong Ma Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health A Spectral Approach to Assessing and Combining Multiple Data Embeddings Abstract: Dimension reduction is an indispensable part of modern data science, and many algorithms have been developed. However, different algorithms have their own strengths and weaknesses, making it important to evaluate their … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"