Kenny will present the thesis entitled “Penalized Approaches to Separation of Data in the Assessment of Factors Associated with Spinal Subdural Hemorrhage in Children Evaluated for Abusive Head Trauma”. The thesis committee is chaired by Dr. Kathryn Gray, and includes Dr. Katherine Canty, and Dr. Erin Lake.
Daniel Schwartz Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Treatment Effect Estimation in Multisite Trials with Endogenous Design: Old Estimators, New Results Abstract: In large-scale multisite randomized trials, key design features such as the sample size at each site often arise from an unpredictable social process. As a result, … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Group Seminar"
Elizabeth Graff PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Discussion of "Shift-aware Human Mobility Recovery with Graph Neural Network" (Sun et al. 2021) Abstract: Human mobility recovery is of great importance for a wide range of location-based services. However, recovering human mobility is not trivial because of three challenges: 1) … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Jeremy Simon Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Senior Research Scientist, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Abstract: I will discuss ongoing work from a personalized neoantigen vaccine clinical trial in melanoma, focusing on single-cell RNA-seq and TCR-seq data from patient samples … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
Emma Davies Smith, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics Rank-based estimators of global treatment effects for cluster randomized trials with multiple endpoints Abstract: When interventions have wide-ranging impacts, cluster randomized trials may employ multiple endpoints. When a single summary of effects across endpoints is of primary interest, … Continue reading "HIV Working Group"
Xiang Zhou Professor of Biostatistics University of Michigan Statistical methods for fine-mapping analysis in genome-wide association studies Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified many SNPs associated with common diseases and disease-relevant complex traits. However, the precise underlying causal signals and molecular mechanisms underlying these associations remain largely unknown. Here, I will discuss a few statistical … Continue reading "PQG Seminar"
Jodeci Wheaden PhD Student, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Lifestyle factors and impact on colon cancer risk Abstract: In my exploration titled "Lifestyle Factors and Impact on Colon Cancer Risk," I initially set out to understand the relationship between lifestyle choices and colon cancer risk. However, a pivot was necessary … Continue reading "Quantitative Issues in Cancer Research Working Seminar"
