The Department has recently received a $100K grant from Boehringer Ingelheim, one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies, to fund two new student fellowships in biostatistics. PhD students receiving these scholarships will be co-mentored … Continue reading “Boehringer Ingelheim Funds New Fellowships”
In the school’s latest podcast, Professor Miguel Hernán explains how vast amounts of information can be used to assess what works in medicine and public health. View transcript and listen to … Continue reading “Miguel Hernán on Big Data & Public Health”
Dr. Michael Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Statistics The University of California, Berkeley On Computational Thinking, Inferential … Continue reading “NESS Colloquium Series with Michael Jordan, 1/31”
Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium on Data Science Hot Topics in Cancer Epidemiology Do Statins Increase the Survival of Cancer Patients? Presentations and panel discussion hosted by Lorelei Mucci & Miguel Hernán Friday, … Continue reading “Inaugural Kolokotrones Symposium – 2/2”
Professor of Applied Statistics Rafael Irizarry will become the new Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, effective February 1, 2018. Rafa will succeed Giovanni … Continue reading “Rafael Irizarry Named New Chair at DFCI”
Professor of Statistics and Computer Science Susan A. Murphy will receive the prestigious R.A. Fisher Award and Lectureship from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS). She will deliver the … Continue reading “Susan Murphy Receives R.A. Fisher Award”
Associate Professor JP Onnela has released version 2 of his HarvardX course Using Python for Research. This course bridges the gap between introductory and advanced courses in Python. While there are … Continue reading “JP Onnela Launches New Online Python Course”
Assistant Professor of Computational Biology, Scott Carter, along with his team Alex Shalek and Priscilla Brastiano of MIT, recently received funding from the Bridge Project for their work to characterize … Continue reading “Metastases and Immunotherapy: understanding treatment failure to promote success”
A tradition began last spring in the department, linking the Colloquium Series with Career Development, and it will continue this year! Lunchtime Career Chats are specifically designed to be informal, … Continue reading “Lunchtime Career Chat with Peter Mueller – 1/25”
