Last Week’s Successful Dissertation Defenses!

Congratulations  to Dr. Kaitlyn Cook who successfully defended her dissertation “Monitoring and Analysis of Cluster-Randomized Trials with Interval-Censored Endpoints” last week! Advisors: Rui Wang, Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen Dissertation Committee Members: Rui Wang, Eric Tchetgen … Continue reading “Last Week’s Successful Dissertation Defenses!”

Margaux Hujoel Defends Dissertation

Congratulations to Dr. Margaux Hujoel who successfully defended her dissertation “Statistical Inferences about the Genetic Architecture of Disease” last week! Dissertation Committee: Alkes Price, Po-Ru Loh (HMS), Giovanni Parmigiani, Danielle … Continue reading “Margaux Hujoel Defends Dissertation”

21st Annual Celebration with the Stars

21st Annual Celebration with the Stars A recognition event to honor staff, faculty and academic appointees who have reached a key milestone at Harvard in calendar year 2019 Wednesday, March 4, … Continue reading “21st Annual Celebration with the Stars”

Student Paper Award Winners

Doctoral student Xiao Wu has been named a winner of a 2019 Student Paper Award, from the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment, for a paper entitled “Matching on … Continue reading “Student Paper Award Winners”

Parmigiani & Braun Receive Acceleration Award

Congratulations to project co-leaders Giovanni Parmigiani and Danielle Braun who recently received the Dean’s Fund for Scientific Advancement: Acceleration Award for their proposal on Inherited Cancer Risk Knowledge Base. Their research team is interested … Continue reading “Parmigiani & Braun Receive Acceleration Award”

Braun & Parmigiani Receive Footbridge Grant

As members of a team composed of investigators from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research Fellow Danielle Braun and DFCI Biostatistics Chair & Professor Giovanni Parmigiani … Continue reading “Braun & Parmigiani Receive Footbridge Grant”