What are the obstacles for precision medicine in cancer care? Â According to John Quackenbush, who recently gave a keynote speech on the MedCity CONVERGE Conference, July 31-Aug 1, 2017 in … Continue reading “John Quackenbush Keynote Speech at Converge”
Doctoral student Sheila Gaynor was awarded an F31 grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the NIH. Her grant, titled “Integrative analysis of lung disease genotypes and … Continue reading “Sheila Gaynor Awarded NHLBI F31 Grant”
On July 19-21, the six-week Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology culminated with an extremely successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, reunions, evaluation and celebration. All Summer Program … Continue reading “Pipelines into Biostatistics Annual Symposium”
Students finished their first full week of the Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology! This week students were assigned research projects that they will be working on throughout the next … Continue reading “Summer Program Update – Research Projects”
A recent article in the Harvard Gazette describes the lifetime love of numbers that drew recent graduate Daniel Schlauch into biostatistics. With a family penchant for math and a variety … Continue reading “It All Adds Up: The Transformative Path of A Recent Biostats Grad”
Yulei Wang Thesis Defense Monday, May 1, 2017, 1:00 PM, Bldg 2, Rm 401 Yulei will present her Master’s thesis on “Studying Life Rhythmicity Among Mood Disorder Patients with Smartphone Sensor Data”.  Her … Continue reading “Upcoming Defense Schedule”
Isabel Fulcher and Ben Wong have both been selected to receive one of the American Statistical Society’s Section on Statistics in Epidemiology Young Investigator Awards. The awards are intended to defray travel costs … Continue reading “New Student & Postdoc Awards”
As we approach the holiday season, I would like to express my warmest appreciation to faculty, students, postdoctoral fellows, staff, alumni, and friends of the Harvard Biostatistics Department for your … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Xihong Lin”
The Department was busy this past year concentrating on the development of several educational initiatives. We launched a new Masters program in Health Data Science, with the first cohort scheduled … Continue reading “2016 Holiday Message from Brent Coull”
On July 20-22 we had an enormously successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, culmination, reunions, evaluation and celebration related to our activities to increase the diversity of our students … Continue reading “Message from Rebecca Betensky, PI of T36 Grant: Pipelines into Biostatistics”
