Over the next few weeks we’ll be introducing you to our first year doctoral students. Hi! My name is Parker Knight, and I grew up in Ocala, Florida, which is about … Continue reading “Get to Know Our New PhD Students!”
In recent years, researchers have been making progress on developing treatments that leverage the human immune system to overcome various forms of cancer. The relatively nascent pursuit of cancer immunotherapies … Continue reading “PQG Conference Explores Intersection of Cancer, Immunology, and Data Science”
An urgent question for cancer scientists is why immunotherapy achieves dramatic results in some cases but doesn’t help most patients. A recent article outlines independent discoveries, led by two research … Continue reading “Extending the Benefits of Immunotherapy”
X. Shirley Liu recently received the Breast Cancer Research Foundation Award to identify novel immunotherapy targets to treat triple negative breast cancers. Guo-Cheng Yuan was awarded an R01, “A Systems … Continue reading “Faculty News: Shirley Liu & GC Yuan”
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”
Shirley Liu, Professor of Biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has received the Richard W. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award for her work … Continue reading “Endocrine Society Early Career Award”
In the fall of 2015, Shirley Liu succeeded Rafa Irizarry as the Chair of the NIH Genomics, Computational Biology and Technology (GCAT) Study Section. Her chair term will be for two years. Proposals reviewed … Continue reading “Shirley Liu: New Chair of GCAT Study Section”
Scott L. Carter joined the department as Assistant Professor of Computational Biology. Dr. Carter is based at the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at DFCI. HMS Assistant Professor of … Continue reading “Appointments 2015”
Shirley Liu and Xihong Lin have both been appointed as Professors of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. These appointments were approved by the University and the FAS … Continue reading “Faculty News”
