The huge upswing in sequencing activity over the past few years was one of the main topics discussed at the 10th annual PQG (Program in Quantitative Genomics) conference held earlier this month … Continue reading “Reviewing the 2016 PQG Conference: A Genome Every 12 Minutes”
The Department held their annual Meet and Greet on Friday in the Kresge cafeteria, giving faculty, researchers, students, and staff the chance to break from routine, and to socialize, snack, … Continue reading “Biostats Annual Meet & Greet”
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”
From contributor Sheila Gaynor: We are very pleased to announce that our department was recently awarded an NIH Big Data to Knowledge (BD2K) T32 Training Grant that will support six … Continue reading “HSPH Secures BD2K Training Grant”
Karen Bandeen-Roche, Chair of the Biostatistics Department at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, received the 20th annual Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science at the School last Thursday. It was … Continue reading “Marvin Zelen Leadership Award Lecture”
As many of you know, a symposium in celebration of Jim Ware’s life and career was held on Friday, April 29, featuring tributes from nine of Ware’s colleagues and friends. … Continue reading “Celebrating Jim Ware”
April 28 Building 2, Room 426 | 2:00pm Patrick Staples Committee Chair: JP Onnela Networks and Statistical Approaches in Biological Contexts May 2 Kresge 202A | 10:00am Godwin Yung Committee … Continue reading “Dissertation Defense Schedule”
Another great story from ENAR – on behalf of our department, Xihong Lin attended a half-day workshop on Fostering Diversity in Biostatistics, which the department co-sponsored. The workshop provided a forum for discussion of … Continue reading “Diversity Workshop at ENAR”
In addition to a very successful alumni reception, Xihong Lin‘s delivery of the presidential address, and her participation in the first US Biostatistics Chairs Retreat, there were several exciting developments at ENAR: Scarlett Bellamy … Continue reading “Department News”
Xihong Lin will be presenting the Keynote Presidential Invited Address at the ENAR Spring Meeting in Austin on Tuesday, March 8 from 10:30 am – 12:15 pm. Her talk is … Continue reading “Xihong Lin Keynote Address at ENAR”
