We are extremely pleased to announce that effective today, August 13, 2018, John Quackenbush, PhD, Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, will serve as the new chair of the Department … Continue reading “John Quackenbush to Serve as New Department Chair”
On July 18-20, the six-week Summer Program in Biostatistics & Computational Biology culminated with an extremely successful three days of workshops, symposium, meetings, reunions, and celebration. All Summer Program activities were designed … Continue reading “Another Successful Summer Program Concludes”
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/francesca-dominici/In honor of Women’s History Month, the American Statistical Association (ASA) celebrated women who work in statistics and data science with a series of short biographies on AMSTAT News. Both … Continue reading “The ASA Celebrates Women in Statistics”
Zachary McCaw’s F31 application entitled Innovations in Genome Wide Association (GWA) Testing Inspired by Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) Phenotypes was recently selected for funding by the National Heart, Lung, and … Continue reading “Zack McCaw Receives NIH F31 Research Award”
We are thrilled to announce that PhD student Siyuan Ma and Postdoc Boyu Ren were part of the winning team at the Boston Datathon! Along with Harvard Statistics PhD student Ryan Lee, and Eric Alt, … Continue reading “Siyuan Ma & Boyu Ren Win Boston Datathon!”
The Department would like to announce a new course in reproducible research that addresses the increasing need for scientific rigor and transparency in studies of biomedical data. Course content has … Continue reading “New Course in Reproducible Research”
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”
