Professor Sündüz Keles received the 2023 SMPH Group of Women in Medicine and Science Impact award. The GWIMS Impact Award recognizes substantive impact in academic medicine and science. Professor Keles received the award at the …
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Tony Gitter named Jeanne M. Rowe Chair
BMI Associate Professor and Morgridge Investigator Tony Gitter has been named the inaugural recipient of the Jeanne M. Rowe Chair for his contributions to virology research. The John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Center for …
Daifeng Wang Featured in WI State Journal for Role in Down Syndrome Research
A team from the Waisman Center, which includes Anita Bhattacharyya, Su-Chun Zhange, Andre Sousa, and BMI Associate Professor Daifeng Wang, was featured in the Wisconsin State Journal for their work on Down Syndrome. The team …
Chen and Longhurst win 2023 Joint ICSA/NIC-ASA student poster competition
Graduate students Grace Yi Chen and Colin Longhurst won the 1st and 3rd prizes, respectively, in the student poster competition at the 2023 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Midwest Chapter and the Northeastern Illinois Chapter …
Daifeng Wang does data magic to advance Down Syndrome research
UW effort to map Down syndrome brain raises prospect of treatment for disorder See article in the Wisconsin State Journal
Lu Mao – awarded competitive renewal of NIH grant
Congratulations to BMI Associate Professor Lu Mao, who has been awarded a 5-year competitive renewal of his NIH grant “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials.” The project aims to develop …
Roy – Computational Approach to Uncovering Gene Networks of Cell Fate
Nature Communications published a paper by BMI Professor and WID Investigator Sushmita Roy and graduate student Shilu Zhang that describes a computational tool called scMTNI, which will allow researchers to construct a more precise view …
BMI Affiliate Majid Afshar Inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association
BMI affiliate faculty member and faculty leader for the SMPH Learning Health Systems Initiatives, Majid Afshar, was inducted as a Fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) in May. AMIA launched the Applied Informatics …
Machine learning algorithm to improve estimation and integration of single-cell data
Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, with research group members Noah Cohen Kalafut and Xiang Huang, published a paper titled “Joint variational autoencoders for multimodal imputation and embedding” in Nature Machine Intelligence on May 29. The algorithm, …
Announcing our 2023 Graduates
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics is proud to recognize our outstanding 2023 graduates. The are graduation from our MS and PhD programs in Biomedical Data Science, as well as programs in Computer Sciences …