Associate Professor Daifeng Wang is co-investigator on a newly awarded $9M grant to study Down Syndrome. Sigan Hartley (PI) and the team will conduct an in-depth study of factors driving the risk and severity of …
Research
Notes and news about research in the department
Miao and Lu – First and Last Author Paper in Nature Genetics
Congratulations to Jiancheng Miao (1st author) and Qiongshi Lu (last author) for a paper published online September 30 in Nature Genetics. The paper, titled “Valid inference for machine learning-assisted genome-wide association studies” offers a robust …
Velten Co-PI on Research Forward Award
Congratulations to associate professor Andreas Velten (co-PI) on receiving a Research Forward award titled “Quanta sensing for next generation quantum computing,” led by professor Mohit Gupta, associate professor of computer sciences and PI on the …
Kendziorski named Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Congratulations to Professor Christina Kendziorski for being named Fellow of the 2024 class of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Designation as an IMS Fellow is a significant honor, and has been for nearly 90 …
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 …
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 …
Two BMI students win ASA SGG Student Paper Awards!
BMI graduate students, Kwangmoon Park (3rd year with Sunduz Keles) and Soham Ghosh (2nd year with Guanhua Chen) won two of the five 2023 ASA Section on Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Student Paper …
Roy lab contributes to understanding early spinal cord development
Associate Professor Sushmita Roy and her lab are part of a team at the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center that is developing ways to turn stem cells into specific types of spinal cord neurons …
KyungMann Kim awarded $7.1M U24 for the HIV/Cervical Cancer Prevention “CASCADE” Clinical Trials Network
Congratulations to Dr. Kim and his team for their success being awarded a $7.1M U24 cooperative agreement from the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Kim will serve as PI of the Data Coordinating Center for the …