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 …
Research
Notes and news about research in the department
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 …
Singh research team wins prestigious best paper award at 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision
Professor Vikas Singh, Xingjian Zhen (first author), Zihang Meng, and Rudrasis Chakraborty won the prestigious ECCV award for best paper out of more than 5,000 entries at the 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) …
Cheng Wins Award at National Library Medicine Training Conference
Congratulations to Jojo Cheng, graduate student in Associate Professor Guanhua Chen’s lab, for winning one of two awards for the best plenary talk at the National Library Medicine Training Conference. This conference brings together several …
Kendziorski and Roy, Kellett and Romnes award winners, in “Inside UW”
Kellett Fellowship award winner Christina Kendziorski and H.I. Romnes award winner Sushmita Roy were included in a UW news release and the May 19, 2022 Inside UW newsletter. BMI received 2 of the 32 awards …
Tom Cook Elected to the 2022 Class of Fellows by the Society for Clinical Trials
Congratulations to Tom Cook, Professor CHS, for his election as member of the 2022 Class of Fellows by the Society of Clinical Trials. He, and classmate Alexia Iasonos of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, will …
Gao and Chen win COVID-19 Data Challenge, Task 1
Congratulations to graduate student Jifan Gao and Assistant Professor Guanhua Chen for their winning entry to Task 1 of the Pediatric COVID-19 Data challenge! Their submission, titled “A Model for Predicting Need for Hospitalization,” earned …
BMI Affiliate Jignesh Patel named AAAS fellow
BMI affiliate Jignesh Patel (Professor of Computer Sciences) is one of 13 UW-Madison faculty elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read the UW news release for more information. Congratulations to …
Associate Professor Tony Gitter featured in Cap Times AI article
Associate Professor Tony Gitter was featured in an article published by the Capital Times that discusses artificial intelligence (AI) and its application to biomedical research. https://madison.com/ct/news/local/education/researchers-uw-educators-see-a-bright-future-for-ai-in-health-care/article_e000507c-1f33-5a53-ac2d-44541ad8fad2.html/?&logged_out=1