Congratulations to Fan Chen for winning the 2020 ASA Section of Statistics in Genomics and Genetics (SGG) Distinguished Student Paper award for his paper: “SURF: Integrative analysis of a compendium of RNA-seq and CLIP-seq datasets …
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Thevaa Chandereng wins the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Student Paper Competition
We are delighted to announce that Thevaa Chandereng won the 2020 JSM Biopharmaceutical Paper Competition for his manuscript titled “Robust Blocked Response-Adaptive Randomization Designs.” Thevaa’s primary advisor is Rick Chappell and he is co-advised by …
Jacob Maronge wins JSM Travel Award
Congratulations to Jake Maronge for winning the JSM Travel Award from the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association. Jack won this award for a paper titled “Generalized case-control sampling under generalized linear models,” one …
Professor Sunduz Keles profiled in Nature Methods
BMI Professor Sunduz Keles was profiled in “The Author File” section of Nature Methods in December 2019. The profile is a nice combination of background on Professor Keles and her current research (with graduate student …
Postdoctoral Research Position – Biostatistical Methodology
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) invites application for a post-doctoral researcher (PR) position in biostatistical methodology under the mentorship of Dr. Lu Mao (https://biostat.wisc.edu/~lmao/). This position is …
Asst Prof Lu Mao receives 3-year NIH award to develop new statistical methods for use in clinical trials
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Lu Mao on the award of a $1.1M 3-year National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) award titled “Novel Statistical Methods for Complex Time-to-Event Data in Cardiovascular Clinical Trials. In clinical …
Asst Prof Daifeng Wang awarded 5-year NIH grant to study Alzheimer’s Disease
Congratulations to Assistant Professor Daifeng Wang, who has been awarded a $1.68M, 5-year R01 grant from the National Institute on Aging entitled “Understanding the molecular mechanisms that contribute to neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease. Neuropsychiatric …