Congratulations to Professors Michael Newton and KyungMann Kim for their role in a successful $12.5M grant application to explore using targeted radionuclide therapy followed by immunotherapy to help the immune system recognize and destroy cancer …
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Postdoctoral position in Biostatistical Methodology
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW-Madison) invites applications for a post-doctoral position in biostatistical methodology under the mentorship of Dr. Lu Mao (https://biostat.wisc.edu/~lmao/). This position is open immediately until …
David L. Demets: Celebrating Half a Century of Excellence: The Final Analysis
Founding chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, Dr. David L. DeMets, is retiring at the end of this year after a 50-year professional career. We are celebrating his contributions and retirement on …
Assistant or Associate Professor of Clinical Research Informatics (227672)
The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics (BMI) and the Clinical and Health Informatics Institute (CHI2) seek applicants for a tenure-track assistant or associate professor whose research focuses on clinical research informatics. The successful applicant …
Assistant or Associate Professor of Machine Learning (228054)
The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics, a vibrant and collaborative basic science department in the School of Medicine & Public Health at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seeks applicants for a tenure-track assistant or associate …
Newton Co-PI on NSF Transdisciplinary Research in Data Science (TRIPODS) award
BMI Chair Michael Newton is co-PI on an NSF TRIPODS award to WID titled: TRIPODS: Institute for Foundations of Data Science (IFDS). Stephen Wright (Computer Sciences) is PI, with Robert Nowak (ECE, ISyE, CS, and …
Yin Li featured on NBC15 News
Assistant Professor Yin Li’s work on the “Fingertrak” device is featured on the NBC15 News website. Fingertrak is a new device designed to help identify and diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s at early stages …
Mao wins three-year NSF grant
Assistant Professor Lu Mao was awarded a three-year National Science Foundation grant titled “Randomized Trials with Non-Compliance: Extending the Angrist-Imbens-Ruben Framework. Congratulations to Lu! Abstract: Randomized controlled trial (RCT) refers to a design commonly employed …
Announcing our 2020 Graduates
The faculty and staff of the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics are proud to announce this year’s 28 graduates. The graduates represent a mix of students. Nine students graduated from our MS in Biomedical …
Fan Chen wins ASA Distinguished Student Paper
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 …