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 …
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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 …
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, …
2023 Faculty Promotions
We are delighted to report the promotions of five BMI faculty members, with effective dates this summer. The promotions recognize their outstanding scholarly accomplishments and contributions to the department, university, and scholarly community. Promotions to …
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 …
Newton and Zheng on team that wins WARF Innovation Award
Congratulations to Michael Newton and Zihao Zheng, one of his graduate students, for their contributions to a team that won a 2022 WARF Innovation Award! Sara McCoy and Miriam Shelef, both in the Department of …