BDS PhD student Jiacheng Miao, advised by Assistant Professor Qiongshi Lu, won this year’s ASA Section on Statistical Genomics and Genetics Student Paper award. The paper is titled “A quantile integral linear model to quantify …
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Founding Chair Dave DeMets Spearheads Society for Clinical Trials Data Monitoring Committee Initiative
The Society for Clinical Trials (SCT) launched a Data Monitoring Committee initiative, which was born out of the recognition that there is a dearth of people qualified to serve on Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs). BMI …
BMI 738 and BMI 775 Approved as Permanent Courses
BMI 738, Ethics for Data Scientists, and BMI 775, Computational Network Biology, are now approved as permanent BMI courses. BMI 738 is designed to educate data scientists, particularly those who work with biomedical data, about …
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
Professor Mark Craven Wins NHGRI Grant
Professor KyungMann Kim Lead Editor of Newly Published Clinical Trials Handbook
Professor KyungMann Kim, the director of BMI’s Clinical Trials Program, is the lead editor of the newly published “Handbook of Statistical Methods for Randomized Controlled Trials” from Chapman & Hall/CRC Press. Professor Kim and fellow …
Mayampurath and Hu join BMI faculty
We are delighted to welcome assistant professors Anoop Mayampurath and Junjie Hu to the BMI faculty. Dr. Mayampurath is a clinical informatics expert who joined us from the University of Chicago, where he focused on …
Former BDS trainee and Yale PhD candidate on Jeopardy winning streak
Matt Amodio, a former Biomedical Data Science trainee and current Yale PhD student was on an 18-day winning streak as of August 14. His winnings as of that Friday, August 13, were $574,801, the third …
BMI Strategic Planning Underway
The Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics has launched its first ever formal strategic planning process, which we will complete by mid-September of 2021. We are working with Deb Gurke, a consultant from the Office …
BMI Professor Vikas Singh Co-PI on Beckman Foundation award to develop smart lightsheet technology
Professor Vikas Singh is co-Principal Investigator on a new 5-year, $1.2 million award from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation to the Morgridge Institute for Research. The project, led by Morgridge Investigators Jan Huisken and …