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 …
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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 …
Professor Sunduz Keles Appointed as Vilas Associate
Congratulations to Professor Sunduz Keles for her appointment as a Vilas Associate for July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2023. Professor Keles will receive summer salary support and flexible research funding in each year of …
Newton and Kim on Team Awarded $12.5M NCI Grant to Develop Targeted Radionuclide Therapy
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 …
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 …
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 …