Associate Professor Sushmita Roy and her lab are part of a team at the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center that is developing ways to turn stem cells into specific types of spinal cord neurons …
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Tenure track faculty position in social genomics – cluster hire
The Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in statistical genetics. This position is one of three hiring opportunities on social genomics included in a UW interdisciplinary cluster hiring …
Singh research team wins prestigious best paper award at 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision
Professor Vikas Singh, Xingjian Zhen (first author), Zihang Meng, and Rudrasis Chakraborty won the prestigious ECCV award for best paper out of more than 5,000 entries at the 2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) …
Tang and Chen Labs collaborate to win
Congratulations to Associate Professors Zhengzheng Tang and Guanhua Chen and graduate students Jifan Gao and Zhoujingpeng Wei for winning Task 1 of the Preterm Birth Prediction – Microbiome DREAM Challenge. The predictive tool they developed …
Singh and Pimentel-Alarcon win American Family Funding Initiative awards
Professor Vikas Singh and Assistant Professor Daniel Pimentel-Alarcon are two of the nine recipients of funding awarded through the fourth American Family Funding Initiative of the American Family Insurance Data Science Institute. This competitive initiative …
Kendziorski and Roy, Kellett and Romnes award winners, in “Inside UW”
Kellett Fellowship award winner Christina Kendziorski and H.I. Romnes award winner Sushmita Roy were included in a UW news release and the May 19, 2022 Inside UW newsletter. BMI received 2 of the 32 awards …
Gao and Chen win COVID-19 Data Challenge, Task 1
Congratulations to graduate student Jifan Gao and Assistant Professor Guanhua Chen for their winning entry to Task 1 of the Pediatric COVID-19 Data challenge! Their submission, titled “A Model for Predicting Need for Hospitalization,” earned …
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 …
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 …