Biostatistics & Bioinformatics News

On April 22, 2025, Jonathan Hui will be honored with the Forever Duke Student Leadership Award.

Sayan Mukherjee, PhD, a professor of statistical science, mathematics, and biostatistics and bioinformatics,&nbs

Xiaoyue Ni, Assistant Professor of the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, is creating flexible electronics that go on a person’s skin to monitor everything from heart rate to muscle activity to brain function in real time.

The Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics ranks second in the nation in National Institutes of Health funding, based on grants awarded during the federal fiscal year ending September 30, 2024.

An artificial intelligence model developed by Duke Health researchers accurately predicted when adolescents were at high risk for future serious mental health issues before symptoms become severe.

The National Institutes of Health's proposal to cap reimbursement of facilities and administrative (F&A) costs on research grants at 15% would significantly slow or cease scientific and biomedical research at Duke and other research institutions. Here is an explanation of what F&A costs are and why they are such a critical piece of the research endeavor.

Data reveal a new era of lung cancer surgery — less invasive, more precise, and still life-saving.

Ronald Harris, MMCi, was accepted to the Duke University School of Medicine in 2020, just as COVID-19 was spreading through the world and changing health care.

Pulse oximetry has long been trusted as a key diagnostic tool. However, for patients with darker skin tones, this technology may not be accurate. A new grant aims to fix that.

A study from Zhicheng “Jason” Ji, PhD, found that one artificial intelligence large language model outperformed 85% of human programmers in writing computer code.