Biostatistics & Bioinformatics News

Nikki Freeman, PhD, assistant professor of biostatistics & bioinformatics, received a PhD in biostatistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2023. She earned a Master of Arts in statistics from Washington University in St. Louis in 2022 and a Master of Arts in Economics from Duke University in 2009. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Texa A&M University in 2007.

We are thrilled to announce that Biostatistics Postdoctoral Associate Qiao Wang has been honored with 2025 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Early Career Paper Award as one of four recipients by the

The National Institutes of Health has awarded a team from the Duke Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and the Duke Department of Surgery more than $5 million over five years to develo

A team led by Rohit Singh, PhD, has developed a computational technique that allows large language models to predict antibody structures more accurately. The work, which could aid in finding new treatments for infectious diseases, is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Susan “Nicki” Hastings, MD, MHS, was named chief for the Division of General Internal Medicine, effective December 16, 2024. Dr. Hasting’s clinical and academic interests in health science research build on the legacy of former division chiefs, Dr. Eugene Oddone and Dr. Ebony Boulware.

Does Ed Hammond, PhD, process oxygen twice as fast as the average man? It’s as good as any other explanation for how the esteemed biomedical informatician climbed Mt.

It took until he was 20 years old before Samuel Ndukwe first saw a physician who looked like him. Recognizing that representation matters, the second-year Duke medical student is now doing all he can to make sure young Black men see themselves represented in the medical field much earlier than he did.

Biostatistics PhD student, Peijin Wang, has received one of the Student Paper Travel Awards from the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics (ICHPS). The award recognizes her paper titled “Integrating Randomized Controlled Trial and External Control Data Using Balancing Weights: A Comparison of Estimands and Estimators.”

Nicoleta J. Economou-Zavlanos, PhD, has been named director of the newly established Duke Health AI Evaluation & Governance Program. She will be charged with driving the trustworthy, responsible, and equitable integration of AI in health care.

The Web of Science ranking of the world’s most highly-cited scientists was released recently. These are the authors of influential papers that other scientists point to when making their arguments.