Biostatistics & Bioinformatics News

Michael Pencina, PhD, vice dean for data science, professor of biostatistics and bioinformatics at Duke University School of Medicine, and director of Duke AI Health, has been named Duke Health's first chief data scientist.

Boris Kantor and Ornit Chiba-Falek described an epigenome therapy platform based on CRISPR/dCas9-editing strategy intended to reduce APOE-e4 at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference

Duke’s School of Medicine awarded Pan Xu, PhD, an assistant professor in Duke’s Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, the Whitehead Scholars Program Award during this year’s faculty awards ceremony.

At a May 13 private ceremony held at University Club in University tower, 48 students graduated from the Master of Biostatistics program in the Duke Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics.

Duke University has awarded Distinguished Professorships to David Page, Phd, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Susan Halabi, PhD, co-Chair of the Division of Biostatistics, and faculty members Eric Laber, PhD, and Jian Pei, PhD.

The Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics is celebrating the successful completion of the 2023 Duke-Industry Statistics Symposium (DISS2023). 

A multidisciplinary team of Duke clinicians, bioinformaticians, statisticians, and researchers with high-throughput genomics expertise is hoping their work will lead to more treatment options for IPF patients that will improve both their quantity and quality of life.

Anru Zhang, PhD, has been awarded the Data Science Distinguished Paper Award by the American Medical Informatics Association for ‘Timeline Registration for Electronic Health Records.’

Transcription factors bind to DNA to help control gene regulation.