Anru Zhang Receives COPSS Emerging Leader Award
Zhang is one of this year's winners of the COPSS Emerging Leader Award. Congratulations, Anru!
Huiman Barnhart Named James B. Duke Distinguished Professor
Huiman Barnhart is one of 18 faculty members from the Duke University School of Medicine to be awarded a distinguished professorships. The new distinguished professors will be honored at the annual distinguished professorship event on May 23, 2024.
Black History Month Highlight: Dr. Alisa Stephens-Shields
Dr. Alisa Stephens- Shields is currently an Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey and discovered her interest for problem-solving at a young age through various games and activities with her siblings and neighborhood friends.
Defense: Kaiyuan Hua
Kaiyuan Hua is set to defend his dissertation 'Design and Analysis of Clinical Trials with Restricted Mean Survival Time' in person and virtually.
Black History Month Highlight: Dr. David Blackwell
For Black History Month this year, students in the Biostatistics PhD program will highlight a Black statistician or biostatistician each week who has made tremendous contributions to the f
Fighting disease with a smartwatch? That’s genius.
In the U.S., an average of nearly 70,000 children under the age of 5 are hospitalized with RSV every year, and nearly 7 million people have died from COVID-19 worldwide. Jessilyn Dunn’s lab uses Al and machine learning to analyze data collected by devices such as smartwatches to ultimately predict and prevent outbreaks of RSV, COVID-19 and the flu as well as conditions such as adult-onset diabetes.
Svati Shah Named Associate Dean for Translational Research
The Duke University School of Medicine has announced that Svati H. Shah, MD, MS, MHS, has been named associate dean for translational research, effective immediately.
Bill Majoros, PhD, earns prestigious Maximizing Investigators' Research (MIRA) Award for Career in Genomics Research
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded Bill Majoros, PhD, assistant professor in the Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, a $1.9 million research grant.
Three Faculty Members Selected for Department Leadership Positions
The Duke Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics is excited to announce the promotion of three faculty members.
Duke Researchers Awarded $22 Million Grant to Develop Treatment Plan for Idiopathic Juvenile Arthritis
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) has awarded Duke University School of Medicine researchers more than $22 million to conduct a trial to develop a treatment protocol for children who have not responded to initial medication for Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.