May 19, 2021 10:00am-12:00PM Eastern Time Fangxin Hong, PhD Senior Research Scientist Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Tuesday May 25, 2021 1:00PM ET A conversation with Cristian Tomasetti Associate Professor, Department of Oncology, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center Moderator: Giovanni Parmigiani YouTube Video now available.
June 8, 2021 1:00PM Lorenzo Trippa, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute The Use of External Control Data for Predictions and Interim Analyses in Clinical Trials YouTube video now available.
June 16, 23, and 30, 2021 10:00am-12:00PM Eastern Time Haesook Kim, PhD Principal Research Scientist Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health RSVP: https://bit.ly/DSTSJune16
Tuesday September 14, 2021 1:00PM Eastern Time Holly Janes, Ph.D. Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Professor, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center YouTube video now available.
Tuesday, October 19, 2021 1:00pm Eastern Time Meredith Regan, ScD Associate Professor Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School Treatment-free Survival as a Novel Outcome Measure of Immuno-oncology-based Therapy YouTube Link
Thursday, October 28, 2021 11:00am Eastern Time Tengfei Li Georgetown University Causal Inference Methods for Measures of Health Disparities There is increased interest in the evaluation of health disparities between different socioeconomic groups using data from observational studies. However, in the absence of randomization, the results and conclusions may be limited to associations rather than […]
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Data Science announces its second annual Postdoc Recruitment Day to be held on Wednesday, November 3rd from 1-3pm EST. If you are interested in learning more about postdoctoral opportunities at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and would like to learn about the research our faculty are conducting, please sign up for […]
Tuesday, November 9, 2021 1:00pm Eastern Time Suyu Liu, PhD Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center A Bayesian Phase I/II Trial Design for Immunotherapy Immunotherapy is an innovative treatment approach that stimulates a patient's immune system to fight cancer. It demonstrates characteristics distinct from conventional chemotherapy and stands […]
Tuesday, December 7, 2021 1:00pm Eastern Time Giovanni Parmigiani, PhD Professor Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Link to YouTube Video Cancer on the Way to Mars Links: https://www.nap.edu/download/26155 https://www.env.go.jp/en/chemi/rhm/basic-info/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/real-martians-how-to-protect-astronauts-from-space-radiation-on-mars https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/space_radiation_ebook.pdf https://standards.nasa.gov/standard/nasa/nasa-std-3001-vol-1 https://spaceradiation.larc.nasa.gov/nasapapers/2020/5008710.pdf
Nathanael Fillmore is the Associate Director for Machine Learning and Advanced Analytics at the VA Boston Healthcare System’s Cooperative Studies Program Informatics Center. He leads a data science team focused on using machine learning and data science methods, in combination with the VA’s large clinical, genomic, and imaging databases, to generate knowledge and resources that […]
January 19 | 2022 | 1-4PM Eastern Time This annual symposium showcases the talent of early career investigators at the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center who work in population science, including epidemiology, biostatistics, outcomes, diversity, and cancer care delivery research, and early detection. This year, Ann Partridge, MD, MPH will be our keynote speaker. Dr. Partridge is […]
Friday February 4, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Register. Jian Hu PhD Candidate, Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Informatics University of Pennsylvania ABSTRACT: The advent of high-throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies has transformed our understanding of cell biology and human disease. As NGS has been adopted earliest by the scientific community, its use has now become […]
Tuesday, February 8, 2022 1:00pm Eastern Time YouTube Video Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, PhD, FSCT Vice President Center for Research and Analytics (CENTRA) Dr. Garrett-Mayer joined ASCO in 2017 as CENTRA’s Division Director for Biostatistics and Research Data Governance and became CENTRA’s first Vice President in 2022. CENTRA leads ASCO’s research efforts, including the TAPUR Study, ASCO’s […]
Tuesday February 15, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time William Lotter, PhD Vice President of Machine Learning, RadNet, Inc. Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder, DeepHealth, Inc. Register. Screening mammography has been estimated to reduce breast cancer mortality by 20-40%, but significant opportunities remain for improving access and overall quality. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to deliver […]
Thursday February 24, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Michele Peruzzi, PhD Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University Register. Abstract: In this talk, I will consider the problem of fitting Bayesian models with spatial random effects to large scale multivariate multi-type data from satellite imaging, land-based weather and air quality sensors, and citizen science, with […]
Monday February 28, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Genevieve Stein-O'Brien Instructor, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Department of Neuroscience; and McKusick-Nathans Department of Genomic Medicine Assistant Director, Johns Hopkins University Single Cell Consortium Register. Abstract: As the single-cell field races to characterize each cell type, state, and […]
Tuesday, March 1, 2022 1:00pm Eastern Time Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD Professor of Biostatistics University of Pennsylvania Perlman School of Medicine YouTube Video Abstract: Opportunities to use real-world data (RWD), including electronic health records (EHR) and medical claims data, have exploded over the past decade. The Covid-19 pandemic has provided a particularly dramatic illustration of […]
Friday, March 4, 2022 12:00PM Eastern Time Ani Eloyan, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Biostatistics, Brown University Register. Abstract: Cancer patients routinely undergo radiological evaluations where images of various modalities including computed tomography, positron emission tomography, and magnetic resonance images are collected for diagnosis and for evaluation of disease progression. Tumor characteristics, often referred to […]
Monday March 7th, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Ava Soleimany, PhD Senior Researcher, Biomedical Machine Learning Group at Microsoft Research, New England Abstract: Precision cancer medicine envisions a world where diagnostic and therapeutic opportunities are intelligently tailored to individual patient needs. Achieving this vision necessitates access to high quality, accurate, and individualized information about disease state. […]
The growing availability of informative datasets and software tools has led to increased reliance on data visualizations across many industries, academia, and government. News organizations are increasingly embracing data journalism and including effective infographics as part of their reporting, while in research we increasingly rely on data visualization to assess data quality and describe and […]
Maya Ramchandran Data Scientist, ZephyrAI Abstract: Adapting machine learning algorithms to better handle clustering or other partition structure within training data sets is important across a wide variety of biological applications. We first consider the task of learning prediction models when multiple training studies are available. We present a novel weighting approach for constructing tree-based ensemble […]
Jeremy M. Simon, Ph.D. (he/him/his) Associate Professor, Department of Genetics Co-Principal, Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC) Director, UNC Neuroscience Center Bioinformatics Core Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Register for Zoom Webinar. Establishing and maintaining proper transcriptional programs is central to both development and disease, and involves the […]
Wednesday June 15, 2022 10:00-12:00pm Eastern Time Nabihah Tayob, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Data Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard Medical School Zoom registration: https://bit.ly/TSJune22
BioC2022 will be held as a hybrid event in Seattle, WA on July 27-29, 2022. Virtual registration is now open. Tickets for in-person attendance are now on a waitlist. Click here to add your name to the list. Additional tickets may become available if restrictions are lifted. We will email the waitlist at the end […]
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Series Tuesday September 13, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Yijuan Hu, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Rollins School of Public Health Emory University Register for Zoom link Abstract: Studies on the human microbiome have revealed that differences in microbial communities are associated with many human disorders such as inflammatory […]
The Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Department of Data Science announces its third annual Postdoc Open House Day on Friday, October 14th, 12pm-7pm in person. If you are interested in learning more about postdoctoral opportunities at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and would like to learn about the research our faculty are conducting, please sign up for this free […]
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Series Tuesday November 1, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Register for in-person or virtual attendance. Wendy London, PhD Associate Professor, Harvard Medical School Director of Biostatistics, Boston Children’s Hospital Clement Ma, PhD Assistant Professor, University of Toronto Independent Scientist, CAMH
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday December 6, 2022 1:00PM Eastern Time Register for Zoom link. Jessie Tenenbaum, PhD she / her / hers Chief Data Officer NC Department of Health and Human Services
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday January 24, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Click to watch the YouTube video. Peter Mueller, PhD Professor Department of Statistics and Data Sciences Department of Mathematics University of Texas at Austin
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday February 14, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time YouTube video Emily Zabor, DrPH Assistant Staff Biostatistician Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at the Cleveland Clinic, with a joint appointment in the Taussig Cancer Institute Assistant Professor of Medicine, the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Thursday March 2, 2023 1:00pm ET Hillary Heiling Biostatistics PhD candidate University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Add to calendar Hillary’s statistical focus has primarily been in cancer-related research, both through her graduate research assistant role in the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as her personal research applications. In cancer research as well as […]
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Wednesday March 29, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Pixu Shi, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Division of Integrative Genomics Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics Duke University School of Medicine Abstract: The analysis of longitudinal microbiome is crucial to the understanding of how microbiome changes over time. It often requires careful […]
Zelen 2023 Program The 2023 Marvin Zelen Memorial Symposium featuring talks by: Andy Beck (Co-founder & CEO, Path AI) Emerging Methods in Machine Learning and Applications for Digital Pathology Jonathan Chen (Instructor in Pathology, MGH) Multicellular Networks: Immunity Hubs in Human NSCLC Marzyeh Ghassemi (Assistant Professor, MIT) Designing Machine Learning Processes For Equitable Health Systems […]
Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday May 9, 2023 1:00PM Eastern Time Join the Zoom. Fan Li, PhD Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health Cluster-randomized experiments are increasingly used to evaluate interventions in routine practice conditions, and researchers often adopt model-based methods with covariate adjustment in the statistical analyses. However, the validity of model-based […]
We are incredibly excited that Bioc2023 the annual Bioconductor meeting will be in Boston at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute from August 2-4. It is a hybrid meeting to enable maximum outreach to our global community. Registration is now open and scholarships are available. Contact us for sponsorship opportunities. Speakers include: JJ Allaire (Founder and CEO […]
