A Nonparametric Bayesian Approach to Use RWD in Clinical Trial Design

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  

Using the Case Study of Atezolizumab Development to Rethink Early Phase Oncology Trial Design

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

Computation of High-Dimensional Penalized Generalized Linear Mixed Models

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 […]

Dimension Reduction of Longitudinal Microbiome Data

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 […]

Machine Learning in Medical Imaging: From New Techniques to Clinical Translation

Simmons University 300 The Fenway, Boston, MA, United States

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 […]

Model-robust and Efficient Covariate Adjustment for Cluster-randomized Experiments

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 […]

BioC2023: the Bioconductor Annual Conference

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1 Jimmy Fund Way, Boston, MA, United States

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 […]

Forecasting pancreatic carcinogenesis from spatial multi-omics

Center of Life Sciences, Room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, United States

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday September 26, 2023 @ 10am ET Center for Life Sciences Building, Room 11081 Elana Fertig, PhD Division Director of Oncology Quantitative Sciences, Professor of Oncology Johns Hopkins University YouTube Video Combining genomics with mathematical modeling provides a forecast system that can yield computational predictions to anticipate cancer progression and therapeutic […]

AI in Medical Imaging: Current State & Future Opportunities

Center of Life Sciences, Room 11081 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA, United States

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday October 24, 2023 @ 1pm ET Center for Life Sciences Building, Room 11081 William Lotter, PhD Assistant Professor, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School YouTube Video Want to get our weekly events newsletter? Click here!

Single-cell Multiomic Exploration of Oncogenic and Immunologic Programs in Melanoma and CLL

Center for Life Sciences, Zelen Commons 3 Blackfan Circle, Boston, MA

Elevate @ Eleven: Comp Bio Connections Wednesday November 8th, 2023 12:00-1:00PM In-person only, Zelen Commons, 11th floor of the Center for Life Sciences Building Jeremy Simon Senior Research Scientist, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Lunch is provided.  

Analyzing Big EHR Data – Optimal Cox Regression Subsampling Procedure with Rare Events

Frontiers in Biostatistics Seminar Tuesday December 5, 2023 @ 1pm ET YouTube Link Malka Gorfine, PhD Professor, Department of Statistics,  Tel Aviv University, Israel Abstract: Massive sized survival datasets become increasingly prevalent with the development of the healthcare industry, and pose computational challenges unprecedented in traditional survival analysis use cases. In this work we analyze […]