Training Session: Biomarkers in Cancer Research

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  

It’s All Relative: Testing Differential Abundance in Compositional Microbiome Data

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 […]

Postdoc Open House

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 […]

Design and Implementation of Bayesian Adaptive Phase I Trials in Oncology using the DEDUCE Application

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

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

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 […]