Latest News in Biostatistics

Two distinguished Yale professors, Dr. Hongyu Zhao, PhD, and Dr. Mark Gerstein, PhD, have been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) to advance the Developmental Genotype-Tissue Expression (dGTEx) project. This landmark initiative aims to unravel the complexities of gene expression patterns across developmental stages, providing critical insights into genetic influences on health and disease.

Funded by the National Library of Medicine, the project aims to improve the reliability of AI-generated responses in medical applications, ensuring more accurate and trustworthy information to support better health care decisions.

Aging is a natural process that unfolds as our bodies move through different stages of life. Research focused on aging is an interdisciplinary field, transcending geriatrics and spanning throughout internal medicine, public health, and many other disciplines. In recent years, the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center has focused on building partnerships and increasing resources on campus for faculty and trainees interested in pursuing aging research.

Pollutants from fires can travel great distances and have the potential to affect human health thousands of kilometers away. In a new study, researchers from the Yale School of Public Health investigated whether long-term exposure to fine particles in wildfire smoke was associated with increases in causes of death.

This Alumni Spotlight focuses on Huangdi (Denise) Yi, PhD ’20 (Biostatistics).

A YSPH-led research team is investigating innovative new ways to identify and mitigate outbreaks of HIV among people who use drugs.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently granted Rohan Khera, MD, MS, a $3.8 million R01 award for his project, “Translating Personalized Inference from Randomized Clinical Trials to Real-World Cardiovascular Care.” This is the first systematic study to examine potential approaches to extract individualized information from randomized clinical trials.

Mukherjee is a leader in the field of public health statistics and data science who recently joined the Yale faculty.

Dr. Ariel Chao became the first PhD graduate of the Department of Biostatistics' new Implementation and Prevention Science Methods Pathway in May. She also earned her MPH in biostatistics from YSPH in 2020.