Latest News in Biostatistics
This month researchers examined hospital web page content about percutaneous closure of the left atrial appendage occlusion and clinical decision-making.
- October 25, 2022Source: YaleNews
The future of data science at Yale will reside on one of the top floors of a re-imagined Kline Tower on Science Hill, starting in 2023 — but the university, its researchers, and the new Institute for Foundations of Data Science (FDS) aren’t waiting for next year.
- October 25, 2022
Four new post-doctoral researchers enter Yale's Biomedical Data Science Fellowship program.
- October 24, 2022Source: The Daily Campus
Previous studies have shown the connection between age, exposure to carcinogens and the risk of developing cancer due to the accumulation of mutations over time. Scientists from Yale University and Emmanuel College demonstrate a new scientific approach to determine the origins of different types of cancer. Jeffrey Townsend, YSPH Elihu Professor of Biostatistics and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, was a co-author of the study.
- October 03, 2022
A grant will support the expansion of the NIH-DOD-VA Pain Management Collaboratory Coordinating Center directed by Robert D. Kerns, PhD, professor of psychiatry and of neurology and of psychology, and colleagues.
- August 23, 2022
A new R01 grant will strengthen collaborations between the Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Surgery.
- August 19, 2022
Heping Zhang, the Susan Dwight Bliss Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health, recently delivered the prestigious 2022 Neyman Memorial Lecture presented by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) – one of the highest honors in statistical societies.
- August 09, 2022
Faculty members from the Yale School of Public Health (YSPH) and Yale School of Medicine (YSM) recently joined an interdisciplinary group of students and researchers in Kuala Lumpur for a summer boot camp on implementation science.
- August 08, 2022
Colleen Chan, a PhD student in Yale's Department of Statistics and Data Science, won the Florence Nightingale award, co-sponsored by the International Biometric Society (IBS) and the Caucus for Women in Statistics (CWS) at the 31st International Biometric Conference (IBC 2022) held in Riga, Latvia. This award is given to "most outstanding eligible candidate who has demonstrated exceptional scholarship", where eligible candidates include students and early researchers within 5 years of their PhD.
- July 28, 2022
A new study by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health emphasizes the continuing importance of vaccines and booster shots at the individual and population level in controlling infections from highly contagious new variants of COVID-19.