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PhD candidate Shengxin Tu has been named a recipient of Vanderbilt’s Provost Pathbreaking Discovery Award, which “recognizes doctoral students who exhibit exceptional academic excellence in publications, awards, patents, and other forms of national or international distinction” with $2,500 in supplemental funding. Tu is first author of a… Read More

Translational Science 2024 is underway, with the theme of “Translational Science Innovation to Increase Equity,” and the presenters have included two current students. PhD candidate Maximilian Rohde is primary author of Participation of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in Decentralized Trials: The ACTIV-6 Experience, and MS student Julia Whitman… Read More

ENAR 2024 is taking place in Baltimore this week, and participants from Vanderbilt Biostatistics have included the following: PhD student Lydia Yao chaired an invited session, “Knowledge Synthesis Between Psychometric and Neuroimaging Methods: Network Modeling, Latent Factors and More” PhD candidate Kaidi Kang presented a talk, “Study Features… Read More

Congratulations to recent PhD graduate Chiara Di Gravio and her dissertation advisers, professor Jonathan Schildcrout and associate professor Ran Tao, on the publication of Efficient designs and analysis of two-phase studies with longitudinal binary data in the March 2024 issue of Biometrics. The paper presents a flexible full-cohort analysis… Read More

PhD candidate Shengxin Tu, who presented a seminar on between- and within-cluster Spearman rank correlations last week, is first author of a methods paper titled Rank intraclass correlation for clustered data that Statistics in Medicine published in 2023 (online in August and in print in October), with… Read More

We are thrilled to celebrate the graduations of Hannah Weeks and Elisa Yazdani. Weeks defended her dissertation, “Overcoming Challenges with Real World Data and Clinical Restrictions in Pharmacokinetic Analyses,” in October. Yazdani’s master’s thesis is titled “A Pipeline for High-Throughput Drug Screening,” and she… Read More

PhD candidate Max Rohde is first author on “Practical and Statistical Considerations for the Long Term Follow-Up of Gene Therapy Trial Participants” published recently in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. The paper outlines “some of the key considerations for designing long term follow-up protocols in the gene therapy setting” and offers… Read More

Interested in becoming a biostatistician? Join us on Thursday, November 9, at 6 p.m. Central Time for our virtual info session on applying to our graduate program. Hear directly from our directors of graduate studies and recruitment about what they look for in prospective MS and PhD students,… Read More

PhD candidate Hannah L. Weeks will defend her dissertation on Tuesday, October 24, at 10 a.m. Central Time, at 2525 West End Avenue, in the 10th floor conference room (suite 1020, room 10105). Her advisor is Matthew Shotwell. All are invited and encouraged to attend. Overcoming Challenges with… Read More

We are delighted to welcome these new students to our program this fall: Kaixing “Charlie” Liu is a new student in our MS program. A native of China, he majored in biological science at Tsinghua University, minoring in economics and statistics. His studies there shaped his interest in the… Read More