New Cell Reports Medicine: paper on heart failure co-authored by statistical genetic analyst Joey Stolze, assistant professor Shilin Zhao, and associate professor Tiger Sheng, plus colleagues @vumc_medicine (including @perrycardium Kaushik Amancherla) sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #proteomics

Applications for our graduate program are due 1/1/2025. Visit our website to learn about the requirements, life in Nashville, current students and alumni, and more! vanderbilt.edu/biostatistics-…

We're hosting "Improving Your Odds: Optimizing Your Vanderbilt Biostatistics Application" on October 3 at 6 pm Central on Zoom. Register for access: vanderbilt.zoom.us/meeting/regist… Applications for Fall 2025 entry are due January 1.

Join us for a virtual seminar tomorrow, September 11, by Dr. Hongtu Zhu (professor UNC Public Health) on uniting statistics and AI for revolutionizing medical data analysis and more. Visit our website for details and access. #statistics #ai #dataanalysis vumc.org/biostatistics/…

In #ACTIV6Study, participants, researchers, and clinicians are working together to understand how we can help people with #COVID19 #FeelBetterFaster and prevent hospitalization. Learn more: activ6study.org

New National Cancer Institute's Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Tech news - a feature on the GammaGateR package authored by PhD candidate Jiangmei Ruby Xiong w/Simon Vandekar Ken Lau Lab Siyuan Ma & more. #RStats #imaging #cancer #biomarkers datascience.cancer.gov/news-events/ne…

Co-authored by research assistant professor Li-Ching Huang with colleagues FLORIDA and Ohio State Wexner Medical Center Surgery Dept.

Published last month Pulmonary Circulation: pilot observational study on carnitine in PAH (pulmonary arterial hypertension) patients, co-authored by assistant in biostatistics Hui Nian w/colleagues @VUMC_medicine @vumclung Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences (biochemistry) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39157054/

Recently published Journal of Renal Nutrition: paper on anorexia and protein energy wasting in moderate and advanced chronic kidney disease, co-authored by senior biostatistician Andrew Guide and professor Robert Greevy with colleagues Vanderbilt Kidney and in Ankara, Turkey sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Last week Drew Levy and I presented a 4-day Regression Modeling Strategies at StatisticAlps, a recurring program led by Maria Grazia Valsecchi. The stunning Italian Alps was an amazing place to give a course and the participants were wonderful summerschoolbicocca.com #rmscourse

Dr. Lotspeich earned her PhD in biostatistics from Vanderbilt! #DataDonutsAndDollyParton

Co-authors include David Schleuter, PhD biostatistics Vanderbilt University 2018

ICYMI, one of these papers (Hung et al.) was co-authored by department members Hua-Chang Chen, Zhihong Yu, Michael Matheny & Ran Tao x.com/vandy_biostat/…

Dr. Alan Storrow collaborated with Vanderbilt Department of Biostatistics -Tianyi Sun and Dr. Liu w/Allison B. McCoy, PhD, ACHIP, FACMI, FAMIA in their latest paper in Statistics in Medicine - Addressing the implementation challenge of risk prediction model due to missing risk factors pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39264051/

Want to learn more about the #RepurposedDrugs that #ACTIV6Study tested for at-home treatment of #COVID19? Visit activ6study.org to learn about each medication that was evaluated in the clinical trial.

With Yuwei Zhu and Cass Johnson!

We welcome Dr. Reese, who joins the biostatistics faculty as well as VUMC Surgical Sciences and VUMC Department of Medicine.

Congratulations to Dr. Dooley, whose collaborations have included work with associate professor Matt Shotwell and PhD 2021 Ryan Jarrett. VUMC Infectious Diseases is partnering with us, The Aurum Institute & Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health to make possible our recent hiring of Qingyan Xiang (more on that soon!).

In Bioinformatics: scPS, a new method for calculating power and sample sizes based on generalized estimating equations, by research assistant professor Chih-Yuan Hsu and professors Qi Liu and Yu Shyr academic.oup.com/bioinformatics… #RStats #scRNAseq

Recently accepted Am J Epidemiology: COVID-19 household transmission study co-authored senior associate Yuwei Zhu with colleagues @vumc_medicine Vanderbilt Dept. of Health Policy Westat CDC Columbia University Stanford Medicine UNC-Chapel Hill U.S. FDA Columbia Medicine and more academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar…