First-authored paper in Biometrics by Chiara Di Gravio

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
February 20, 2024
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 method known as an efficient sieve maximum likelihood estimator (SMLE).

VN-BioStat report in International Journal of Statistics and Probability

February 6, 2024
The final 2023 issue of International Journal of Statistics and Probability included "The Vanderbilt Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program (VN-BioStat): Results from a Skills Workshop." Professor and principal investigator Bryan Shepherd is first author of this paper, written in collaboration with Vanderbilt colleagues in the Institute for Global Health, the Division of Infectious Diseases, the Department of Health Po

Welcome - Mackenzie Stuenkel

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
February 5, 2024
We are excited to welcome Mackenzie Stuenkel to the department and the Vanderbilt Biostatistics Data Coordinating Center Data Management Unit. Dr. Stuenkel earned her PhD in applied health research and evaluation from Clemson University, and then worked as lead research specialist at the Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy, a division of Prisma Health Children's Hospital.

Mackenzie Stuenkel

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Stuenkel
Research Data Specialist
(615) 322-2001
Delivery Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Room / Suite
11138D
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
mackenzie.stuenkel@vumc.org

PhD, Applied Health Research and Evaluation, Clemson University

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Simon Vandekar promoted to associate professor

Peg Duthie, senior program manager
February 1, 2024
We are pleased to announce the promotion of Dr. Simon Vandekar (left, with VN-Biostat fellows Rukayya Alkassim and Safiya Sada Sani and perhaps a future biostatistician) to associate professor of biostatistics (investigator track, with tenure), effective as of February 1.

Welcome - Lauren E. King

Peg Duthie, Senior Program Manager
January 29, 2024
We are delighted to welcome Lauren E. King to the department as our new research program manager. King earned her bachelor's degree in nutrition and wellness, with a minor in public health, from Auburn University, followed by her master's of public health with a concentration in epidemiology from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Lauren King

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King
Senior Project Manager (2024–2025)

Presentations and posters:

Dorand RD, Robinson M, King L, Schremp EA, Miranda AX, Colazo JM, Park BH, Luo LY, Shu XO, Pal T, Friedman DL, Davis EJ. Next generation sequencing reveals targetable mutations in multiple sarcoma histologies. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. June 4, 2023. Chicago, IL.

Davis EJ, Schremp EA, Koyama T, Sun L, King L, Keedy VL, Robinson MJ, Shinohara E, Pal T, Park BH, Shu XO, Friedman DL. A prospective study evaluating the association of patient-reported outcomes with activity level and sleep patterns in sarcoma survivors. American Society of Clinical Oncology Annual Meeting. June 4, 2023. Chicago, IL.

Dorand RD, Robinson M, King L, Schremp EA, Miranda AX, Colazo JM, Park BH, Luo LY, Shu XO, Pal T, Friedman DL, Davis EJ. Next generation sequencing reveals targetable mutations in multiple sarcoma histologies. Connective Tissue Oncology Society Annual Meeting. November 2, 2023. Dublin, Ireland.

Davis EJ, Schremp EA, Koyama T, Sun L, King L, Keedy VL, Robinson MJ, Shinohara E, Pal T, Park BH, Shu XO, Friedman DL. A prospective study evaluating the association of patient-reported outcomes with activity level and sleep patterns in sarcoma survivors. Connective Tissue Oncology Society Annual Meeting. November 2, 2023. Dublin, Ireland.

MPH (Epidemiology Concentration), University of Alabama at Birmingham

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Ishaan Gadiyar

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Gadiyar
Research Intern
SyBBURE Searle Program
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue, Suite 1100
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
ishaan.v.gadiyar@vanderbilt.edu

Class of 2026, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Vanderbilt University

Mentor: Simon Vandekar

 

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scKWARN: a new method to remove technical biases

January 24, 2024
Congratulations to research assistant professor Chih-Yuan Hsu, visiting PhD candidate Chia-Jung "Charlene" Chang, and professors Qi Liu and Yu Shyr on the publication of scKWARN: Kernel-weighted-average robust normalization for single-cell RNA-seq data in Bioinformatics, with Liu and Shyr as corresponding authors. 
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