Department of Biostatistics

$3.4 million research grant targets risk of heart attack, stroke

August 16, 2024

https://news.vumc.org/2024/08/13/3-4-million-research-grant-targets-risk-of-heart-attack-stroke/

Professor Jonathan Schildcrout and associate professor Ran Tao are on this team, along with the analysts and app developers in our department who work closely with BioVU.

New VUMC study offers new methods to determine "safe" dosage of opioids

August 15, 2024

https://www.vumc.org/health-policy/news-events/new-vumc-study-offers-new-methods-determine-safe-dosage-opioids

Margaret Cullum promoted to program manager

Peg Duthie, senior program manager

August 15, 2024

We are pleased to announce the promotion of Margaret Cullum to program manager, in effect as of August 1.

Epigenetic change to DNA associated with cancer risk in "multi-omics" study

August 15, 2024

https://news.vumc.org/2024/08/07/epigenetic-change-to-dna-associated-with-cancer-risk/

This study was co-authored by professor Fei Ye.

Mario Davidson named director-elect of VUMC's Academy for Excellence in Education

August 15, 2024

https://news.vumc.org/2024/08/13/mario-davidson-named-director-elect-of-vumcs-academy-for-excellence-in-education/

First-authored paper in JAMIA by Siwei Zhang

Peg Duthie, senior program manager

August 13, 2024

https://www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistics-graduate/2024/08/siwei-zhang-is-first-author-of-jamia-paper/

Congratulations to PhD candidate Siwei Zhang, alumnus Nicholas Strayer (PhD 2020; now at Posit), senior biostatistician Yajing Li, and assistant professor Yaomin Xu on the publication of “PheMIME: an interactive web app and knowledge base for phenome-wide, multi-institutional multimorbidity analysis” in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on August 10.