Cara Lwin
MS student / Associate Biostatistician
Office Address
2525 West End Avenue
Room / Suite
Suite 1100
Nashville
Tennessee
37203
Phone
(615) 322-2001
Advisor: Dandan Liu
BS, Microbiology (minors in Chemistry, Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Economics), University of Pittsburgh
Activities include:
- Biostatistics Graduate Student Association Vice President, 2021–2022
Publications include:
- "Severity of Respiratory Syncytial Virus vs COVID-19 and Influenza Among Hospitalized US Adults" (JAMA Network Open 2024)
- "Interim Effectiveness of Updated 2023-2024 (Monovalent XBB.1.5) COVID-19 Vaccines Against COVID-19-Associated Emergency Department and Urgent Care Encounters and Hospitalization Among Immunocompetent Adults Aged ≥18 Years - VISION and IVY Networks, September 2023-January 2024" (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2024, as a member of "CDC COVID-19 Vaccine Effective Collaborators")
- "Neuropathy target esterase activity predicts retinopathy among PNPLA6 disorders" (preprint at bioRxiv 2023)
- "LigGrep: a tool for filtering docked poses to improve virtual-screening hit rates" (Journal of Cheminformatics 2020)
- "Genetic testing for inherited eye conditions in over 6,000 individuals through the eyeGENE network" (American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part C 2020)