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Ancient misty landscape with mountains and jungle
Ancient misty landscape with mountains and jungle
Our mysterious cousins—the Denisovans—may have mated with modern humans as recently as 15,000 years ago
Science,

New study adds to findings published last year by UW Biostatistics Research Professor Sharon Browning.

Photo of Tessa Rue
Photo of Tessa Rue
New method to assess platelet health could help ER doctors
UW News,

Tessa Rue (MS ’06), a research scientist with UW Biostat’s Center for Biomedical Statistics, is among the co-authors of research that created a novel system to identify emergency room patients in need of a blood transfusion. 

Bruce Weir
Bruce Weir
GSA Grants 2019 Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education to Bruce Weir
Genes to Genomics: a blog from the Genetics Society of America,

Bruce Weir, PhD, of the University of Washington in Seattle is the recipient of the 2019 Genetics Society of America (GSA) Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education, in recognition of his work training thousands of researchers in the rigorous use of statistical analysis methods for genetic and genomic data.

Photo of Rebecca Yates Coley
Photo of Rebecca Yates Coley
Four CATALyST scholars selected to train as learning health system scientists
Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. ,

Biostatistics alum Rebecca Yates Coley (MS ’10, PhD ’14) is among the inaugural class of CATALyST scholars. The new program aims to train promising early-career scientists in the conduct of learning health systems research.

Table of observed counts of rotavirus-positive and negative diarrhea of any severety presenting
Table of observed counts of rotavirus-positive and negative diarrhea of any severety presenting
Impact of rotavirus vaccine introduction in children less than 2 years of age presenting for medical care with diarrhea in rural Matlab, Bangladesh
Clinical Infectious Diseases,

M. Elizabeth Halloran, UW professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, is one of the authors of a new-time-series analysis The study provides initial evidence of the population-level impact of rotavirus vaccines in children <2 years of age in Matlab, Bangladesh. 

Graphic of human head profile superimposed by DNA and computer code
Graphic of human head profile superimposed by DNA and computer code
‘More Data, More Problems:’ UW professor draws from experience to explain why big data is so complicated
The Daily of the University of Washington,

Daniela Witten, a statistics and biostatistics professor at the UW, delivered a lecture March 1 about the unique and modern research problems that stem from big data. Witten drew examples from her own work to illustrate the complicated nature of big data statistics. 

Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten
Of armchairs and whims: Finding a comfortable intersection between math and biology
The Daily of the University of Washington,

Daniela Witten gives a talk about her academic journey as part of the department of mathematics lecture series “MathAcrossCampus.”

Daniela Witten working at a whiteboard
Daniela Witten working at a whiteboard
A Statistician and A Neuroscientist Walk into a BRAIN Grant
Brain Initiative News,

The Brain Initative Alliance (BIA) met with sisters Daniela and Ilana Witten to talk about their research and how the funding they have received from NIH, NSF, and the Simons Foundation supports research together. (Video)