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Washington Biostatistician Contributes to Study Linking Illegal Ivory to Three Major Cartels in Africa
ASPPH Connect,

An international team led by scientists at the University of Washington have used DNA to identify three major networks responsible for smuggling large shipments of ivory out of Africa.

CHOICE faculty member, Aasthaa Bansal, awarded highly coveted NIH Merit Award
UW School of Pharmacy,

Congratulations to UW Biostatistics alum Aasthaa Bansal (MS ’08, PhD ’11) on her NIH Merit Award! She's currently an assistant professor with the UW School of Pharmacy.

Kenneth Rice
Kenneth Rice
Breakthrough study identifies 535 genes that influence blood pressure
UW School of Public Health,

Ken Rice is a co-author on an international team which has newly identified more than 500 genetic regions that influence people’s blood pressure in the largest global genetic study of blood pressure to date.

Photo of Robin Nance
Photo of Robin Nance
HIV care in the US sees big gains, but disparities remain
UW School of Public Health,

Robin Nance, UW Biostat grad (MS ’04) and current doctoral student in epidemiology, is among the lead authors of this new study. She's credit with helping to develop the statistical models "that formed the backbone of the paper.”

Peter Gilbert presenting work
Peter Gilbert presenting work
Dengue vaccine development taps new approach
UW News,

There is a new, innovative approach to dengue vaccine development, according to a paper published Aug. 20 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In the News
In the News
Ancient Bone Reveals Surprising Sex Lives of Neanderthals
NPR,

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, recently announced that they’d found something quite surprising: the bones of a child who had a Neanderthal for a mother and a Denisovan for a father. Sharon Browning, a professor of biostatistics and a statistical geneticist at the University of Washington, says the finding was "like catching something as it's happening."

In the News
In the News
UW researchers contribute to international study finding genetic link to psychiatric disorders
UW Department of Epidemiology,

UW Biostatistics researchers Ellen Wijsman and Kenneth Rice contributed to this study relating to similar gene variations in psychiatric brain disorders.

Peter Gilbert presenting work
Peter Gilbert presenting work
5 questions on dengue vaccine analysis
Fred Hutch News,

Asked to help re-examine clinical trial data, Fred Hutch biostatisticians foresee a new era of personalized vaccines.