Dr. Thomas Fleming, a UW faculty member in biostatistics, is involved in two large clinical trials engaging more than 6,000 people at high risk for acquiring HIV infection.
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Headlines featuring UW Biostatistics people and research.
Washington’s World AIDS Day Highlights
https://www.aspph.org/washingtons-world-aids-day-highlights/,
Biostatistics Chair Receives $2.8 Million NIH Grant to Lead Data Coordinating Center
UW School of Public Health,
Patrick Heagerty, department chair and professor of biostatistics, has received $2.8 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to lead the data coordinating center for a study of non-drug approaches for preventing chronic low back pain.
Phys Org,
Jonathan Wakefield, professor of biostatistics and statistics at UW co-authored this interesting study that analyzed RNA sequences in a dataset called the Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) Project.
Gone but not forgotten: how ancient Neanderthal genes still affect modern people
The Verge,
DNA inherited from Neanderthals affects which of our genes are turned on or off, according to a study published today in Cell. This phenomenon, called regulation of gene expression, means that traits such as height and susceptibility to diseases like schizophrenia or lupus may be affected in people with Neanderthal ancestry, say scientists from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Twenty-seven UW faculty listed among ‘world’s most influential scientific minds’ by Thomson Reuters
UW Today,
Ross Prentice, Garnet Anderson and John Crowley are recognized.