Stories
Featured stories about UW Biostatistics people, research, and impact.
University of Washington Biostatistics staff member Maggie Tarnawa recently expanded her responsibilities as curriculum coordinator to include creating professional development programming for UW Biostatistics students. Learn more about the additional programs and resources Tarnawa has in the works for the upcoming year.
University of Washington researchers Sharon Browning and Seth Temple co-authored a study proposing new statistical methods for detecting signatures of strong natural selection that have occurred in humans in the past several thousand years.
Kendrick Li, PhD returned to UW as a guest presenter at the UW Biostatistics autumn seminar. Li graduated from the UW Biostatistics PhD program in 2021 and, after a postdoc at the University of Michigan, joined the faculty at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Read our interview with Li.
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Associate Professor of Biostatistics Amy Willis to develop and study a novel method to estimate bacterial evolutionary histories with $299k from the National Science Foundation.
A new method called FLARE was developed by UW Professor of Biostatistics Sharon Browning because existing software for inferring local ancestry was not able to handle the increasingly large amounts of genetic data that are available.
Ting Ye, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), a five-year $1.77 million grant that will fund Ye’s research group to develop innovative and advanced statistical methods to generate translational causal evidence from large-scale omics data.
The University of Washington Department of Biostatistics is seeking a new chair to lead a dedicated team of faculty, staff, and students who are passionate about developing and using rigorous quantitative methods to improve the well-being of communities in the United States and around the world.