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- November 2009: The American Cancer Society -- the nation's leading voluntary health organization and largest non-governmental investor in cancer research -- will present its highest honor, the Medal of Honor, to four Americans who have made outstanding contributions to the fight for a world with less cancer and more birthdays. This year's winners, who will receive their awards at a ceremony during the American Cancer Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles, are: Arnold J. Levine, Ph.D., and Edward E. Harlow, Ph.D., for Basic Research; Marvin Zelen, Ph.D., for Clinical Research; and Lance Armstrong for Cancer Control. The Society's Medal of Honor will be Awarded on November 19.
- September 2009: We are proud to welcome Giovanni Parmigiani, a noted leader in applying bioinformatics tools to cancer studies and medical decision-making, as the new chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology.
- March 2009: "Integrating Clinical and Genomics Data", BioIT World cover story about John Quackenbush and his work with Edie Weller and Joe White and mining patient data.
- February 17, 2009 - It is with great pride that we announce that Meredith Regan has been appointed to the position of IBCSG Group Statistician. Meredith has been a senior statistician in the IBCSG Statistical Center since 2003, and has contributed enormously to the scientific mission of the Group. This appointment recognizes her considerable contributions to the IBCSG, will facilitate her interactions with international investigators, and assures that outstanding statistical collaboration will remain a strength of IBCSG for the future.
The Department proudly announces that Professor Marvin Zelen has been selected to receive the American Cancer Society 's Medal of Honor for 2009. This is the highest honor bestowed by the ACS and is given annually for outstanding contributions to cancer control in three categories. Dr. Zelen will receive the award for the clinical research category at the ACS's annual meeting in Los Angeles on November 19, 2009. Congratulations Dr. Zelen! -
December 2008: Rich Gelber will be a co-recipient of the Brinker Award, given at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Conference. This is a very prestigious award and probably is the most distinguished scientific award given for breast cancer research. The Brinker Award is accompanied by a $20,000 award to be used to further the recipients' activities in breast cancer research. This award has grown in prominence in the breast cancer community and is a marquee award for Komen for the Cure. The recipients of the Brinker Awards will deliver plenary lectures and will also be honored at the 31st Annual San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, at a special dinner on December 11.
- June 2, 2008: We are pleased to announce that Cheng Li has been promoted to Associate Professor. Cheng is a generous and productive member of the Department, and his work on dChip and dChipSNP have made important contributions to computational biology and to cancer research. Congratulations to Cheng for on his well-deserved promotion!
- May 2008: Megan Othus has won one of the four Byar Travel Awards to attend the Joint Statistical Meetings this summer. Megan will be presented with a certificate and a $500 award at the Biometrics Section Business Meeting at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Denver on the evening of Monday, August 4, 2008. Megan is working on her doctoral dissertation under the guidance of Dr. Yi Li. Her topic is analysis of survival data with complex censoring mechanisms arising from large-scale population-based studies. Congratulations Megan!
- April 2008: The Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology has moved to the new Center for Life Sciences Building (CLSB)! Our new offices on the 11th floor were recently completed, and our conference rooms will soon boast the latest in video and teleconferencing. We are located at 3 Blackfan Circle, near the Children's Hospital main entrance.
March 2008: Cheng AS, Culhane AC, Chan MW, Venkataramu CR, Ehrich M, Nasir A, Rodriguez BA, Liu J, Yan PS, Quackenbush J, Nephew KP, Yeatman TJ, Huang TH. Epithelial progeny of estrogen-exposed breast progenitor cells display a cancer-like methylome. Cancer Res. 2008 Mar 15;68(6):1786-1796.
March 2008: Megan Othus has won an International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR) Distinguished Student Paper Award for the 2008 ENAR Spring Meeting in Virginia. The award was based on her paper entitled "A Class of Semiparametric Mixture Cure Survival Models with Dependent Censoring", as part of thesis under the supervision of Dr. Yi Li. Congratulations, Megan!
- September 2007: Martin Aryee was awarded the top student poster prize at the Microarray and Gene Expression Data Society meeting in Brisbane, Australia. The title of his poster is "Analyzing Differential Gene Expression on Time Course Data". Congratulations, Martin!
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