Department of Biostatistics 
News at a Glance
Kathy Welch and Goncalo Abecasis receive this year's excellence in teaching and research awards
At the School of Public Health Graduation this year (April 24, 2008) held in Hill auditorium, Kathy Welch of Biostatistics received the Excellence in Teaching Award and Goncalo Abecasis, also of Biostatistics received the Excellence in Research Award. Congratulations!
 
An SPH team works to reduce the dangers inherent in clinical trials
To the extent that our lives depend on drugs like Lipitor and on procedures like MRIs, they also depend on clinical trials—the experiments by which scientists ultimately prove the safety and efficacy of medications and treatments. To the human beings who participate in them, however, clinical trials pose risks. (Read more).
Zhang Xiaoxi' s manuscript selected for SBSS student paper award 2008
Zhang Xiaoxi' s manuscript was selected as one of the eight finalists of the SBSS student paper award 2008. Formal presentation will be made at the SBSS Mixer at the JSM (Tuesday, August 5 at 5:00 p.m.). Zhang Xaoxi was a Ph.D. student advised by Timothy Johnson and Roderick Little.
West, Welch, Galecki book gets excellent review
Brady West, Kathy Welch and Andrzej Galecki, with contributions from Brenda Gillespie, authored a book entitled "Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software" (Chapman Hall/ CRC Press, Dec. 2006). Their book received an excellent review in the March 2008 edition of JASA. Selected portions of the review read "...
[The authors] have done a superb job addressing linear mixed model (LMM) applications using commonly available, state-of-the-art statistical software", "... this book is all the authors intend it to be and more." and "Most importantly, material is presented in an easy-to-read, sensibly organized fashion, making the text valuable as a pedagogic aid and a ready reference". For the entire review and more information about the book, please visit:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bwest/almmussp.html.
Alumni Dawei Liu receives IBS 2007 Best Paper Award
Dawei Liu who graduated from the Biostatistics department in 2005 under the supervision of Xihong Lin and Ghosh Debashis has received an award from the International Biometric Conference for the best Biometrics Paper of 2007. The paper that he co-authored with both Xihong and Debashis will be presented at the IBS meeting in Ireland this summer. Congratulations!
Xiaoxi Zhang receives a travel award
Xiaoxi Zhang, a Biostatistics Ph.D. student advised by Dr. Timothy Johnson has won an ENAR travel award for her paper entitled "A Bayesian Image Analysis of the Change in Tumor/Brain Contrast Uptake Induced by Radiation". Congratulations!
Qixuan Chen receives a student paper award
Qixuan Chen, a Biostatistics Ph.D. student co-advised by Dr. Rod Little and Dr. Michael Elliott, has won a student paper award at the JSM 2008 for her paper entitled "Bayesian Penalized Spline Model-Based Estimation for Finite Population Proportion in Unequal Probability Sampling", in the Joint Social Statistics Section, Government Statistics Section, and Survey Research Methods Section Student Paper Competition. Congratulations!
Fang Liu receives "Key Innovator Award"
Fang Liu, a Biostatistics alumni received the Merck "Key Innovator Award" for working on Cordaptive, an investigational compound containing Merck's own extended-releaase niacin and laropripant. The award specifically targets individuals who are critical in the discovery or development of a clinical candidate or without whom key innovations could not have been made or the development program would not have progressed. Congratulations!
Qing Pan receives an ENAR Award
Qing Pan received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award for her manuscript entitled "Flexible modeling of additive treatment effects on the recurrent event mean in the presence of a terminating event". Congratulations!
This is the third ENAR award this year for students from the Biostatistics Department
Zhigo Li receives an ENAR Award
Zhigo Li received an ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award for his manuscript entitled "Weighted likelihood method for grouped survival data in case-cohort studies with application to HIV vaccine trials". Congratulations!
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