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NEWS September, 2008 Congratulations to our part-time faculty member Simon Day, who has been named a joint editor of the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A ("Statistics in Society")! Professor Rafael Irizarry is currently listed as the world's fourth most cited researcher in the general field of mathematics on the ISI Web of Knowledge. Dr. Irizarry's listing has been recognized in the current Johns Hopkins University Provost report to the University Leadership. Congratulations, Rafael! Congratulations to Giovanni Parmigiani and his colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center who, together with their co-authors, have published a pair of papers in the September 4 issue of Science Express. The papers are entitled "An Integrated Genomic Analysis of Human Glioblastoma Multiforme" and "Core Signaling Pathways in Human Pancreatic Cancers Revealed by Global Genomic Analyses." The former seeks to identify genetic alterations in the most common and lethal form of brain cancer, and the latter, to advance understanding of the pathogenesis of pancreatic cancer. August, 2008
Congratulations to Gary Chan and Benilton Carvalho, who successfully defended their PhD theses on August 19 and 21, respectively. Congratulations to Scott Zeger, who was awarded the Wilks Memorial Award from the American Statistical Association on August 5. This award recognizes contributions (either recent or past) to the advancement of scientific or technical knowledge, ingenious application of existing knowledge, or successful activity in the fostering of cooperative scientific efforts that have been directly involved in matters of national defense or public interest. July, 2008 Congratulations to Marco Carone, this year's recipient of the June B. Culley Award, which honors outstanding achievement by a Biostatistics student on the second-year paper! June, 2008 Congratulations
to Professor
Mei-Cheng Wang
and her colleagues on their grant, "Statistical Methods for HIV/AIDS Research,"
recently awarded by the NIAID for a four-year period. Professor Wang's
co-investigators include two other of our faculty, Drs.
Constantine
Frangakis and
Daniel Scharfstein,
and two external colleagues, Drs.
Ying
Qing Chen (Fred Hutchinson Clinical Research Center) and
Yijian
Huang (Emory). The research to be conducted will develop new
statistical models and methods to better address challenges for the
interpretation of survival, recurrent events and marker process data arising in
HIV/AIDS clinical trials and cohort studies and thus improve the accuracy and
precision of resulting findings. Congratulations to
Professor Rafael
Irizarry and his colleagues, whose 2003 Biostatistics paper "Exploration,
normalization, and summaries of high density oligonucleotide array probe level
data" has been named a "current classic" by
Essential Science Indicators.
Current Classics is a listing of papers per field having the greatest absolute
increase in cumulative citations from the previous bimonthly period to the
current period. Professor Irizarry's paper was the Current Classic in
Mathematics for the period October, 2007-December 2007. May, 2008 Congratulations
to Hopkins Biostatistics faculty and students
Roger Peng,
Howard Chang,
Aidan McDermott,
Scott Zeger
and
Francesca Dominici and their colleagues
Michelle Bell
(Yale University) and
Jon Samet (Johns Hopkins Epidemiology) for their
article in the May 14 issue of the Journal of the
American Medical Association investigating the health effects of course
particulate air pollution. April, 2008
Departmental
faculty and staff receiving special recognition for
teaching from the School of Public Health are:
John McGready and
Brian Caffo (Golden
Apple Award);
Ciprian Crainiceanu (Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award);
Brian Whitcomb (Teaching
Assistant Recognition Award); and
Patty Hubbard (Staff
Recognition Award).
March, 2008 Congratulations to this
year's departmental student award winners:
Sandy Eckel
(Helen
Abbey Award);
Marco Carone,
Bryan James, and
Bruce
Swihart (Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award);
Wenyi
Wang (Jane
and Steve Dykacz Award);
Gary Chan
and Yue
Yin (Margaret
Merrell Award). December, 2007
Gary Chan,
Chongzhi Di,
and Chi Wang
are recipients of ENAR Distinguished
Student Paper Awards. November, 2007
Simina Boca
is this year's recipient of the
Glaxo
SmithKline Award, sponsored by GSK to encourage interest in the field of
Biostatistics and honoring outstanding achievement on the Department of
Biostatistics first-year exam. October, 2007 Jointly-appointed
assistant professor
Frank Curriero's
paper "On
the use of non-Euclidean distance measures in geostatistics"
has just been chosen by the International Association for Mathematical Geology
as the best paper in their journal Mathematical Geology for 2006. Congratulations
to Professor
Giovanni Parmigiani and
PhD student
Simina Boca for their
contributions to the Science paper "The
genomic landscapes of human breast and colorectal cancers,"
by the Vogelstein team.
Professor Ron
Brookmeyer has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. It is one of the highest honors for those in the biomedical profession.
September, 2007 Assistant Professor
Roger Peng is
the winner of this year's chili cook-off. Click
here
to view a photo of all of our cook-off competitors and supporters with Roger,
who is sporting his trophy sombrero. June, 2007 In
a recent issue of Alzheimer's & Dementia,
professor
Ron Brookmeyer and colleagues estimate that
Alzheimer's disease cases will quadruple worldwide by
2050.
Read the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Press Release.
Assistant professor
Hongkai Ji has received
an award from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Richard L.
Gelb Cancer Research Fund. Dr. Ji was recognized for his work on decoding
transcriptional regulatory programs in tumors dependent on hedgehog signaling.
May, 2007
Professor
Francesca Dominici is
this year's
Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer at Harvard
University's Department of Biostatistics. Previous Hopkins faculty members who
have been so honored are
Steve Goodman,
Ron Brookmeyer, and
Giovanni Parmigiani.
Associate
Professor Rafael
Irizarry is the recipient of the American Statistical Association's 2007
W.J. Youden
Award in Interlaboratory Testing. Dr. Irizarry's recent paper on
multiple-laboratory comparison of microarray platforms was recognized for
its outstanding contributions to the design and/or analysis of interlaboratory
tests. PhD candidate
Sheng Luo
(advisor: Ciprian
Crainiceanu) is the recipient of a Young Investigator Award from the
American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE).
This award recognizes the best paper presented by a "Young Investigator" at a
session of the 2007 Joint Statistical Meetings sponsored by the SIE. PhD candidate
Bruce
Swihart has won second prize in the Mason F. Lord Lecture Poster Competition
for his poster "Compression of Multi-State Morbidity." The competition drew
entries from faculty, postdoctoral fellows and students in a diversity of
program, including the Departments of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Mental
Health, and Population, Family and Reproductive Health in the School of Public
Health, as well as the Division of Geriatrics and Gerontology in the School of
Medicine. Congratulations to Bruce on work that exemplified the power of
biostatistics to elucidate issues of import for public health and clinical
medicine!
Professor Marie
Diener-West has been chosen as the 2007 recipient of the
Ernest
Lyman Stebbins Medal. The award is given for outstanding teaching that
crosses multiple school departments. April, 2007 Departmental
faculty and students receiving special recognition for teaching
from the School of Public Health are: Ingo
Ruczinski
(Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award)
and Ming An (Teaching
Assistant Recognition Award).
March, 2007 Congratulations to this
year's departmental student award winners:
Ming An and
Robert
Scharpf for the
Helen
Abbey Award for Excellence in Teaching;
Robert
Scharpf for the
Margaret Merrell Award for Excellence in Research; and Susan Hutfless
(Epidemiology) and
Sheng Luo
(Biostatistics) for the
Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award for the Advancement of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics. Sheng has also received the following additional
honors for his research on the stochastic nature of tobacco addiction behavior:
the ENAR Distinguished Student Paper Award,
the IMS Laha Travel Award,
and Delta Omega
Alpha Chapter's Scientific Poster Competition overall winner. Professor
Francesca Dominici
is the recipient of the 2007 Gertrude M. Cox Award. Established in 2003 through
a joint agreement of RTI International and the Washington Statistical Society
(the Washington, DC, chapter of the American Statistical Association), this
award is given annually to recognize a statistician making significant
contributions to statistical practice.
Professor and Chair
Scott Zeger
has been awarded the
2007 Marvin
Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science from Harvard University's
Department of Biostatistics. This annual award was established to honor Dr.
Marvin Zelen's long and distinguished career as a statistician and his major
role in shaping the field of biostatistics and recognizes an individual in
government, industry, or academia, who by virtue of his/her outstanding
leadership, has greatly impacted the theory and practice of statistical science.
February, 2007
Visiting assistant professor
Derek Cummings
is the recipient of a
Career Award at the Scientific Interface, given by the Burroughs
Wellcome Fund to support physical and computational scientists entering
biology.
December, 2006 PhD candidate
Sheng Luo
has received an International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR)
Distinguished Student Paper Award for the 2007 ENAR Spring Meeting in Atlanta.
October, 2006
Scott Zeger has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine. Election to this prestigious body affirms his remarkable contributions to medical science, health care and public health. It is one of the highest honors for those in the biomedical profession.
See details.
September, 2006
Congratulations to
Sining Chen, assistant professor of EHS and Biostatistics,
Giovanni Parmigiani, Professor of Oncology and Biostatistics,
Wenyi Wang, Biostatistics PhD student, and their collaborators for their paper on MMPro, a statistical model that predicts colon cancer among at risk patients. The paper appears in the September 27, 2006, issue of the
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
July, 2006 View faculty member
Tom
Louis's
Presidential Address from the International
Biometric Society's XXIIIrd International Biometric Conference. PhD
candidate
Rob Scharpf is the
recipient of a BioC 2006 Student Contributor Award, co-sponsored by the American
Statistical Association's Section on Statistical Computing and the Bionconductor
Foundation of North America. June, 2006 Faculty
member
Karen Bandeen-Roche has
been named chairperson of NIH's Biostatistical Methods and Research Design Study
Section, Center for Scientific Review, for the term July 1, 2006 through June
30, 2008.
Faculty member
Francesca Dominici is the
recipient of the 2006 Mortimer Spiegelman Award, given each year by the
Statistics Section of the American Public Health Association in recognition of
outstanding contributions to public health statistics by a statistician under
the age of 40.
Postdoctoral fellow
Holly Janes
has received a Young Investigator Award from the
American Statistical Association's Statistics in Epidemiology Section. PhD
candidate
Yun Lu
has received a travel award to the 2006 Joint Statistical Meetings from the
American Statistical Association's Statistics in Epidemiology Section.
May, 2006 Faculty member
Marie Diener-West has been elected a Fellow of the
American Statistical Association. April, 2006 Departmental
faculty receiving special recognition for teaching are: Scott
Zeger (Golden
Apple Award) and Brian
Caffo (Advising,
Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award).
March, 2006 Congratulations to this year's departmental student
award winners:
Kenny Shum for the Helen
Abbey Award;
Brian Egleston for the
Jane
and Steve Dykacz Award;
Hormuzd Katki
for the Margaret
Merrell Award; and
Kelly Benke and Yun
Lu/J.Morel
Symons
for the Louis
I. and Thomas D. Dublin Award. Recent
work by
Francesca Dominici,
Roger Peng,
Michelle Bell,
Luu Pham,
Aidan McDermott,
Scott Zeger, and
Jonathan Samet on
associations between short-term exposure to fine
particulate matter and hospitalization was featured as
the lead article in the March 8 issue of the Journal of the American Medical
Association.
View the Bloomberg School of Public Health press release.
January, 2006 Recent
work on trauma-center care by Biostatistics alumna
Ellen
MacKenzie, faculty member
Daniel Scharfstein, PhD candidate
Brian
Egleston, and colleagues was featured in the January 26 issue of the New
England Journal of Medicine.
View the Bloomberg School of Public Health press release. December, 2005 Congratulations
to assistant professor
Ciprian Crainiceanu,
who is the 2006 recipient of the American Statistical
Association's Noether Young Scholar Award, which honors
research and teaching in nonparametric statistics.
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