University of Washington Biostatistics

Founded in 1970, the Department of Biostatistics is a recognized leader in the statistical sciences. Its 78 faculty include a Member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, two Members of the Institute of Medicine and 20 Fellows of the American Statistical Association. Our postdoctoral and graduate students are among the most talented in the country, and 488 alumni hold leadership roles in academia, government and industry worldwide. The Department is a center of excellence for development and application of statistical methodology across the health sciences, and has collaborative partnerships with Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Children’s Hospital Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, and the Veteran’s Administration. To complement our research, we recently established the Center for Biomedical Statistics to provide consulting and collaborative services. For additional information, please explore our website or contact us.

The Department of Biostatistics welcomes two new faculty:

Research Associate Professor Sharon Browning joined the department on July 1. She was most recently a faculty member in Statistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. Her research interests include statistical genetics.

Assistant Professor Daniela Witten joined the department on September 1. She recently completed her PhD in Statistics at Stanford. Her research interests include the development of machine learning tools for genomic data.

Upcoming Events
October 8, 2010 Seattle, Washington	Symposium: Statistical and Genomic Challenges for Clinical Studies and Practice, hosted by UW Biostatistics and GlaxoSmithKline
October 21, 2010 Seattle, Washington	2010 Breslow Lecture, speaker: Neils Keiding, Professor, Institut for Folkesundhedsvidenskab, Biostatistisk Afdeling, hosted by UW Biostatistics
November 20-23, 2010 Sheraton Hotel Seattle, Washington	4th Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials, hosted by UW Biostatistics