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Attendees at the 2025 JSM Alumni Reception for UW Biostatistics and Statistics
Attendees at the 2025 JSM Alumni Reception for UW Biostatistics and Statistics
Alumni, student, and faculty highlights from JSM 2025
The University of Washington Biostatistics Department was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA).
Headshot of Carolyn hutter
Headshot of Carolyn hutter
Biostat alum named NHGRI Acting Director
Carolyn Hutter, a University of Washington alumnae, has been named Acting Director for Genetics & Epidemiology at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
Kendrick Li
Kendrick Li
Alumni Spotlight: Kendrick Li
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.
Garnet Anderson
Garnet Anderson
36 new members elected to Washington State Academy of Sciences
Washington State Academy of Sciences,

Congratulations to Garnet Anderson (PhD ’89), senior vice president and director of the Public Health Sciences Division at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center and an affiliate professor of biostatistics at the UW School of Public Health, who was one of 36 scientists named to the Washington State Academy of Life Sciences. 

R Yates Coley
R Yates Coley
Health Care Heroes: Yates Coley
Puget Sound Business Journal,

"As a biostatistician, I get to bring my quantitative and critical thinking skills to wide range of problems." Congratulations to Yates Coley, PhD, on their 2024 Health Care Heroes award from the Puget Sound Business Journal.

Photo of Xiudi Li standing in front of snowy peak.
Photo of Xiudi Li standing in front of snowy peak.
Xiudi Li named assistant professor at UC Berkeley
UW Biostatistics graduate Xiudi Li (PhD, ’22) joins faculty at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yiqun Chen
Yiqun Chen
Yiqun Chen joins biostatistics department at Johns Hopkins University
Congratulations to University of Washington Biostatistics alumnus Yiqun Chen (PhD, ’22) who will join the faculty at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the department of biostatistics in January 2025 as an assistant professor.
Peter Gilbert
Peter Gilbert
SARS-CoV-2 vaccine efficacy in Latin American countries
Fred Hutch News,

In our post-COVID pandemic world, several lingering questions remain pertaining to the culprit, SARS-CoV-2. While we can’t answer the question of, will another SARS-CoV-2 pandemic happen again? We can ensure our offensive game is stronger by striving to answer questions like, how good are the SARS-CoV-2 vaccines? UW Professor of Biostatistics Peter Gilbert is one of two Fred Hutch researchers who led a team that investigated these questions and recently published their findings in Nature Communications.

Kung-Yee Liang and Patrick Heagerty at the 2024 Norman E. Breslow Endowed Lecture, Seattle Washington
Kung-Yee Liang and Patrick Heagerty at the 2024 Norman E. Breslow Endowed Lecture, Seattle Washington
Distinguished alumni Kung-Yee Liang visits UW
University of Washington Biostatistics graduate Kung-Yee Liang, Distinguished Chair Professor and Senior Advisor for Office of the President at Feng Chia University and former president of the National Health Research Institutes of Taiwan, was the featured speaker at this year’s Norman E. Breslow Distinguished Lecture.
Benjamin French
Benjamin French
Biostatistics alumni elected to NCRP
University of Washington Biostatistics alumni Benjamin French (PhD ‘08) has been elected to the National Council for Radiation Protection and Measurements (NCRP) for a six-year term.