Fred Hutch will act as coordinating center for a large study of cardiovascular and other chronic diseases in overlooked populations. UW Biostatistics faculty members and Hutch researchers Garnet Anderson and Kwun Chuen (Gary) Chan are part of the center’s leadership team. Affiliate faculty member Li Hsu is also part of the new study .

The Department of Biostatistics at the University of Washington is strongly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. To this end, during the academic year 2023-2024, we are launching the pre-application review service (PARS) initiative to provide support and mentorship to PhD applicants.

A tribute to Dr. Bruce Weir celebrating his career contributions and legacy at University of Washington.

After 58 years at the University of Washington, Dick Kronmal, co-director of the Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, professor of biostatistics and statistics, and a founding member of the Department of Biostatistics, retired on June 1.

Rebecca A. Hubbard, PhD, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Pennsylvania and alumna of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics (PhD, ‘07) has been honored with the 2023 Gertrude M. Cox Award.

Celebrating the career of Ross Prentice, professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, who retires at the end of this year.

Tracy Bergemann (PhD ’04) found little support or understanding for First Gen students during her time as a UW Biostatistics graduate student. Resources for First Gen students have improved over the years but significant challenges remain.

“My advice is to just keep putting one foot in front of the other day by day, and find your allies where you can,” said Bergemann.

“It’s a multivitamin industry with really limited data to support their use,” said Dr. Garnet Anderson ('89), director of the Public Health Sciences Division of Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. “At least not here in the U.S. where we have access to high-quality foods.”

Internationally renowned biostatistician Dr. Xihong Lin, Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, will be the recipient of the 2022 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science 

A multi-division collaboration took a broad, sequence-based approach to reveal which SARS-CoV-2 proteins may drive COVID-19 related hospitalization. These findings were published recently in Scientific Reports. Fred Hutch researcher and University of Washington Professor of Biostatistics Peter Gilbert contributed to this work.