University of Washington School of Public Health researchers are part of the new Population Genomic Screening Network (PGSN), an NIH-funded program piloting community-level testing for well-understood genetic conditions.

Check out this year's line-up of University of Washington Department of Biostatistics students, recent graduates, faculty, and alumni presenting at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Boston, Massachusetts August 2-6, 2026.

Highlights from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics graduation ceremony held June 6, 2026. Students were celebrated for their academic accomplishments by faculty advisors and department leadership.

Congratulations to Yifan Lin, recipient of the Gilbert S. Omenn Award for Academic Excellence, and Gabriella Vasconcelos, recipient of Outstanding Doctoral Student, awared by the University of Washington School of Public Health.

Master’s student Yifan Lin developed a tool to help understand Alzheimer's and other diseases. Lin received the Omenn Award for Academic Excellence as a biostatistics master's student at the University of Washington.

University of Washington School of Public Health researcher Kevin Lin, along with his collaborators in the UW School of Medicine, recently received a $75,000 development award from the UW Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) for a project examining this mystery through microglial resilience and data integration.

Three faculty members and one alumni from the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics have been elected 2026 Fellows of the American Statistical Association. Fellows are named for their outstanding contributions to statistical science, leadership, and advancement of the field. 

University of Washington researchers created a framework that helps compare phylogenetic trees when they don't have the same set of species. The solution called Towering space organizes BHV spaces into a nested hierarchy, where transitions between BHV spaces are possible by removing or adding leaves to the trees.