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PhD student Awan Afiaz has received a Student Conference Award from the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) and will present his paper at the organization’s annual conference in Thessaloniki, Greece in July.
![Headshots of Sarah Nelson, Stephanie Gogarten. Barbra Richardson](/sites/default/files/styles/news_image_mobile_thumb/public/2024-05/Nelson-Gogarten-Richardson.jpg?itok=5JNCI5CB)
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Two of the 13 University of Washington Population Health Tier 1 pilot grants were awarded to teams that include Department of Biostatistics researchers.
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Q&A with Gary Chan, professor of biostatistics and health systems and population health, who is one of several University of Washington School of Public Health faculty and alumni playing key leadership roles in NIH efforts to improve AANHPI health data.
![Excellence award recipients for 2024 - Biostatistics, UW School of Public Health](/sites/default/files/styles/news_image_mobile_thumb/public/2024-05/excellence-2024-winners.jpg?itok=BY70yClk)
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Student and staff members of the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics were honored with 2024 UW School of Public Health (SPH) Awards of Excellence at a ceremony held on May 14.
![Jasper Yang, UW Biostatistics PhD student](/sites/default/files/styles/news_image_mobile_thumb/public/2024-05/thumbnail_jw.png?itok=9ll-58t0)
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Spotlight on UW Biostatistics Student Research: In his first year as a biostatistics PhD student, Jasper Yang hoped to conduct meaningful research. After all, the chance to collaborate with University of Washington and other area researchers was one of the reasons he chose to attend UW.
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A research team conducts an in-depth exploration of cryptic plasmid, pBI143, one of more than 68,000 plasmids found in the human gut and which 90 percent of people in the industrialized world possess, and find that pBI143 is much better at detecting human fecal contamination in water samples than the most current state-of-the-art markers, a crucial finding considering that human fecal pollution is a major global health problem.
![Kung-Yee Liang and Patrick Heagerty at the 2024 Norman E. Breslow Endowed Lecture, Seattle Washington](/sites/default/files/styles/news_image_mobile_thumb/public/2024-04/kung-yee-liang-heagerty-uw-2024.jpg?itok=fyER8Q2g)
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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.
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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.