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Get to know new interim DEOHS Chair Lianne Sheppard
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Lianne Sheppard, new DEOHS interim chair, looks to build community, support faculty as she steps into new role. Sheppard is also a professor of biostatistics.
Associate Professor of Biostatistics Amy Willis to develop and study a novel method to estimate bacterial evolutionary histories with $299k from the National Science Foundation.
A new method called FLARE was developed by UW Professor of Biostatistics Sharon Browning because existing software for inferring local ancestry was not able to handle the increasingly large amounts of genetic data that are available.
Ting Ye, an assistant professor of biostatistics in the University of Washington School of Public Health, has received a Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) from the National Institute of General Medicine Sciences (NIGMS), a five-year $1.77 million grant that will fund Ye’s research group to develop innovative and advanced statistical methods to generate translational causal evidence from large-scale omics data.