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UW-led team receives $4.2M grant to develop AI-guided brain stimulation methods aimed at treating mental health disorders
UW Electrical & Computer Engineering,

Ali Shojaie will be a member of new multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team that recently received a five-year, $4.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop neural stimulation techniques guided by artificial intelligence (AI) machine learning methods.

Ross Prentice
Ross Prentice
Fred Hutch’s Dr. Ross Prentice retires
Fred Hutch News,

Only a handful of scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center have been around longer than the institution itself; longtime public health researcher Ross Prentice, PhD, who retired at the end of 2022, is one of them.

Photos of Lu Xia and Ali Shojaie
Photos of Lu Xia and Ali Shojaie
Metabolomic Signatures Associated With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Outcomes
National Library of Medicine,

UW Biostatistics postdoc Lu Xia is first author, and faculty member Ali Shojaie a co-author, of research that found distinct plasma metabolomic profiles are associated with right ventricular dilation, mortality, and measures of disease severity in pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Jonathan Wakefield
Jonathan Wakefield
The WHO estimates of excess mortality associated with the COVID-19 pandemic
Nature,

The World Health Organization has a mandate to compile and disseminate statistics on mortality, and we have been tracking the progression of the COVID-19 pandemic since the beginning of 2020. Here we report a comprehensive and consistent measurement of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by estimating excess deaths, by month, for 2020 and 2021. 

Photo of the Hans Rosling Center Building at night
Photo of the Hans Rosling Center Building at night
UW Biostatistics highlights for 2022
UW Biostatistics community member contributions and accomplishments during 2022.