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Graduate research assistant Kate Crawford conducts research in the Bloom Lab at Fred Hutch, which pivoted to COVID-19 research since the pandemic swept into Washington state in early 2020.
Graduate research assistant Kate Crawford conducts research in the Bloom Lab at Fred Hutch, which pivoted to COVID-19 research since the pandemic swept into Washington state in early 2020.
Latest Fred Hutch research on COVID-19: How Hutch scientists have been tackling coronavirus in lab and clinic
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Hutch News,

Article includes COVID-19 vaccine work by Hutch biostatisticians and UW Biostatistics faculty members Peter Gilbert and Holly Janes.

Nina Galanter
Nina Galanter
Biostatistics PhD student receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
Nina Galanter, a doctoral student in biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, is the recipient of a 2021 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship.
Headshot of Daniela Witten
Headshot of Daniela Witten
Could the Pandemic Prompt an ‘Epidemic of Loss’ of Women in the Sciences?
The New York Times,

Several studies have found that women have published fewer papers, led fewer clinical trials and received less recognition for their expertise during the pandemic. Daniela Witten, professor of biostatistics and statistics and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics, is quoted.

Photo of African children posing for photograph
Photo of African children posing for photograph
Statistical model developed for UN to estimate subnational variation in under-five mortality
Statistical model developed by University of Washington team for United Nations (UN) identifies local areas in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia where additional resources may be needed to mitigate high under-five mortality.
Peter Gilbert
Peter Gilbert
Genomic sieve analysis can inform SARS-CoV-2 vaccine development
Medical Xpress,

"Think of the vaccine as a sieve and different variants as pebbles poured into the sieve: the vaccine will block some variants but allow others to pass through, and sieve analysis learns which variants make it through." — Peter Gilbert, biostatistician at the Fred Hutch Vaccine and Infectious Disease and Public Health Sciences Divisions and a UW research professor of biostatistics.