As Fred Hutch looks back on its 50-year history, Emeritus faculty member Ross Prentice is recognized for his leadership of the Public Health Sciences Division.
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50 years of doing hard things
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CDC funds UW Medicine pandemic-preparedness study
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Critical work by a team of UW researchers that includes Marco Carone, a professor of biostatistics in the School of Public Health.
Crunching the numbers for next-gen COVID-19 vaccines
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Recently, a team of biostatisticians led by Fred Hutch Cancer Center’s Peter Gilbert, PhD, garnered $17 million in funding from BARDA to identify correlates of protection (molecular shorthands that stand in for vaccine efficacy) for COVID-19 vaccines being tested through Project NextGen. Gilbert is a professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Publich Health
Review highlights of University of Washington Department of Biostatistics member accomplishments during 2024.
UW Biostatistics Doctoral Student Quinn White's research is part of a growing effort to assess the implications of including race and ethnicity in clinical risk prediction models. White is first author of a recent study which examined the use of race in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) algorithm used to calculate the 10-year risk of coronary heart disease. The score calculation not using race predicted heart disease as well as the original calculation that did.