Congratulations to two University of Washington Biostatistics students who have won first place in the 2026 American Statistical Association (ASA) Student Paper Competitions in the Section in Genomics and Genetics.

Ethan Ashby, a PhD student in Biostatistics PhD at the University of Washington, has received a Distinguished Student Paper Award from the International Biometric Society Eastern North American Region (ENAR) for his paper, “Debiasing hazard-based estimates of time-varying vaccine effects using vaccine-irrelevant infections: An application to an observational extension of a Phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine efficacy trial.”

A look back at member accomplishments in the University of Washington Department of Biostatistics during 2025.

A wrap-up of the Seventh Seattle Symposium in BiostatisticsBiostatistical leaders from around the world came together at the Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics on November 22-25 to explore the evolving role of causal inference in biomedical research.

Awan Afiaz, a biostatistics PhD student in the University of Washington School of Public Health, is part of a research team developing software to help clinicians working in cancer research close this gap.