Indiana University Biostatistics

Please join us in congratulating Dr. Giorgos Bakoyannis on receiving the Trustees' Teaching Award!

Wenxian Zhou, PhD student in Biostatistics (advisor: Giorgos Bakoyannis), won a student award at the International Biometric Society - Eastern Mediterranean Region 2021 conference. Congratulations Wenxian!

Natalie Lambert, Associate Research Professor at the Indiana University Department of Biostatistics and Health Data Science, was recently interviewed by the New York Times on one of the studies she worked on with a group of collaborators. See report below:

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Congratulations Natalie on the wonderful work!

Many ‘Long Covid’ Patients Had No Symptoms From Their Initial Infection An analysis of electronic medical records in California found that 32 percent started with asymptomatic infections but reported troubling aftereffects weeks and months later.

Publication News

Constantin Yiannoutsos, Professor of Biostatistics has a paper accepted by The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This paper is on “Bayesian estimation of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in Indiana by random testing” and can be found online in https://www.pnas.org/content/118/5/e2013906118

Jing Su and colleagues published two papers in Digital Medicine and in Bioinformatics:

Fang C, Xu D, Su J*, Dry J*, and Linghu B*, "DeePaN: A deep patient graph convolutional network integrating clinico-genomic evidence to stratify lung cancers benefiting from immunotherapy", accepted by npj Digital Medicine.

Song Q and Su J*, DSTG: Deconvoluting Spatial Transcriptomics Data through Graph-based Artificial Intelligence, Briefings in Bioinformatics

Sam Thomas has a paper accepted by The American Statistician
Thomas S, Tu W. Learning Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in R. The American Statistician.

Bayesian estimation of SARS-CoV-2 prevalence in Indiana by random testing Infection with the novel coronovirus severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has resulted in a worldwide pandemic of COVID-19 disease. Efforts to design local, regional, and national responses to the virus are constrained by a lack of information on the extent of the epidemic as...

Biostatistics PhD graduate Jun Park, his advisor Dr. Giorgos Bakoyannis, and Drs. Zhang and Yiannoutsos, have a paper just accepted by Biostatistics. The title of their paper is “Semiparametric regression on cumulative incidence function with interval-censored competing risks data and missing event types”. Congratulations for the great work!

IUPUI scientists determine the death rate for COVID-19 in the general population: News: News & Events: Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health: IUPUI IUPUI scientists determine the death rate for COVID-19 in the general population

Yi Zhao, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, has a paper recently accepted by Biometrics. The title of the paper is “Multimodal Neuroimaging Data Integration and Pathway Analysis”. Congratulations Yi!

Giorgos Bakoyannis, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, has a paper recently accepted by Biometrics. The title of the paper is “Nonparametric Analysis of Nonhomogeneous Multistate Processes with Clustered Observations”.

Biostatistics PhD student Yifei Zhang and his advisor Yong Zang have a paper just accepted by Biometrics. The title of their paper is “A Bayesian Adaptive Phase I/II Clinical Trial Design with Late-onset Competing Risk Outcomes”. Congratulations Yifei and Yong for the great work!

Regenstrief Implements New Set of COVID-19 Dataset Codes There will now be over 150 new LOINC dataset codes that are linked to COVID-19.

IU leaders speak out following weekend of unrest across the nation Following the tragic death of George Floyd, IU leaders are speaking out on the topic of diversity, community and inclusivity.