Memorial Sloan Kettering Biostatistics Service

Feeling like a deer in headlights? Finished your terminal degree or postdoc between 2023 and 2026? Apply to the 2026 #ENAR Early Career Workshop Series by November 10th to find your herd!

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Journal of Clinical Oncology on X: "Thank you to all who joined our "Publication 101" panel discussion featuring the JCO Journal editors. We appreciate your active engagement and interest in understanding the intricacies of academic publishing. https://t.co/O8Rc8mBAle" / X Thank you to all who joined our "Publication 101" panel discussion featuring the JCO Journal editors. We appreciate your active engagement and interest in understanding the intricacies of academic publishing. https://t.co/O8Rc8mBAle

Our very own Alexia Iasonos from #MSKBiostats spoke on a panel about peer review & becoming a successful author at the Early Career Lounge at #ASCO 2025 — and also became an ASCO Fellow this past Saturday! 🎉

Congratulations, Alexia, on these fantastic achievements! 👏

#ASCO25

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📣 #MSKBiostats is thrilled to welcome Dr. Ting Ye from the University of Washington @uwbiostat.bsky.social as the next speaker in our #Biostatistics Seminar Series!

📅 Wed. 6/4/25 at 10:30 AM ET

📩 Email Michelle Dongel (dongelm@mskcc.org) for Teams meeting link & to register!

Learning 👩‍🏫 from three SCT past presidents and president elect Alexia Iasonos at the #MSKBiostats seminar series.
Discussing 💬patient centric #ClinicalTrials #SCT

⏰ Next week, #MSKBiostats welcomes Dr. Scott Richard Evans from the GW Milken Institute School of Public Health as our next #Biostatistics Seminar Series Speaker!

📅 Wed. 5/28/25 at 10:30 AM ET

📩 Email Michelle Dongel (dongelm@mskcc.org) for zoom link & to register!

Recognizing some of our amazing team members:

✨ Alexia Iasonos, President-elect 🔜 shaping the future of #ClinicalTrials
✨ Colin Begg, Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Trials journal ⏩ elevating trial methodology
✨ I-Hsin Lin, Chair of SCT Communications Committee 🎙️ advancing outreach!

📣 #MSKBiostats was well represented at the 46th Society for Clinical Trials Annual Meeting!

⭐️ We are proud of our dedicated team members, whose commitment to #ClinicalResearch and innovation is making a global impact on the international stage

#SCT2025

👏 Big thanks to everyone who joined us at Invited Session 5 yesterday on The Modern Clinical Trial!

📸 Pictured: Dr. Colin Begg from #MSKBiostats discussing "Threats to the Validity of Clinical Trials & the Use of External Controls"

❗ More to come at #SCT2025! Stay tuned!

📣At #SCT2025, I-Hsin Lin from #MSKBiostats will join SCT leadership at the Business Session (5/20 at 11:45AM PT) to share SCT Comms Committee updates, including:

✅New LinkedIn page
✅Revamped newsletter
✅Social Media Ambassadors
✅Cross-promotion across SCT & global partners

Don't miss this session!

📢 Excited for the 46th Annual Society for Clinical Trials Meeting (5/18–5/21)!

Alexia Iasonos from #MSKBiostats will present “The Promise & Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIML) in Clinical Trials” Tues 5/20, 1–2:30 PM PT.

#SCT2025 #ClinicalTrials

April is Math & Statistics Awareness Month, and we're proud to recognize @mskbiostats.bsky.social team. They play a critical role in advancing #cancer research through study design/statistical methods. We're grateful for this team's dedication to innovation & celebrate their impact on MSK’s mission!

📢 This week, we are thrilled to welcome our next #Biostatistics Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. George C. Tseng from University of Pittsburgh!

📅 Wed. 4/30/25 at 10:30 AM ET

📩 Email Michelle Dongel (dongelm@mskcc.org) for zoom link & to register!

#MSKBiostats

MSK Research Highlights, April 23, 2025 New MSK research identifies a rare cell population responsible for AML persistence and resistance to therapy; sheds new light on early brain development; and investigates how other health conditions c...

New research led by PI Lee Jones and
MSK biostatisticians Jessica Lavery and Chaya Moskowitz shows that midlife health conditions — like diabetes and heart disease — can raise cancer risk. Important work for cancer prevention! Read more: 👇
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📢 #MSKBiostats is excited to welcome our next #Biostatistics Seminar Speaker: Alex Carriero, PhD Candidate from UMC Utrecht (Netherlands)

📅 Wed. 4/23/25 at 10:30 AM ET

📩 Email Michelle Dongel (dongelm@mskcc.org) for zoom link & to register!

@alcarriero.bsky.social @maartenvsmeden.bsky.social

📢 We are excited to welcome our next #Biostatistics Seminar Series Speaker: Dr. Robert Krafty from @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

📅 Wed. 4/16/25 at 10:30 AM ET

📩 Email Michelle Dongel (dongelm@mskcc.org) for zoom link & to register!

#MSKBiostats

🥳🎉 We are thrilled to announce that our very own Alexia Iasonos has been elected as President-elect of the Society for Clinical Trials! Dr. Iasonos will officially begin her new role on May 20th at the SCT Annual Meeting.

Congratulations Alexia and well deserved!

Check out #MSKBiostats members at #ENAR2025 in New Orleans, LA this past week🎷! Great talks🎙️, vibrant discussions, and always a pleasure to connect with the global @enar-ibs.bsky.social community🌎

👀 Be on the lookout for these exciting contributions!

‼️ We can’t wait to see everyone in New Orleans soon.

#ENAR2025 #MSKBiostats

📅 On Wednesday 3/26 in Session 123 at 8:45 AM, Audrey Mauguen from #MSKBiostats will present a talk titled:

📌 “Improved Comparison of Tumor Mutation Prevalence Between Groups Adjusting for Imperfect Mutation Detection Sensitivity”

📅 On Monday 3/24 in Session 35 at 8:30 AM, Jessica Lavery from #MSKBiostats will present a talk titled:

📌 “Assessing Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Time-to-Event Outcomes with a Mixture of Survival Models”

📉 This is joint work with Yuanjia Wang (Columbia), Yuan Chen, and Kathy Panageas

📅 On Sunday 3/23, @kayseetan.bsky.social from #MSKBiostats will be co-chairing the Fostering Diversity in #Biostatistics Workshop.

🎉 Fun fact: this year we are celebrating the 25th anniversary of the workshop!

📢 The ENAR 2025 Spring Meeting will be held from March 23-26 in New Orleans, LA

📌 Team members from #MSKBiostats will be presenting and chairing at various exciting sessions!

🧵 Expand this thread to learn more about the talks and contributions from our members!

Continuing our Women’s History Month series, we celebrate Dr. Kay See Tan, Associate Attending Biostatistician at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, for her efforts in diversifying and training the next generation of biostatisticians. #ENAR #WomensHistoryMonth

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🥧Happy Pi Day from MSK Biostats!🥧
💥Fun Fact!💥Did you know that you can estimate pi using statistical methods? One of the coolest examples is Buffon's Needle Problem, a Monte Carlo method to approximate pi using random sampling. Check out this video below 👇
#PiDay
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Biostatistics The Biostatistics group is using statistical principles to design and analyze biological and clinical studies as well as to develop new methodology for this purpose.

👋 Hello Bluesky! We are the Biostatistics Service at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social

🎉 We are excited to be here to engage with the statistical & scientific communities online and to showcase the activities & research of #MSKBiostats!

ℹ️ Learn more about us here: www.mskcc.org/departments/...