Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program

Congrats to Fred Hutch biostatistician Dr. Ruth Etzioni on receiving the 2025 Early Detection Impact Award at #EDxConf25! Etzioni was honored for her seminal contributions to cancer early detection biomarker research. Read more: https://bit.ly/4qlrKQd

A model citizen for early detection - Cancer Research UK - Cancer News Fresh from her Impact Award, Professor Ruth Etzioni talks mathematical models, overdiagnosis and why modellers must explain their working…

Following her 2025 Early Detection Impact Award, Ruth Etzioni is profiled by @cancerresearchuk for her work modeling cancer screening.

Insightful piece on balancing benefit, harm & trust in early detection.

🔗 news.cancerresearchuk.org/2025/10/23/a...

#EarlyDetection #Biostats #FredHutch

Computational and Theoretical Biology As we navigate the era of big data in biological research, advanced computational techniques, such as mathematical models and machine learning algorithms, are ...

Thrilled 👏 to 👏see 👏 @jsb-ucla.bsky.social and Pan Liu’s “mcRigor” paper featured in the Computational & Theoretical Biology Editors’ Highlights at Nature Communications! Well done, Jessica and Pan! 🎉

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#SingleCell #ComputationalBiology #Biostats #NatureComms

HICOR's 10th Annual Value in Cancer Care Summit will bring together individuals from across the healthcare spectrum to collaborate on ways to improve the quality and value of cancer care in the region. 📅 Nov. 6 📍Seattle, WA

Register: https://bit.ly/4oEBWSb

Applause for Ruth Etzioni, winner of the 2025 Early Detection Impact Award! 🎉
Her research has transformed how we think about cancer screening and biomarkers.
🔗 research.fredhutch.org/etzioni/en/n...

Thanks @ohsuknight.bsky.social, @cancerresearchuk.org & Canary Center.
#EarlyDetection #FredHutch

Exciting new work from our Biostatistics Program Head @jsb-ucla.bsky.social 🚀 Her team introduces mcRigor in Nature Communications, advancing rigor in metacell analysis.
🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Biostatistics #SingleCell #Genomics

You're invited to the 3rd Annual BACPAC #ProstateCancer Community Research Symposium — a free event hosted by Fred Hutch Cancer Center and @uwmedicine.bsky.social, in collaboration with BACPAC and ZERO Prostate Cancer.

Register: https://bit.ly/4fSYyv5

This Thursday's @uwbiostat.bsky.social seminar welcomes Xinwei Shen, PhD from UW Statistics presenting, "Generalization Beyond Data: A Distributional Perspective." Details at: bit.ly/48amMiA

Generative genomics predicts future and impossible experiments! Read the new preprint from Synthesize Bio: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... and anyone can try our models on the cloud or in R/Python! product.synthesize.bio

🎉Big congrats to Ali Shojaie and Marco Carone on their new interim leadership roles at @uwbiostat.bsky.social! 🎉

Twitch creator @alynni8.bsky.social is participating in her third #RaidsforResearch event benefitting Fred Hutch! Thank you Aly for sharing why you stream, we are grateful to have your as a part of our community! ❤

Research beyond silos - Cancer AI Alliance The Cancer AI Alliance (CAIA) brings together top cancer centers and tech leaders to break down institutional silos. Using federated learning, they securely train AI models on diverse patient data, ac...

CAIA is breaking down research silos with federated learning. AI models learn from diverse data without moving it.

Read more: www.canceralliance.ai/blog/beyond-...

Congrats to @jtleek.bsky.social + CAIA for advancing secure, equitable cancer research.

#CancerAI #FederatedLearning #Biostatistics

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UW Emeritus Professor of Biostatistics Bruce Weir will give a special lecture on Sept. 16 on, "GRM estimation: recommendations and implications for quantitative genetic analyses." The session will be held at the UW Hans Rosling Center at 12:00 p.m. in Room 145. ⁠https://bit.ly/488V3i0

Congratulations to Biostat alum Jeff Leek (MS ’05, PhD ’07) and his Cancer AI Alliance team on being named to #TIME100AI! Leek is chief data officer at Fred Hutch @fredhutch.bsky.social.
Read more at: time.com/collections/...

Happy birthday, Fred Hutch Cancer Center!

On this day in 1975, the dedication ceremony for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center was held at the center's original location in Seattle's First Hill neighborhood, completing a project 10 years in the making.

✨Congratulations to @jtleek.bsky.social Leek and the Cancer AI Alliance on this well-deserved recognition in TIME’s #TIME100AI. A well-earned recognition of the team’s collaborative work to advance cancer research.

Flyer for Statistics & AI in Health Data Science seminar

💩 Did you miss @wu-biostat.bsky.social talking crap last month? Good news! You can watch a recording of his seminar!

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The image shows a person's gloved hand examining a DNA model with digital data and molecular structures in the background. In the foreground is Dr. Wei Sun. Overlayed is the following text: Decoding the jobs of over 20,000 genes Fred Hutch has joined nine leading institutions in a groundbreaking effort to uncover the function of every protein-coding gene in the human genome Dr. Wei Sun co-leads the effort at Fred Hutch

Every gene has a job.
Fred Hutch is helping figure out what they are—and how they impact our health.
#Genomics #PrecisionMedicine #CRISPR #humangenome
Read more: https://bit.ly/4oLe6ou

Accelerating Progress Through Bioscience, AI for Good, and Environmental Advances Fund for Science and Technology

Fred Hutch was named among the early grantees of the Fund for Science and Technology (FFST), a new Paul Allen estate-backed foundation that plans to fund at least $500 million over the next four years to support transformational science and technology. www.ff-st.org/news-stories...

📢 Congrats to Yingqi Zhao, PhD, on a new NCI R01 award!
Her team will develop EMR-based strategies to advance early detection of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) by identifying high-risk populations and integrating biomarkers.

#FredHutch #Biostatistics #CancerResearch #EarlyDetection 💜

📢 Coming up in the Statistics & AI in Health Data Science series!
@jsb-ucla.bsky.social presents “Statistical Learning in the Wild: Tackling Double Dipping in Unsupervised Single-Cell & Spatial Transcriptomics”
🗓 Aug 29, 2025
🕒 12–1 PM PST | 3–4 PM EST

🔗 lnkd.in/e6pw_jYz

#FredHutch #Biostatistics

🙌 Two years flew by! Big cheers to Lucas J. Liu at #FredHutch Biostatistics for pushing the boundaries of AI + cancer research. Grateful to have him on the team—here’s to many more 🚀

#Biostatistics #AIinMedicine #CancerResearch

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Alumni, student, and faculty highlights from JSM 2025 The University of Washington Biostatistics Department was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association (ASA)...

@uwbiostat.bsky.social was well-represented at this year’s Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Nashville, Tennessee, hosted by the American Statistical Association @asa-scipol.bsky.social View photo highlights from the reception for Biostatistics and Statistics departments at UW: bit.ly/3JE8nAG

Lung-MAP S1800E

A Lung-MAP non-match sub-study is now enrolling: S1800E randomizes patients with advanced non-small cell #lungcancer to a standard docetaxel + ramucirumab combo w/wo cemiplimab. #NSCLC #lcsm
Biostatistician: Mary W. Redman, PhD
@fredhutch.bsky.social
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Dear future trainee: Let's have fun, work hard, and feel lucky that our job is to expand the boundary of knowledge.

Interested in doing a PhD or postdoc in our group? Here is a letter to you: matsen.group/general/202...

We are ready to recruit a trainee who can help develop the next generation of our transformer-based models of natural selection. See the "joining" tab of our website for details.

Grateful to KEXP for hosting and @fredhutch.bsky.social for sponsoring a day dedicated to the power of music to lift our spirits and heal our souls in the face of cancer. You can stream live online at KEXP.org or through the KEXP app www.kexp.org/musicheals/ #YouAreNotAlone #BeyondCancer

OpenAI launches reasoning LLM that you can download and tweak One version of the gpt-oss large language model can run on a laptop, and performs nearly as well as the company’s most powerful models.

Fred Hutch data scientists Carrie Wright and Elizabeth Humphries weigh in on OpenAI's first open-weight reasoning #AI, noting its potential for personalization in research applications while emphasizing thoughtful integration. Via @nature.com go.nature.com/4mFSoRb

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Congrats to @uwsph.bsky.social professor Marco Carone on this prestigious award! “His work stands as a model for how cutting-edge methodology can be harnessed to address pressing health questions, making him a truly outstanding figure in the field.” bit.ly/47eOdHg

2025 Joint Statistical Meetings - Statistics, Data Science, and AI Enriching Society The Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) is the largest gathering of statisticians held in North America. Attended by more than 5,000 people, meeting activities include oral presentations, panel sessions,...

✨ Wednesday at #JSM2025:

👉 @jtleek.bsky.social joins the panel honoring @hadley.nz and the power of the #tidyverse.

👉 Lucas Liu presents on cancer recurrence detection using deep learning + LLMs, outperforming traditional NLP.

#FredHutch #LLMs #CancerAI #StatGraphics #RStats #DataScience