Congratulations to Associate Professor Jiwei Zhao for being named a 2026 Fellow of the American Statistical Association! This honor recognizes sustained and significant contributions to statistical sciences. The ASA Fellows Committee may name only ⅓ …
Year: 2026
Wang Lab contributes to major Down syndrome paper
The Wang Lab, in collaboration with Waisman Center researchers, published an important paper titled Molecular and cellular processes disrupted in the early postnatal Down syndrome prefontal cortex in the journal Science. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea1549 Dr. Wang, post …
Newton Contributes to Huntington’s Disease Research
Professor and Chair, Michael Newton, was featured in an article on Huntington’s Disease research in the School of Computer, Data, and Information Sciences newsletter. Newton collaborated with Professor Jane Paulsen of the Department of Neurology …
USNews ranks UW Biostatistics Program #11 (with Cornell)
The latest rankings from USNews place UW-Madison’s biostatistics program at 11th of 89 ranked programs, a distinction shared with Cornell University. The program has moved up one point from the previous ranking, showing the growing …
BMI Faculty Profiled in Article: AI in Advancing Medical Research
BMI faculty Daifeng Wang and Irene Ong, along with BMI affiliate faculty Majid Afshar and Pallavi Tiwari, are profiled for their research using AI to advance medical research.
BMI Research Paper Highlighted in All of Us publication
Congratulations to Guanhua Chen, Zhengzheng Tang, BDS alumnus Jifan Gao, and collaborators on having a recently published paper highlighted in the “All of Us Research Highlights” series. This paper was selected because of its public …
Spencer Halberg (Roy Lab) – publication and cover of Nucleic Acids Research
Spencer Halberg of Sushmita Roy’s lab is co-first author on a paper titled “A network-based model of Aspergillus fumigatus elucidates regulators of development and defensive natural products of an opportunistic pathogen” that was published in Nucleic …