@fredhutch.org researchers, including our own Li Hsu, have created a free tool to assess their colorectal cancer risk online. MyGeneRisk combines lifestyle information and optional genetic data, returns results immediately, and does not store personal data. 🔗 mygenerisk-colon.fredhutch.org

Check out @uwbiostat.bsky.social department contributions highlighted in the @uwsph.bsky.social 2025 impact report. sph.washington.edu/impact

We are really interested in hearing the trainee experience - would love to hear from any trainees about their interests and styles of learning! Check this out and please share!

Read our post capturing highlights from the Seventh Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics which took place November 22-25. Biostatistical leaders from around the world came together to explore the evolving role of causal inference in biomedical research. bit.ly/4a81naJ

Excellent Hutch News story on Seattle Stat Grows and its work to engage the next generation of stats + data science researchers. Led at Fred Hutch by Biostat Faculty members Megan Othus and Ruth Etzioni. www.fredhutch.org/en/news/cent...

Great article from @UWBiostats on the SCORCHER Project and its effort to make AI and statistical tools easier for cancer researchers. Led by PI @jtleek.bsky.social and co-PI Steve Salerno, the project is doing important work to open up these methods. www.biostat.washington.edu/news/stories...

The era of coding agents is here. How do we approach this as scientists? Wednesday Dec 10th at 9am PT I'll livestream an interactive demo of what I have learned (matsen.group/agentic.html) about how to leverage agentic coding to do rigorous science. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbhs...

Join Fred Hutch's Generative AI Learning Club on 12/4 at 3:30 p.m. for a virtual seminar featuring Kyle Tretina, PhD of NVIDIA. This talk explores how open, GPU-accelerated models and libraries are driving discovery from molecular targets to synthesis. https://bit.ly/43H3ZrX

Join Fred Hutch's Generative AI Learning Club on 12/4 at 3:30 p.m. for a virtual seminar featuring Kyle Tretina, PhD of NVIDIA. This talk explores how open, GPU-accelerated models and libraries are driving discovery from molecular targets to synthesis. https://bit.ly/43H3ZrX

Congrats to @jsb-ucla.bsky.social! Her new NIH R01 will build tools that make single-cell + spatial omics analysis more trustworthy—especially when replicates are scarce. #R01 #NIH #NHGRI #DataScience #ReproducibleResearch 🔗 jsb-lab.org/people/jingy... 🔗 www.fredhutch.org/content/www/...

Join us Friday, Nov. 21 for our MS Capstone Admissions Info Session from 1 -2 p.m. PST. Attend to learn more about the program, application process, and research opportunities available to you as a UW Biostatistics student. Information and RSVP form: bit.ly/4o9OgKa

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The ITCR Training Network (ITN) www.itcrtraining.org develops training materials for informatics and research. We have a short survey ~3-9 min about your experience & preferences for learning as a researcher. Previous engagement not required! xiar7j-itn.shinyapps.io/itn_follow_up/

Saori Sakaue, MD, PhD from @uwgenome.bsky.social is our seminar guest this week. Sakaue will present "Integrating genetics and single-cell genomics to define non-coding mechanisms of common and rare diseases." Thursday, Nov. 20 at 3:30 p.m. Details and session abstract at: lnkd.in/gsFHvevq

Fresh from Kemal Gogebakan and the Etzioni Lab: a new Cancer paper shows how PSMA-PET/CT imaging could improve decision-making for men with recurrent prostate cancer. Coming soon to Fred Hutch’s Science Spotlight. Read: acsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Join us Thursday, Nov. 13 at 3:30 p.m. for: Statistical Frameworks for Dissecting Genetic Regulation in the Human Transcriptome presented by Pejman Mohammadi @uwmedicine.bsky.social and @seattlechildrens.org Research Institute. Details and abstract: bit.ly/498bfAJ

UW Biostat PhD student @albertosom, member of Yingqi Zhao’s group, applied causal inference at Amazon to improve operations and delivery outcomes. #Biostatistics #CausalInference #DataScience

Excellent article on PROSPR II! Kudos to Biostat faculty Yingye Zheng and her COMASS team for advancing this important research. 🔗 See more of COMASS’s contributions: www.fredhutch.org/en/research/... 🔗 Learn more about Dr. Zheng: www.fredhutch.org/en/faculty-l...

Know an early-career statistician who shows potential for great leadership and shaping the future of statistics? COPSS is accepting nominations for the Emerging Leader Award: stattrak.amstat.org/...

Fred Hutch's Public Health Sciences Division is recruiting an Assistant, Associate or Full Professor Faculty position in biostatistics. Join a collaborative, innovative research environment with robust support for scientific excellence. Learn more: https://apply.interfolio.com/176402

A thoughtful reminder that statisticians should be part of clinical trial design from day one, and that leadership isn’t just for senior statisticians. Influence, communicate, collaborate!

According to Richard Zink of JMP Statistical Discovery, it is never too early to think about statistical leadership. In this month's "Amstat News" cover story, Zink focuses on the importance of statisticians in multidisciplinary projects. magazine.amstat.org/...

New from @programmingsun.bsky.social and team: two computational frameworks, CAT (Cancer-Associated T cells) and NeoTCR, that identify cancer-reactive T cells and predict neoantigen-specific TCRs. 🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #Biostatistics #CancerResearch #DataScience #FredHutch

🚨 Now hiring! Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program seeks professor-track faculty (Asst/Assoc/Full Prof) who lead with statistical thinking across computation, medicine & science. Apply by Dec 1 2025: apply.interfolio.com/167092 #Biostatistics #FredHutch #FacultySearch #DataScience

🏆 @jsb-ucla.bsky.social received the 2025 Mortimer Spiegelman Award today from the @apha.org, which honors a statistician under 40 for outstanding contributions to public health statistics. 🎉 CONGRATULATIONS, JESSICA! 🎉 🔗 spiegelmanaward.org #Biostatistics #PublicHealth #FredHutch #APHA2025

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

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

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! 🎉 🔗 www.nature.com/collections/... #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! ❤

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.

💩 Did you miss @wu-biostat.bsky.social talking crap last month? Good news! You can watch a recording of his seminar! 🔗 lnkd.in/gUUJ7RcZ

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

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 🔗 scholar.google.com/citations?us...

@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