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June 17, 2026
Biostatistics faculty elected to leadership posts in top statistics societies
Three Department of Biostatistics faculty have won new leadership roles and honors in the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute -
June 17, 2026
Team’s post-op kidney injury risk model could aid prevention
The machine learning-derived model was 88% accurate in ranking preoperative patients according to risk for postoperative acute kidney injury. -
June 12, 2026
Second Vanderbilt Health team wins NIH Replication Prize
Led by Simon Vandekar, PhD, a group of biostatisticians earned the honor for tools that help brain researchers tell strong, trustworthy findings from weak ones. Vanderbilt Health teams took two of 15 total NIH prizes. -
June 9, 2026
Study: Lung biopsy cryoprobe increases diagnostic yield over standard forceps
The FROSTBITE-2 trial used the 1.1-millimeter cryoprobe which, unlike the larger probes, is small enough to remove the biopsy specimen through the working channel without having to remove the scope, which increases safety. -
June 5, 2026
Research addresses barriers to success for antibody-based therapies for solid head, neck and pancreatic tumors
A new platform allows visualization of drug-tumor interactions in human solid tumors, providing a tool for measuring drug delivery and signaling. -
May 29, 2026
AI technique improves cancer gene discovery for breast and prostate cancer
The artificial intelligence model Enformer was retrained with tissue-specific datasets; this "transfer learning" approach outperformed the base model in identifying disease-associated genes. -
May 27, 2026
Vanderbilt Health-led team wins NIH Replication Prize for biobank data quality tool
DNA biobanks had lacked systematic ways to evaluate whether the medical record data being analyzed accurately reflected the diseases under study.