Department of Biostatistics Archive — Page 3 of 7
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March 22, 2022
VUMC’s Pietenpol, Shyr named AACR Fellows
Vanderbilt's Jennifer Pietenpol, PhD, and Yu Shyr, PhD, have been inducted as fellows of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy. -
January 31, 2022
Impact of digital health interventions
Vanderbilt researchers test and recommend statistical approaches to study the association between engagement with digital health interventions and clinical outcomes. -
January 14, 2022
Vanderbilt biostatisticians launch Cancer-Immu data portal for predicting response to immune checkpoint blockade immunotherapy
A new data portal called Cancer-Immu established by a team of Vanderbilt University Medical Center biostatisticians can help cancer clinicians and researchers predict which patients will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors. -
November 11, 2021
VUMC team puts tool to reduce heart failure admissions to test
Vanderbilt researchers have developed a risk stratification tool to predict outcomes and avoid unnecessary hospital admissions after emergency department visits for acute heart failure. -
November 11, 2021
VUMC tests drugs for COVID outpatient treatment
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July 27, 2021
Prediction models for breast cancer
Vanderbilt researchers developed new prognostic models for breast cancer outcomes and found that adding postdiagnostic weight change as a factor improves the prediction. -
April 15, 2021
Method proposed to correct misinterpretations of long-term survival rates for immunotherapies
Immune checkpoint inhibitors have transformed cancer care to the point where the popular Cox proportional-hazards model provides misleading estimates of the treatment effect, according to a new study published April 15 in JAMA Oncology.