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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 11h

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

Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 9d

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

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · 8d

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

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Jeff Leek @jtleek.bsky.social · 22d

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

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 20d

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

UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · 21d

Announcing new department leadership for UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social. Ali Shojaie has been named interim department chair, and Marco Carone, interim associate chair. Read more: bit.ly/4mkPMaw

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · 21d

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! ❤

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 23d

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

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...

www.canceralliance.ai

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · 28d

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · 29d

Convened every five years, the Seattle Symposium brings together experts and thought leaders in biostatistics, data science, clinical medicine and public health to discuss pressing scientific issues. bit.ly/7thSeattleSy...

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · 29d

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

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · Sep 3

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/...

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Sep 5

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.

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · Sep 2

✨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.

Jeff Leek @jtleek.bsky.social · Aug 28

Honored to see the Cancer AI Alliance included on TIME's list of the TIME100 AI of 2025! #TIME100AI.

CAIA has been a true team sport based on the shared commitment of all our Alliance members to accelerate cancer research and ultimately improve and save patient’s lives.

time.com/collections/...

Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 27

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

🔗 lnkd.in/gUUJ7RcZ

Flyer for Statistics & AI in Health Data Science seminar

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Aug 27

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

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

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Aug 27

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...

Accelerating Progress Through Bioscience, AI for Good, and Environmental Advances

Fund for Science and Technology

www.ff-st.org

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 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 💜

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Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 25

📢 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

Fred Hutch Biostatistics Program @fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 21

🙌 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...

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 19

@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

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)...

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SWOG Cancer Research Network @swog.org · Aug 19

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
swog.org/clinical-tri...

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Frederick "Erick" Matsen @matsen.bsky.social · Aug 21

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.

Dear future trainee:

Let's have fun, work hard, and feel lucky that our job is to expand the boundary of knowledge.

matsen.group

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Fred Hutch Office of Community Outreach & Engagement @enddisparities.bsky.social · Aug 21

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

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Fred Hutch @fredhutch.org · Aug 8

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

@fredhutchbiostat.bsky.social

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.

go.nature.com

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UW Biostatistics @uwbiostat.bsky.social · Aug 5

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

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