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9/2024 Dr. Chen joined the officers of Pittsburgh Chapter, American Association Society as Chapter Representative.
8/2024 Haoran’s paper was published by Nature Communications and selected as a featured article.
5/2024 Dr. Chen co-organized STATGEN 2024 conference in Pittsburgh.
3/2024 Chen Lab received an R01 (with Dr. Duerr) from NIDDK to generate a large-scale trans-ancestry, single-cell multi-omics dataset on CD4 T cells.
2/2024 Molin Yue received the 2024 ATS Abstract Scholarship.
1/2024 Dr. Chen was elected as Secretary of Chinese-American Lung Association (CALA)
5/2023 Dr. Chen (with Dr. Forno) received funding from the Institute for Prediction Medicine to study childhood asthma Exacerbations.
5/2023 Chen Lab received Scleroderma Research Funding (with Dr. Torok) to study spatial transcriptomics in pediatric scleroderma patients.
1/2023 Wei Chen was elected as American Thoracic Society Fellow (ATS)
10/2022 Zhongli received semi-finalist for Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards at ASHG
8/2022 Chen Lab received NSF (2225775) with Dr. Heng Huang to develop statistical and machine learning methods for single-cell multi-omics data
7/2022 Chen Lab received NIH R01 (R01EB034116) with Dr. Heng Huang to develop advanced machine learning methods for ocular data
7/2022 Zhongli has two paper published in Genome Biology and iScience
5/2022 Chen Lab received P01 renewal of Bioinformatics Core to study Severe Asthma with Drs. Ray and Wenzel
3/2022 Wei Chen was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Carnegie Mellon University
3/2022 Molin Yue and Zhongli Xu received ATS abstract scholarship
2/2022 Xinjun Wang accepted the faculty position (Assistant Attending Biostatistician) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
1/2022 Molin Yue’s 2 abstracts were accepted for oral presentation at 2022 ATS International Conference
7/2021 Wei Chen was promoted to full professor
4/2021 Xinjun Wang won 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award
4/2021 Xinjun Wang received Biostatistics Doctoral Award in the Annual GSPH Dean’s Day
3/2021 Xinjun Wang was honored with the Student of the Year Award by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter
3/2021 Wei Chen joined the editorial board of Genome Biology
3/2021 Xinjun Wang won the Outstanding Student Research Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
3/2021 Molin Yue won the Best Oral Presentations Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
3//2021 Zhongli Xu received an Abstract Scholarship from Assembly on Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation (AII) in ATS
3/2021 Zhongli Xu’s abstract was accepted for oral presentation at 2021 ATS International Conference
3/2021 Molin Yue’s abstract was accepted for poster presentation at 2021 ATS International Conference
10/2020 Wei Chen received PinCH award to study COVID using mobile health technology
9/2020 Xinjun Wang awarded International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Student Paper Award
8/2020 Wei Chen received R21 for the analysis of omics data in Hispanic asthma kids
7/2020 Wei Chen received R21 for the analysis of imaging and genetic data for age-related macular degeneration
6/2020 Xinjun Wang received RAC Graduate Student Fellowship from UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
6/2020 Rong Zhang defended his dissertation on High-Dimensional Inference of Modified Poisson-Type Graphical Models and Robust Sparse CCA, with Applications to Large-Scale Omics Data
4/2020 Tao Sun defended his dissertation on NEW STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COMPLEX SURVIVAL DATA WITH HIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES
4/2020 Tao Sun was inducted to the Delta Omega Honor Society, which is a renowed national honorary society (founded in 1924) in the field of public health
3/2020 Zhe Sun was nominated Outstanding Student Award from Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH)
3/2020 Yue Wei won the Honorable Mentions for the oral presentation in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
3/2020 Tao Sun won the Best Presentation Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
11/2019 Tao Sun received a Travel Award at the MD Anderson Cancer Center to attend the Integrative Biostatistics Research for Imaging, Genomics and High-throughput Technologies in Precision Medicine (iBRIGHT) conference
7/2019 Xinjun Wang, with Dr. Wei Chen, awarded CTSI QuMP Pilots Funding, an NIH grant, from University of Pittsburgh
6/2019 Tao Sun received a Travel Award for the Deep Learning Workshop hosted by the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)
5/2019 Tao Sun received the Lifetime Data Science Conference (LiDS) 2019 Best Poster Award
4/2019 Tao Sun received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for being a primary instructor in the Department of Biostatistics during both 2017 and 2018 academic years
4/2019 Tao Sun awarded International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Student Paper Award
4/2019 Tao Sun was honored with the Student of the Year Award by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter
4/2019 Yue Wei awarded American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter Poster Award
4/2019 Rong Zhang awarded American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter Student of the Year
4/2019 Yue Wei awarded Lifetime Data Science Conference (LiDS) Student Paper Award
3/2019 Rong Zhang is one of the five poster winners at ENAR conference
1/2019 Ge Yang’s abstract was accepted as an oral presentation and Yale Jiang’s abstract was accepted as RaPID discussion
12/2018 Tao Sun and Zhe Sun both received ENAR Distinguish Student Paper Award, which is one of the most prestigious student awards in the field of Biostatistics
11/2018 Tao Sun received CTSI Young Investigator Award for developing novel deep learning methodologies and applications from the University of Pittsburgh