Abstract:
Biostatistics is the science of obtaining, analyzing, and interpreting data from medicine, biology, public health, and other related disciplines in order to understand diseases and improve human health. It helps to answer important medical questions, such as whether a new drug or vaccine works, what causes cancer and other diseases, and how long a person with a certain illness is likely to live. The field of biostatistics has grown tremendously over the last few decades and become a core component of statistical science. Biostatistics encompasses many important areas of statistics, including categorical data analysis, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, statistical genetics, imaging statistics, and precision medicine. It plays an indispensable role in modern clinical and epidemiological research and is the driving force behind recent discoveries of genetic variants for complex diseases and vaccines and treatments against Covid-19. Biostatistics will continue to flourish in the big data era, in which the volume, variety, and velocity of the data from genomics, medical imaging, and electronic health records present unprecedented methodological challenges. In this talk, I will provide an overview of biostatistics and its impact on modern biomedical research. I will also describe the biostatistics research and training programs at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
About the Speaker:
Danyu Lin is the Dennis Gillings Distinguished Professor of Biostatistics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Lin is an internationally renowned biostatistician who has made pathbreaking contributions to many areas of biostatistics. He has published 300 peer-reviewed papers, most of which appeared in top statistical journals. His papers have been cited 45,000 times, with a h-index of 95. His recent work on Covid-19 vaccines and treatments was published in New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA and was reported by the New York Times, Washington Post, and NBC News. Dr. Lin received the Mortimer Spiegelman Gold Medal from the American Public Health Association in 1999 and the George W. Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2015. He is a Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

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