Dartmouth Institute Researcher James O’Malley Receives Funding for a 3-Year Project Aimed at Enhancing Statistical Methods in Order to Improve the Quality of Health Information for Patients with Vascular Disease As a Professor of Biostatistics at The Dartmouth Institute and the Department of Biomedical Data Science, James O’Malley spends much […]
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Risk alleles for environment-depended diseases are selectively neutral
Reviewing thousands of genome wide associate studies (GWAS) to identify genetic variants in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), investigators at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center found that some alleles (one of a pair of genes located on a specific chromosome) are more frequently risk-associated with disease than protective. The research, conducted […]
The Department of Biomedical Data Science is pleased to welcome Saeed Hassanpour, PhD to The Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Dr. Saeed Hassanpour, an expert in text mining and Big Data analytics, will join the faculty on September 1st as Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science in the Division of Biomedical Informatics. Dr. Hassanpour received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford School of Engineering, and he was the first […]
David Qian, M.D./Ph.D. candidate at Geisel School of Medicine, wins Best Poster Award at the 22nd International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco, CA
David Qian is a 4th-year MD/PhD student and a 2nd-year graduate student in the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences program. His research in Chris Amos’s lab is on the characterization and prediction of risk for common cancers through pathway analysis of genome-wide association studies. David would like to apply his current bioinformatics […]
Dr. Olga Gorlova appointmented to the Cancer Biomarkers Study Section at the Center for Scientific Review, National Institutes of Health
Dr. Olga Y. Gorlova has accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Cancer Biomarkers Study Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning July 1, 2015 and ending June 30, 2021. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific […]
Video: Precision Medicine in Cancer
Department of Biomedical Data Science Chair Chris Amos, PhD, discusses genetic screening at Norris Cotton Cancer Center. See the story broadcast on NH1 television:http://www.nh1.com/news/dartmouth-hitchcock-responds-favorably-to-presid… Watch the full interview here:
Geisel School of Medicine Adds New Departments to Enhance Research and Education Mission
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Dartmouth Awarded NIH Grant to Accelerate Clinical Research
Dartmouth SYNERGY has received a $3.2 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant that will help speed research and clinical trials of promising treatments at academic medical centers across the nation. Assuming success in this initial phase, an additional $1.6 million will be added to extend the impact of this […]