Lebanon — Giving consumers a simple tool to guide them in seeking better health care was the purpose when the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week issued star ratings for 3,662 American hospitals. At least CMS got the “simple” part right. The star ratings are intended to […]
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BMDS’s David Qian awarded the 2016 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research
Lebanon, NH On June 11, David Qian PhD ’16 (Quantitative Biomedical Sciences) was awarded the 2016 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research at the Dartmouth College’s Graduate Investiture Ceremony. The Strohbehn Award is awarded annually to a graduating Ph.D. candidate who best exemplifies qualities of a scientific […]
Biomedical Informatics: Creating Computational Strategies and Tools to Advance Research
Many of us may recognize biomedical informatics as the technology that was used in the Human Genome Project, which was launched around 1990. However, many people may not realize the breadth of this interdisciplinary field that draws upon computer science, computer engineering, information science, and cognitive psychology—where scientists develop ways […]
Better Health Through Better Data
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 […]
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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