{"id":1120,"date":"2018-10-25T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T23:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/?page_id=1120"},"modified":"2025-05-29T12:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-05-29T16:01:23","slug":"recent-news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/qbs\/recent-news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"
QBS PhD student Yifei Gao attended the Great Lake Bioinformatics (GLBIO) 2025 conference, and her presentation \u201cGenotyping CFTR with next-generation sequencing data using T1K\u201d won the Best Talk Award!
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<\/div>QBS MD-PhD student Tim Renier received an NIH F30 fellowship, awarded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). This highly selective award supports graduate and medical training for MD-PhD students who propose their own research and training plan. Using genetic, questionnaire, and functional MRI data collected at Dartmouth, Tim hopes his research will help shed light on the underpinnings of appetitive traits in preadolescents, particularly related to the function of GLP-1, the target of several new weight loss medications.
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<\/div>Dr. Ze Zhang Awarded 2024 John W. Strohbehn Medal for Excellence in Biomedical Research<\/a>
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<\/div>QBS PhD candidate Aidan Cook places 6th in the NFLs Kaggle competition<\/a>.<\/div>\n
New paper published featuring QBS student authors: Bobak, Carly & Zhao, Yifan & Levy, Joshua & O'Malley, A. James. (2022). GRANDPA: GeneRAtive Network sampling using Degree and Property Augmentation applied to the analysis of partially confidential healthcare networks<\/a>.<\/div>\n
QBS MS student Isimeme Udu speaks to Rolling Stone<\/a> about making music and being compared to Prince, while carrying a full load of challenging courses.<\/div>\n
Aaron McKenna, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular and systems biology at the Geisel School of Medicine<\/a>, is the recipient of a $1.5 million National Institutes of Health (NIH) New Innovator Award given annually by the NIH Director\u2019s Office to exceptionally creative scientists proposing high-risk, high-impact research.<\/div>\n
QBS PhD Candidate Ze Zhang,<\/a> has been awarded a 2022 Neukom Prize for Outstanding Graduate Research in Computational Science.\u00a0 Ze is a member of the Salas Lab<\/a> working with his mentor Lucas Salas, MD, PhD, MPH<\/a> on his innovative tumor cell project.\u00a0 Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n

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Britt Goods, PhD<\/a>, an assistant professor of engineering and QBS faculty member, participated in a new analysis which shows how milk-producing cells change over time in nursing mothers while a post-doc at MIT.
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Dartmouth Study Reveals Flaws in Statistical Modeling Approach Used in Health Services Research<\/strong><\/a>
\nFindings from\u00a0a new study<\/a>\u00a0conducted jointly at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, and published in\u00a0Health Services Research<\/em>, highlight the statistical drawbacks of one form of analysis commonly used in health services research while demonstrating the benefits of another. Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n
QBS MD-PhD students doing great things!\u00a0 <\/b>QBS student MD-PhD students Yasmin Kamal MD-PhD '22 and Marek Svoboda, MD-PhD ' 24 are lead authors on the paper:\u00a0\u201cScience Scholars Curriculum: Integrating Scientific Research into Undergraduate Medical Education through a Comprehensive Student-Led Preclinical Elective,\u201d\u00a0published in MedEdPORTAL.<\/a>\u00a0Together, Kamal and Svoboda worked to help create a unique curriculum in the Geisel Medical School to expose future physicians to scientific research who are interested in becoming physician-scientists.\u00a0 Read more\u00a0here<\/a><\/div>\n
\u00a0\u00a0Alumni News!\u00a0\u00a0<\/b>Matthew Davis, PhD, MPH, a 2014 graduate of QBS has received University of Michigan's Henry Russel Award, the university's highest honor for faculty members at the early to mid-stages of their careers. Read more\u00a0here<\/a><\/div>\n
Dartmouth welcomed 37 new tenured or tenure-track faculty members to the community this academic year (20\/21). Two of these new faculty members are QBS Faculty members,\u00a0 Lucas Salas<\/a> and Caitlin Howe<\/a>.\u00a0 Read more about all of the new faculty\u00a0here<\/a><\/div>\n
Barbara Jobst, MD<\/a>, was recently named the next Chair of the Department of Neurology at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth's School of Medicine.\u00a0 Dr. Jobst is a member of the QBS Faculty.\u00a0 Read more about Dr. Jobst\u00a0here<\/a> and\u00a0here<\/a><\/div>\n
Yasmin Kamal MD-PhD'22<\/a>, who recently completed her PhD in computational tumor immunology was featured in the Fall, 2020 issue of\u00a0\u00a0Dartmouth Medicine, <\/em>The Magazine of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Yasmin is now in her third year of medical school at the Geisel School of Medicine.\u00a0 Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n
Scott Gerber, PhD<\/a>, QBS Associate Director, QBS Faculty Member and professor of molecular and systems biology and of biochemistry and cell biology at the Geisel School of Medicine\u00a0was featured in the Fall, 2020 issue of\u00a0Dartmouth Medicine, <\/em>The Magazine of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth.\u00a0\u00a0Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n
QBS Faculty Member and Associate Professor of Computer Science, Gevorg Grigoryan<\/a> has received support from Dartmouth's Technology Transfer Office in the launch of his start-up company, Generate Biomedicines.\u00a0 Read more here<\/a><\/div>\n
Several QBS affiliated faculty and scientists have received promotions from the Geisel School of Medicine.\u00a0 QBS extends our sincere congratulations to them.\u00a0 Read more about them here<\/a><\/div>\n
QBS Faculty Member and Associate Professor of Engineering, Solomon Diamond<\/a> and his team have designed and created non-medical face masks with higher protection that standard face masks.\u00a0 Read more here about this amazing effort to help our community here<\/a> . <\/div>\n
Christiaan Rees,<\/a> 2018 QBS PhD graduate and soon to be a graduate of Geisel School of Medicine stands ready to serve in the fight against Covid-19.\u00a0 Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
QBS Faculty, Nicolas Jacobsen, PhD<\/a> and James O\u2019Malley, PhD<\/a> and QBS Students, Damien Lekkas<\/a> and George Price<\/a> recently authored and published a research brief examining the impact of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders on mental health -related Google search behavior. Read more <\/a>here<\/a><\/div>\n
Jennifer Emond, MS, PhD<\/a>, assistant professor of Biomedical Data Science and Pediatrics and QBS Faculty Member, has published the results of her year long study that provides evidence that fast food intake leads to weight gain in preschoolers. \u00a0 Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n
Scott Gerber, PhD<\/a>, professor of\u00a0professor of molecular and systems biology and of biochemistry and cell biology at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, QBS faculty member, and program director of the Cancer Biology and Therapeutics Research Program at Dartmouth\u2019s Norris Cotton Cancer Center (NCCC), has been named the Kenneth E. and Carol L. Weg Distinguished Professor. An expert in mass spectrometry and proteomics, Gerber is the first to hold this newly established professorship given by Kenneth Weg D \u201960 and his wife, Carol Weg. Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Christiaan Rees<\/a>, 2018 QBS PhD graduate and fourth year Geisel School of Medicine student was recently named a 2019-20 Syvertsen Scholar.\u00a0 Dr. Rees' PhD research\u00a0focused primarily on the use of computational methods, including machine learning techniques, to identify biomarkers produced by pathogenic bacteria and fungi.\u00a0Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n
\"With great power comes great responsibility.\"<\/em> Forbes Magazine interviews Dr. Alexander Titus<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, a 2018 Graduate of QBS, now the Assistant Director of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Technology in the US Department of Defense.\u00a0Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
Geisel\u2019s Quantitative Biomedical Sciences Program Graduates First 4+1 Student<\/a>:\u00a0Despina Karalis D '18, Guarini '19 is the first \"4+1 student\" to receive a Master of Science in Epidemiology from the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences (QBS) program. Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n

Geisel Receives $12.5 Million NIH COBRE Grant to Establish Center for Quantitative Biology:<\/a> \"The training we\u2019ve done with grad students in our QBS program has been very successful in merging different fields,\u201d says lead principle investigator, Dr. Mike Whitfield<\/strong>. \u201cThe big focus now will be to take that to the faculty level and encourage people to cross disciplines and work together in ways that are really more than the sum of their parts.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Read more here.<\/a><\/div><\/strong><\/p>\n
Saeed Hassanpour, PhD,<\/strong> a QBS faculty member and an assistant professor of biomedical data science and of epidemiology at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine, and of computer science at Dartmouth College, has received the 2019 Agilent Early Career Professor Award<\/a>. Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n
Research from Dartmouth\u2019s Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program formed the backbone of technical information used by the state of New Hampshire in its recent decision to reduce arsenic levels in public drinking water in the state. Read more here.<\/a> Epidemiology Department Chair, Margaret Karagas, PhD, <\/strong>a QBS faculty member is the Director of\u00a0\u00a0Dartmouth's Toxic Metals Superfund Research Program.\u00a0 She is also Director of the Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention Research Center and Center for Molecular Epidemiology.<\/div>\n
Two undergraduate students who are students of two QBS faculty members have been awarded the prestigious Goldwater scholarship.\u00a0 Jason Wei '20 is a student of Professor Saeed Hassenpour<\/strong> and Emma Easterman '20 is a student of Professor Olga Zhaxybayeva<\/strong>.\u00a0 Congratulations to Jason and Emma! \u00a0 Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n
Jennifer Emond, MS, PhD<\/strong>, assistant professor of\u00a0 Biomedical Data Science and Pediatrics and QBS Faculty Member is leading a Dartmouth research team aimed to extend previous research and develop a brief, parent-reported scale to measure external food cue responsiveness for preschool-age children that could be employed easily in their natural environments.Their study, Measurement of external food cue responsiveness in preschool-age children: Preliminary evidence for the use of the external food cue responsiveness scale<\/strong><\/em> is newly published in the journal, Appetite<\/em>.\u00a0 Read more here<\/a>.<\/div>\n
James O\u2019Malley<\/strong>, MS, PhD<\/strong>, a professor of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and of biomedical data science at the Geisel School of Medicine and director of the Program in Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, has received the 2019\u00a0ISPOR (International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research) Award for Excellence in Health Economics and Outcomes Research Methodology<\/a>.\u00a0Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n
Duane Compton, Dean of the Geisel Medical School has announced that\u00a0Michael L. Whitfield, PhD,<\/strong> has been named the chair of the Department of Biomedical Data Science at Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine. Read more here.<\/a><\/div>\n

Saeed Hassanpour,<\/strong>\u00a0Assistant Professor of Biomedical Data Science and of Epidemiology and a QBS Faculty member,<\/span>\u00a0has been quoted in\u00a0Becker\u2019s Clinical Leadership & Infection Control:<\/a><\/span>\u201cClinical implementation of our system would be able to assist pathologists for accurate classification of lung cancer subtypes, which is critical for prognosis and treatment.\u201d<\/em> <\/div><\/p>\n

Geisel Announces New Master of Science Degree in Quantitative Epidemiology <\/strong>\u201cI am very pleased to launch this new degree program that brings together our faculty from different disciplines to cross-train students in epidemiology, bioinformatics, and biostatistics to prepare them for a variety of future professional experiences,\u201d<\/em> says Duane Compton, PhD, dean of Dartmouth\u2019s Geisel School of Medicine. Read More<\/a> <\/div><\/p>\n

Megan Romano, PhD, MPH<\/strong>, assistant professor of epidemiology and QBS faculty member, leads a project investigating perfluoroalkyl substances and their effect on gestational weight gain, breastfeeding, and early life growth.\u00a0 The project, funded by a National Institutes of Health COBRE grant (Centers of Biomedical Research Excellence), is entitled \"Effects of Perfluoroalkyl Substances on Gestational Weight Gain, Breastfeeding, and Early Life Growth\"<\/em>.\u00a0 <\/em>Read an article about this research as published in the New Hampshire Union Leader<\/strong>.\u00a0 Read the article\u00a0here.<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n
New Machine Learning Method Could Spare Some Women from Unnecessary Breast Surgery
\nA Dartmouth research team,\u00a0 led by QBS and Biomedical Data Science faculty member Saeed Hassanpour, found a machine learning method to predict the likelihood that a high-risk ADH breast lesion is cancerous, potentially saving some women from unnecessary surgeries and overtreatment.\u00a0Read more<\/a> <\/div>\n

Kwame Wiredu, 1st<\/sup> year PhD student awarded scholarship to MDI Biological Laboratory\u2019s 2019 Applied Bioinformatics Program <\/strong><\/p>\n

Each year, MDI Laboratories organize hands-on\u00a0Applied Bioinformatics program<\/a>\u00a0for early career scientists interested in incorporating bioinformatics into their research. This year, Kwame Wiredu (1st year\u00a0QBS PhD Student) is one of 2 students receiving full sponsorship from the Dartmouth Lung Biology Center to represent the college in Salisbury Cove, Maine this Summer for the Applied Bioinformatics course. Kwame is passionate\u00a0about molecular epidemiology and biomarker discovery and is constantly exploring avenues to acquire new skills for his career goal. This course will employ tools such as UNIX command line, Galaxy, Bio-conductor, Biomart, the UCSC Genome Browser, KEGG, Gene Ontology, random forests, and support vector machines to mine meaningful insights into biomedical data such as human or mouse gene\u00a0expression. <\/div><\/p>\n

QBS and TDI faculty member James O\u2019Malley publishes article in Statistics in Medicine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The paper \u201cModeling a Bivariate Residential-Workplace Neighborhood Effect when Estimating the Effect of Proximity to Fast-Food Establishments on Body Mass Index\u201d by James O\u2019Malley and colleagues was published online in Statistics in Medicine on November 20, 2018 (https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/epdf\/10.1002\/sim.8039<\/a>).This paper makes an important advance in the statistical methodology for hierarchical models by allowing the latent or random effects of a neighborhood to have a bivariate impact through both residential and workplace exposure to fast-food establishments on an individuals\u2019 Body Mass Index (BMI). The paper solves a general gap in at the intersection of statistical methodology and statistical computing that occurs when a clustering variable impacts outcomes through multiple possibly correlated forms of exposure. The research team was led by Dr. James O'Malley and included colleagues at Dartmouth, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, all co-authors on this paper. <\/div><\/p>\n

QBS and Biomedical Data Science Faculty member Jennifer Emond quoted in Reuters Article<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThese young children don\u2019t buy these cereals on their own. Instead, it\u2019s likely that children see TV ads for these cereals and then ask their parents to buy the advertised brands,\u201d<\/em> says the assistant professor of biomedical data science and of pediatrics at the Geisel School of Medicine.
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Geisel Researchers Employ Machine Learning on Instagram Data to Identify Substance Use Risk
\nResults from an innovative new study conducted by a team of researchers at Geisel, including QBS faculty member Saeed Hassanpour<\/strong>, are the first to show that machine learning approaches can be used to identify potential substance use risk behavior, such as alcohol use, among social media users.\u00a0Read more<\/a> <\/div>\n

Stem Cell Transplantation May A<\/strong>id Hard-to-Treat Scleroderma Patients<\/strong>
\nResults from a new study led by researchers, Michael Whitfield<\/strong> and Jennifer Franks<\/strong>, at Geisel and presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago, showed that stem cell transplantation was beneficial to scleroderma patients who don\u2019t respond to current immunosuppressive therapies. Read more<\/a> <\/div><\/p>\n

Dartmouth Institute Receives $3.5M Grant for Research Aimed at Preventing Acute Kidney Injury During Cardiac Catheterization<\/strong>
\nA research team led by Dartmouth Institute Associate Professor Jeremiah Brown, PhD, MS,<\/strong> recently was awarded a $3.5 million grant from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIH) to test preventative interventions for acute kidney injury (AKI) occurring as the result of cardiac catheterization. Read more<\/a>\u00a0<\/div><\/p>\n

Dartmouth Institute Research Updates: Better Information = Better Health Outcomes<\/strong>
\nNew study on referral paths in the U.S. physician network related to U.S. cardiovascular treatment records; a better way to measure long-term survival rate for carotid endarterectomy (CEA) vs. carotid stenting (CAS). Recaps of the latest Dartmouth Institute research<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

Barbara C. Jobst, MD, PhD<\/strong>, <\/strong><\/em>Professor of Neurology at the Geisel School of Medicine and section chief in the department of neurology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, has been named the Louis and Ruth Frank Professor in Neuroscience.<\/div><\/p>\n

Dr. Diane Gilbert Diamond, Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Associate Director of QBS<\/strong>, has been awarded two grants by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH). Dr. Gilbert- Diamond was awarded an R01 (NIH Research Project Grant) in July of 2018. This study will employ a multidisciplinary approach to study childhood obesity and potential interactions between genetic factors and environmental food cues on brain reward system activity and excess consumption. This study is critical to understanding the etiology of child obesity and guiding future obesity prevention research. Read more<\/a> <\/div><\/p>\n

Dr. Gilbert-Diamond<\/strong> was also awarded an R21 (NIH Exploratory\/Developmental Research Grant) in September of 2018. This research aims to investigate the causal pathways among media multi-tasking, attention to food cues and eating in the absence of hunger. This research is critical to understanding the effects of the prevalent practice of media multi-tasking on cued overeating that may have important public health consequences. Read more<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

Dr. Annie Hoen<\/strong>\u00a0was awarded an R01 in biomedical informatics from the National Library of Medicine in August, 2018. The work funded by this grant will build new computational tools for integrating multi-omic data for quantitatively describing the interactions within human-associated microbial communities, and how they can be associated with disease risk. Also contributing to this work are Dr. Margaret Karagas<\/strong>, Dr. Juliette Madan and Dr. Jason Moore and Dr. Hongzhe Li at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Hoen is welcomes inquiries from graduate students and postdoctoral fellows interested in developing projects related to these goals.\u00a0Read more<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

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