Quantitative Sciences Seminar
3rd Thursday's, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
(Refreshments Served)
Past Seminars
September 19, 2019
"Genome-wide cell free DNA fragmentation as a biomarker for early detection of cancer"Robert Scharpf, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Oncology Biostatistics and Bioinformatics
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
October 17, 2019
"Quantitative Innovation in Drug Development"David Ohlseen, PhD
Advanced Exploratory Analytics Head
Novartis Statistical Methodology and Consulting Group
East Hanover, NJ
October 24, 2019
"The Role of Statisticians in Developing Regulatory Policy at the Food and Drug Administration"John Scott, PhD, MA
Director, Division of Biostatistics
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
Food and Drug Administration Silver Spring, MD
November 21, 2019
"Systems Biology of CD8 T cell dysfunction in mouse models of cancer, infection, and self-tolerance"Yuri Pritykin, PhD
Research Associate
Computation and Systems Program
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY
December 19, 2019
"HPC-acclerated exploration of multicellular cancer systems"Paul Macklin, PhD
Associate Professor, Director of Undergraduate Studies
Intelligent Systems Engineering
Indian University
Bloomington, IN
January 16, 2020
"Chromosomal Alterations in Normal Tissue: New Insights into Early Disease"Paul Scheet, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Epidemiology
Program Leader, Risk, Desk & Outcomes, Cancer Center Support Grant
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, TX
February 18, 2020
"Perspectives on over-diagnosis in cancer screeening: A roundtable discussion"Phil Prorok, PhD
Senior Scientific Program Manager
Division of Cancer Prevention
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, MD
March 19, 2020
CANCELLEDApril 16, 2020
CANCELLEDMay 21, 2020
"SARS-CoV-2, the Origin, the Virology and the Vaccines"Tony Wang, PhD
Principal Investigator
Laboratory of Vector-borne Viral Diseases
Division of Viral Products/CBER
US Food and Drug Administration
Silver Spring, MD