Congratulations to associate professors Simon Vandekar (pictured here at Commencement 2026 with newly minted PhDs Jiangmei Xiong and Megan Taylor Jones) and Dandan Liu (hooding Tianyi Sun at Commencement 2024) on their R01 grants from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Vandekar is contact PI for "Enhancing clinical trial analysis leveraging baseline neuroimaging data," with funding from the National Institute on Aging, and Dr. Liu is MPI of "Implementing tight blood pressure control in pregnant women with chronic hypertension," a study being supported by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Click the image to learn more about these projects.
Leading a team that included biostatistics professors Bradley Malin and Bryan Shepherd, PhD candidate Zhuohui Liang used artificial intelligence to simulate thousands of patients for HIV research. Click the image to learn more about MeLD (Medical Longitudinal Latent Diffusion), the new tool created by the team. Photo: Erin O. Smith / Vanderbilt Health.
Team RESI is a 2026 winner of the National Institutes of Health Replication Prize. Click the slide to learn more about the tool developed by associate professor Simon Vandekar and biostatistics graduate students Xinyu Zhang, Megan Jones, and Kaidi Kang. Pictured: RESI logo; Jones and Vandekar at Commencement 2026.
More than thirty Vanderbilt faculty, staff, students, and alumni are attending the 2026 Joint Statistical Meetings in Boston. Click the link for a list of events featuring department members. Pictured: associate professor Mario Davidson, who is featured in the program both as part of the Introductory Overview Lecture panel on statistical ethics and host of a lunch-time roundtable on implementing role-play in statistical courses. Photo: Yu Shyr / Department of Biostatistics.
Congratulations to Dr. William Dupont (center) on winning the 2026 Robert D. Collins Award for Excellence in Teaching and being named Professor Emeritus of Biostatistics upon his retirement. Dr. Dupont, internationally known for statistical studies that have had a transformative impact on clinical practice, also has been integral to the success of Vanderbilt Health’s Biostatistics Graduate Program and Master of Public Health (MPH) program, He was inducted into Vanderbilt Health’s Academy for Excellence in Education in 2021. Click the image to read more about Dr. Dupont's distinguished career. Photo: Donn Jones / Vanderbilt Health.
Since 2005, the Department of Biostatistics has offered free consulting to Vanderbilt and Meharry investigators who have methodological questions about their research projects or published articles. Click the image to learn about our Biostatistics Clinics and make an appointment.
The VBDCC tool development and data management units can help support your studies. Click the image to learn more.
Department portrait, Nov. 15, 2024. Photo: Donn Jones / VUMC
"As new biomedical research findings come to light, the role of biostatisticians may go unnoticed and unsung, but their contributions aren’t lost on their many research partners, whose decisions and discoveries tend to hinge on data collection and analyses led by biostatisticians." Our department's contributions to biomedical research are featured in the Spring 2024 issue of Vanderbilt Medicine; click the image to read the article. Illustration by Matt Chinworth.

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