Ying Lu & Stanford DBDS colleagues win UCB-Stanford Industrial Relation & Digital Health Research Award

Ying Lu [pictured here], together with visiting scholar Ruben van Eijk and Tze Lai and Lu Tian of the Department of Biomedical Data Science and the Center for Innovative Study Design, plus Lorene Nelson of Epidemiology and the Center for Population Health Sciences, have recently won an award from UC Berkeley-Stanford Industrial Relations & Digital Health Research Project Solicitations on their proposed project, “Integrating Real World Evidence from Concurrent Registries into ALS Clinical Trials.” This award paves the way for software development and training for industry users.

Teri Klein named AAAS Fellow

DBDS faculty researcher Teri Klein is one of “Nine researchers from Stanford University and the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory [who] have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS describes their Fellows as ‘a distinguished cadre of scientists, engineers and innovators who have been recognized for their achievements across disciplines ranging from research, teaching and technology, to administration in academia, industry and government, to excellence in communicating and interpreting science to the public.'” Dr Klein is being recognized for her work in the “development, implementation and leadership of the PharmGKB resource, a database providing information about how human genetic variation affects response to medications.”