News and Events!

• Our new paper on a computer simulation model for immune response to influenza infection was seleted as the spotlight paper by Journal of Virology and for other press releases.
• Welcome Shenghua Li
• Welcome three new postdoctoral fellows, Drs. Kaja Abbas, Yeonok Lee, and Arun Kumar, who joined our division in 2008
• Dr. Hulin Wu was elected as Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Dr. Wu received the honor in recognition of his outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science on August 5, 2008, at the Association's 168th annual Joint Statistical Meeting in Denver. Each year, ASA members nominate their peers as fellows of the ASA. This is a great honor as the numbers of recipients are limited to no more than 1/3 of 1% of the ASA membership.
• New statistical methods for ordinary differential equation (ODE) models developed by Dr. Hulin Wu and his associates.
• Dr. Hulin Wu and Dr. Jingming Ma in our Division serve as Director of Biostatistics Core and Director of Informatics Core for the newly established New York Influenza Center of Excellence (NYICE), funded by NIAID/NIH with a total budget of $26 million for year 2007 to 2014.
  
  Link to NYICE news and NYICE websites:
  http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/current_research/bird_flu/index.cfm http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/news/newsreleases/2007/fluresearch.htm http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/influenza/index.html
  
  
• Dr. Hulin Wu and Dr. Dongwen Wang in Our Division serve as Co-Directors/Co-PIs with Dr. David Krusch) for the Key Function of Biomedical Informatics, the University of Rochester Clinical and Translational Research Institute (CTSI), recently funded by NIH with a total budget of $40 million from year 2006 to 2011.
  
  
• June 25, 2006 Medical News Today Scientists Aim To Thwart Use Of Flu As Bioweapon.
  
  
• June 22, 2006 television coverage of the Biodefense Immune Modeling Symposium.
  
  
• Dr. Hulin Wu co-authored a book with Dr. Jin-Ting Zhang: Nonparametric Regression Methods for Longitudinal Data analysis. Mixed - Effects Modeling Approaches. Published by Wiley in 2006.
  
  
• Dr. Hulin Wu co-edited an AIDS Modeling book with Dr. Wai-Yuan Tan: "Deterministic and Stochastic Models of AIDS Epidemics and HIV Infections with Intervention". Published by the World Scientific in 2005.
  
  

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