In conjunction with the 200-year anniversary celebration of Karolinska Institutet we are planning a one-day symposium on March 26, 2010 to highlight various biostatistics contributions to medical research. The symposium themes are 'Genetic epidemiology', 'Design of epidemiologic studies' and 'High-throughput data analyses'. There will be 3 sessions with invited speakers and poster sessions.
26 March 2010 at The Nobel Forum, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Bianca de Stavola, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
Wolfgang Huber, EMBL (European Molecular Biology Laboratory), Heidelberg, Germany
Jonathan Marchini, University Lecturer, University of Oxford, UK
Ornulf Borgan, Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo, Norway
Simon Tavaré, University of Cambridge, UK
Els Goetghebeur, Ghent University, Belgium
In addition, there will be internal KI speakers on each of the symposium themes: Juni Palmgren, Marie Reilly and Yudi Pawitan.
The symposium will be of interest to biostatisticians, statisticians and medical researchers.
It is free of charge but registration is required.
Register here: http://tinyurl.com/KI200Symposia Registration is closed.
This symposium is organised in conjunction with the meetings of the Swedish Statistical Association (Svenska Statistikfrämjandet, SSFr) and FMS (Föreningen för medicinsk statistik). The programme for the SSFr meeting contains seminars and discussions about "Statistical educations in Sweden - how to meet future challenges." Special guest speaker is Xiang-Li Meng from Harvard University. For more information about this meeting and the invited speakers please visit the SSFr web page. The topic for the FMS meeting will be "Recent research among academically young statisticians". More information (only in swedish) about this meeting is available here (PDF-file).
This symposium is organised by the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Karolinska Institutet as a contribution to the Institute's celebration of its bicentenary in 2010.