News

Apr 2026 D1 student, Divya Pandey wins NMDSI 2026 summer scholar award, congratulations!

Mar 2026 Deep-MOTIFs project was presented in ENAR 2026 in Indianapolis, IN.

Jan 2026 Rare variant association test method, MIRAGE was published in AJHG.

Dec 2025 Call for Submissions: Integrative Cancer Genomics: Unveiling Novel Biomarkers — Special Issue in Genes (MDPI), with details.

Jun 2025 Deep-MOTIFs method for discovering novel autism risk genes was presented in WNAR 2025.

Feb 2025 Our team win the 1st place in faculty oral presentation at MUSoD research day.

Feb 2025 New paper that integrates genetics and transcriptome data implicates SCZ risk genes published in Schizophrenia Research.

Jan 2025 Our project, Deep MOTIFs-a deep learning approach for multi-omics integration for autism risk genes discovery, was funded by NMDSI Paving ROADS Seed Fund.

May 2024 Shengtong received golden apple teaching excellence award.

Jun 2023 Our team, including colleagues from Marquette dental school, Math and Stat department has received NMDSI mini grant to study dental care visits in Southeastern Wisconsin using data science approach.

Apr 2023 Our team, K M Sajjadul Islam, Marquette, Jiawei Wu, Marquette, co-mentored with Dr. Swapnil Tripathi, UWM, won 2nd place in inaugural Hack for Health, with the topic, Obstructive Sleep Apnea and its Impact on Risk of Cancer.

Jul 2022 Shengtong received NIH R01 subaward.

May 2022 Shengtong was selected to participate Marquette Summer Research Institute (SRI), 2022 to develop new skills, expand knowledge to boost research success.

Mar 2022 Thanks to Marquette Autism Initiative group, Shengtong becomes part of it to do autism research.

Jan 2022 Shengtong joined Marquette university school of dentistry as a biostatistician to work on exciting interdisciplinary research.

Dec 2021 Sophie graduated in UW-Milwaukee with a B.S. in Biology. Congrats.

Nov 2021 Shengtong was awarded UW-Milwaukee research assistance fund to conduct research.

May 2021 Congras to Sophie for being awarded SURF again for this summer. Thanks to UWM for generous support to constantly help students succeed!

Jan 2021 Congratulations to Sophie for being awarded Support for Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURF) at UW-Milwaukee, well done!

Aug 2020 Our abstract about a new Bayesian framework for rare variant analysis is accepted for a poster presentation in American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual conference 2020.

Aug 2020 A talk about a new Bayesian approach for rare variant analysis using functional annotations is presented (online) in joint statistical meeting (JSM) 2020.

Jul 2020 It is a privilege to be part of the large scale Autism Sequencing Consortium (ASC), an international team of scientists working collectively to identify ASD susceptibility loci and genes.

May 2020 A student research assistant position is available in our opioid research team this summer (filled).

Feb 2020 Our team, John Mantsch (Marquette), Praveen Madiraju (Marquette), Aleksandra Snowden (Marquette), Rina Ghose (UWM), Shengtong Han (UWM) have received a startup fund of $12,600 from Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute to study opioid crisis in Milwaukee.