Josée Dupuis Named AAAS Fellow.
Josée Dupuis, a professor and associate chair of biostatistics at Boston University School of Public Health, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Dupuis was honored for her “distinguished contributions to the field of statistical genetics,” which have led to the “discovery and improved understanding of the genetic basis for common human diseases.”
She is part of a class of 401 top researchers selected as AAAS Fellows for their scientifically or socially distinguished efforts to advance science or its applications.
This year’s AAAS Fellows will be formally announced in the “AAAS News & Notes” section of the journal Science on November 28, and will be recognized at a ceremony in February during 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting in San Jose, Calif.
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is the world’s largest general scientific society, and publisher of the journal, Science (www.sciencemag.org) as well as Science Translational Medicine (www.sciencetranslationalmedicine.org) and Science Signaling (www.sciencesignaling.org).
In 2013, Dupuis was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s preeminent professional statistical society. She was honored for “outstanding contributions to the development and application of statistical methods for genetics data; for excellence of collaborative research in mapping human complex disease genes; and for significant service to the profession, particularly at the interface of statistics with genetic epidemiology and medicine.”
In addition to her work at SPH, Dupuis serves as faculty on BU’s interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Bioinformatics. The program, one of the nation’s first of its kind, offers unique interdisciplinary training in the science, engineering, medicine and ethics of twenty-first-century cell biology.
Dupuis previously held a faculty position at Northwestern University and was a senior statistical geneticist at Genome Therapeutics Corporation, a small biotech company that was one of the industry leaders in genomic mapping and sequencing.
Along with her extensive experience in the development and application of methods for mapping complex traits, Dupuis’s work has included the development of rare variant association tests in families.
She is also involved with research associated with the Framingham Heart Study, collaborating on projects to identify genes influencing diabetes related traits, pulmonary function and biomarkers of inflammation.
In addition to her research, Dupuis is a co-instructor for BS858 (Introduction to Statistical Genetics) in the Fall, and teaches BS860 (Statistical Genetics II) in the spring semester of even years.