Doctoral Candidate, Department of Biomedical Informatics

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Research Interests

Personalizing cancer therapy.

Currently thinking about the identification, representation, integration, and systematic analysis of publicly-available clinical trial datasets. Also intrigued by trial design, statistics, machine learning, text mining, simulation and modelling, in vitro chemosensitivity testing, cancer biology, and caBIG.

Education

• 2006: Master of Science in Bioinformatics, University of Pittsburgh
• 1996: Master of Engineering in Digital Signal Processing, MIT
• 1995: BS in EE/CS, MIT

Publications

Piwowar H, Chapman W. Public Sharing of Research Datasets: A Pilot Study of Associations. Accepted by Metrics Pre-conference at ASIS&T Annual Meeting November 7, 2009 Vancouver, Canada.

Piwowar H, Chapman W. Identifying Data Sharing in Biomedical Literature. AMIA Annual Symp Proc November, 2008 6:596-600. PMID: 18998887 PMCID: PMC2655927

Piwowar H, Becich MJ, Bilofsky H, Crowley RS. Towards a Data Sharing Culture: Recommendations for Leadership from Academic Health Centers. PLoSMedicine 2008 Sept 2; 5(9):e183. PMID: 18767901 PMCID: PMC2528049

Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2008) Linking database submissions to primary citations with PubMed Central. In: BioLINK 2008. Full text

Piwowar, Wendy W Chapman (2008) A review of journal policies for sharing research data. In: ELPUB 2008.
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Piwowar (2008) Prevalence and Patterns of Biomedical Research Data Reuse. In: JCDL 2008 Doctoral Consortium. Published in the Bulletin of IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries Volume 4, Issue 2.
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Piwowar HA, Day RS, Fridsma DB (2007) Sharing Detailed Research Data Is Associated with Increased Citation Rate. PLoS ONE 2(3): e308. Full text