Dr. Himel Mallick, assistant professor of population health sciences in the Division of Biostatistics at Weill Cornell Medicine, has been recognized with multiple prestigious awards for his contributions to biostatistics. He received the 2025 “Stan Altan” Best Nonclinical Biostatistics Paper Award from the American Statistical Association Biopharmaceutical Section for his paper in Statistics in Medicine, which described a statistical method and software for multi-platform single-cell data. Dr. Mallick was also honored with this award in 2023.
Dr. Mallick also led a paper on multimodal AI, which was recognized with the Junior Researcher Award by the Biostatistics and Pharmaceutical Statistics Section of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. The award, formally conferred to the first author at the Bayesian BioPharm Meeting 2025, underscores the collaborative efforts of the research team, including Dr. Mallick’s work in developing statistical methods with broad applications to biomedical data science.
“It is an honor to see our methodological work being acknowledged by the broader statistical community,” said Dr. Mallick. “I am grateful to my collaborators for their efforts, and I look forward to building on these contributions to advance the field of biostatistics and multimodal AI.”
Dr. Mallick is also the recipient of the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP) Fall 2025 Early Career Award for his outstanding contributions to kidney research. Funded by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, KPMP is a landmark initiative uniting scientists, clinicians, and patient partners to transform kidney disease research. The Early-Career Award recognizes investigators at the forefront of innovation whose work demonstrates both immediate relevance to KPMP and long-term potential to advance precision medicine.
Dr. Mallick’s project, “Smart Pseudobulk Representations Enable Multi-Omics and Digital Pathology Integration for Kidney Disease Research,” pioneers multimodal AI approaches to integrate diverse data types in the kidney. His work is directly aligned with KPMP’s mission of building a comprehensive Kidney Tissue Atlas, which will accelerate discovery and inform new treatments for chronic kidney disease and acute kidney injury.
With this, Dr. Mallick joins a select group of early-stage investigators who are shaping the future of kidney research through creative, patient-centered, and computationally driven innovations.
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