Biostatistics and Industrial Statistics

Zhu, M., Mtshali, A., Mzobe, G., Magini, N., Mitchev, N., Khan, A., Demidkina, B., Murthy, M., Lewis, L., Xu, J., Shih, J., Elsherbini, J., Kama, A., Mafunda, N., Chetty, C., Vermeren, L., Passmore, J.-A. S., Happel, A.-U., Kwon, D., et al. (2026). Geographic Variation in Diagnostic Performance of Amsel Criteria and Nugent Score for Vaginal Dysbiosis Defined by 16S rRNA Gene Sequencing. The Journal of Infectious Diseases. Published. https://doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jiag399 (Original work published 2026)

Doms, H., Lambert, P., & Legrand, C. (2026). Joint modelling of longitudinal HRQoL data accounting for the risk of competing dropouts. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C: Applied Statistics. Accepted/in-press. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlag036 (Original work published 2026)

Bloom, S., Symul, L., Elsherbini, J., Xu, J., Hussain, S., Shih, J., Sango, A., Mitchell, C., Hemmerling, A., Parks, T., Kannan, A., Hussain, F., Cohen, C., Holmes, S., & Kwon, D. (2026). Vaginal microbiota impacts of a Lactobacillus crispatus live biotherapeutic and predictors of colonization in randomized controlled trial. Cell Host & Microbe, 34(4), 734-750. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.03.003 (Original work published 2026)

Potloane, D., Symul, L., Ngcapu, S., Lewis, L., France, M., Vermeren, L., Elsherbini, J., Chetty, C., Mafunda, N., Polliah, A., Mtshali, A., Kama, A., Magini, N., Mitchev, N., Mzobe, G., Khan, A., Demidkina, B., Goldenberg, M., Xu, J., et al. (2026). VIBRANT: A phase 1 randomized trial of multi-strain vaginal L. crispatus live biotherapeutic products in people with bacterial vaginosis. Cell Host & Microbe, 34(4), 751-760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chom.2026.02.016 (Original work published 2026)

Thanh Van Phan, Dai Thi Trang Vo, Phuc Duy Nguyen, Hung Thanh Nguyen, Nhan Nguyen Thanh Le, Tung Huu Trinh, Qui Dinh Nguyen, Nam Tran Nguyen, Trinh Tuyet Lam, Soetewey, A., Trung Vu Nguyen, Thuong Vu Nguyen, Speybroeck, N., Truong, H., Quang Duy Pham, & et al. (2026). Effectiveness of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines against invasive pneumococcal disease in Vietnamese children prior to national introduction: A matched case-control study. Vaccine, 77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2026.128349 (Original work published 2026)

Chetty, C., Mafunda, N., Happel, A.-U., Khan, A., Cooley Demidkina, B., Yende-Zuma, N., Saidi, Y., Mahabeer Polliah, A., Lewis, L., Osman, F., Radebe, P., Passmore, J.-A. S., Kwon, D., Ravel, J., Ngcapu, S., Liebenberg, L., Symul, L., Holmes, S., Mitchell, C., & Potloane, D. (2025). Randomized trial of multi-strain Lactobacillus crispatus vaginal live biotherapeutic products after antibiotic therapy for bacterial vaginosis: study protocol for VIBRANT (vaginal lIve biotherapeutic RANdomized trial). Contemporary Clinical Trials Communications, 48, 101554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conctc.2025.101554 (Original work published 2025)

Soetewey, A., Legrand, C., Denuit, M., & Silversmit, G. (2025). Right to be forgotten for mortgage insurance issued to cancer survivors: critical assessment and new proposal. European Actuarial Journal, 15, 15-43. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13385-024-00403-6 (Original work published 2025)

Soetewey, A., Legrand, C., Denuit, M., & Silversmit, G. (2025). Semi-Markov modeling for disease incidence risk and duration. Biostatistics and Epidemiology, 9(1), e2517916. https://doi.org/10.1080/24709360.2025.2517916 (Original work published 2025)

Mamede, L., Fall, F., Schoumacher, M., Ledoux, A., Bugli, C., De Tullio, P., Quetin-Leclercq, J., Govaerts, B., & Frédérich, M. (2024). Comparison of extraction methods in vitro Plasmodium falciparum: A1H NMR and LC-MS joined approach. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, 703, 149684 [1-9]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.149684 (Original work published 2024)

Servais, T., Laurent, F., Roland, T., Rossi, C., De Groote, E., Godart, V., Repetto, E., Ponchon, M., Chasseur, P., Crenier, L., Van Eeckhoudt, S., Yango, J., Oriot, P., Morisca Gavriliu, M., Rouhard, S., Deketelaere, B., Maiter, D., Hermans, M., Yombi, J. C., & Orioli, L. (2024). Mortality-related risk factors of inpatients with diabetes and COVID-19: A multicenter retrospective study in Belgium. Annales d’endocrinologie, 85(1), 36-43. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ando.2023.08.002 (Original work published 2024)

Fall, F., Coelho Cristino Mamede, L., Vast, M., De Tullio, P., Hayette, M.-P., Michels, P. A. M., Frédérich, M., Govaerts, B., & Quetin-Leclercq, J. (2024). First comprehensive untargeted metabolomics study of suramin-treated Trypanosoma brucei: an integrated data analysis workflow from multifactor data modelling to functional analysis. Metabolomics, 20(2), 25 [1-17]. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11306-024-02094-2 (Original work published 2024)

Héritier, H., Allémann, C., Balakiriev, O., Boulanger, V., Carroll, S., Froidevaux, N., Hugon, G., Jaquet, Y., Kebaili, D., Riccardi, S., Rousseau-Leupin, G., Salathé, R., Salzmann, T., Singh, R., Symul, L., Ugurlu-Baud, E., Verteuil, P., & Salathé, M. (2023). Food & You: A Digital Cohort on Personalized Nutrition. PLOS Digital Health, 11. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pdig.0000389 (Original work published 2023)

Costello, E., Digiulio, D., Robaczewska, A., Symul, L., Wong, R., Shaw, G., Stevenson, D., Holmes, S., Kwon, D., & Relman, D. (2023). Abrupt perturbation and delayed recovery of the vaginal ecosystem following childbirth. Nature Communications, 14(1), 4141. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39849-9 (Original work published 2023)

Thiel, M., Benaiche, N., Martin, M., Franceschini, S., Van Oirbeek, R., & Govaerts, B. (2023). limpca: An R package for the linear modeling of high- dimensional designed data based on ASCA/APCA family of methods. Journal of Chemometrics (Online), 37(7), e3482. https://doi.org/10.1002/cem.3482 (Original work published 2023)

Pircalabelu, E. (2023). A spline-based time-varying reproduction number for modelling epidemiological outbreaks. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics, 72(3), 688-702. https://doi.org/10.1093/jrsssc/qlad027 (Original work published 2023)

Legrand, C., & Tubeuf, S. (2022). Le développement des vaccins anti-Covid-19 est-il allé trop vite ? Regards économiques, Focus(29). (Original work published 2022)

Declercq, J., Van Damme, K. F. A., De Leeuw, E., Maes, B., Bosteels, C., Tavernier, S. J., De Buyser, S., Colman, R., Hites, M., Verschelden, G., Fivez, T., Moerman, F., Demedts, I. K., Dauby, N., De Schryver, N., Govaerts, E., Vandecasteele, S. J., Van Laethem, J., Anguille, S., et al. (2021). Effect of anti-interleukin drugs in patients with COVID-19 and signs of cytokine release syndrome (COV-AID): a factorial, randomised, controlled trial. The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 9(12), 1427-1438. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2213-2600(21)00377-5 (Original work published 2021)