<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><post link="https://sph.umich.edu/news/2026posts/university-of-michigan-biostatistics-researcher-turns-complex-health-data-into-better-treatment-decisions.html" display="true" featured="true"><title>University of Michigan biostatistics researcher turns complex health data into better treatment decisions </title><subject>Honored with the 2026 Excellence in Research Award, Donglin Zeng develops tools that help clinicians identify more effective treatments for individual patients and guide public health decisions</subject><subtitle/><description>University of Michigan biostatistician Donglin Zeng transforms complex health data into precision medicine tools that help clinicians personalize treatments and improve public health decisions. Honored with the 2026 Excellence in Research Award, his work blends statistics, machine learning and patient care to advance evidence-based medicine, vaccine research and healthier outcomes.
			</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 11:36:15 -0800</pubDate><tags><talking-about>Vaccines</talking-about><category>Biostatistics</category><talking-about>AI</talking-about><talking-about>Research</talking-about><category>News</category><talking-about>Biostatistics</talking-about><talking-about>Statistics</talking-about><talking-about>COVID-19</talking-about><talking-about>Health Care</talking-about><talking-about>Health Care Access</talking-about></tags><image><img src="/news/2026posts/images/donglin-zeng.jpg" alt="Donglin Zeng"/></image><imagelarge><img/></imagelarge></post>