The Biopharmaceutical Section held its JSM poster competition during its mixer at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Three prizes were awarded to the following presenters:
First Place ($1,000)
Alice Dragomir, Jean-François Angers, and Sylvie Perreault of the University of Montréal; Jean-Eric Tarride of McMaster University; and Ridha Joober of McGill University for “Development and Validation of a Microsimulation Monte-Carlo Markov Model for People with Schizophrenia”
Second Place ($600)
Kelly Zou of Pfizer Inc. for “Adjusted Cumulative Distribution Function and Effect Size Methods for Stratified Two-Sample Comparisons”
Third Place ($400)
Michael T. Gaffney, Martin O. Carlsson, and Kelly H. Zou of Pfizer Inc. for “Harmonic Regression Analysis of Periodic Time Series Data from Clinical Trials”
Those planning to present a poster at JSM 2011 should consider participating in the poster competition, which is open to all JSM attendees. Authors who compete for the poster awards cannot also compete for the student paper awards. Three awards with cash prizes of $1,000, $600, and $400 will be given for first, second, and third places, respectively.
To participate, submit an abstract to the ASA with the Biopharmaceutical Section as the
sponsor by February 1, 2011. Then, submit your poster to Yongming Qu, chair for the poster awards, at quyo@lilly.com by May 1, 2011.
Each poster will be reviewed by two reviewers and an average score will be assigned; posters with the highest scores will be the winners.
Ribbons will be placed on the corner of the winning posters during the poster presentation, and winners will be announced and given certificates at the Biopharmaceutical Section mixer.
In addition to the poster competition, the Biopharmaceutical Section also held a student paper award competition. Eight papers were submitted, and two prizes were awarded to the following presenters:
First Place ($1,000)
Sihai Dave Zhao of Harvard School of Public Health for “Principled Sure Independence Screening for Cox Models with Ultra-High-Dimensional Covariates”
Second Place ($600)
Yoonjin Cho of North Carolina State University for “Improving the Efficiency of Testing Equality of Predictive Values Using Auxiliary Covariates”
Student paper awards are presented annually at the Biopharmaceutical Section open business meeting during JSM. Student research papers with statistical content applicable to the biopharmaceutical arena are eligible for consideration. In addition to submitting a paper for judging, students must submit an abstract of the work as a contributed paper for JSM. The categories for scoring are clarity, contribution to statistics, and biopharmaceutical applicability. The deadline for next year’s competition is March 31, 2011.
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