The Biopharmaceutical Section held its JSM poster competition during its mixer at the 2010 Joint Statistical Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia. Three awards were given.
Section News
Section Congratulates Award Winners
The Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE) section congratulates Alice S. Whittemore of Stanford University for winning the 2010 Nathan Mantel Lifetime Achievement Award for her lifetime contributions at the intersection of statistical science and epidemiology.
Business Meeting Covers Much at JSM
The Biometrics section held its annual business committee meeting at JSM 2010 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Topics of discussion included work being done by Statistics Without Borders, how to get young people more involved with the ASA, planning for JSM 2011, continuing education, the David P. Byar award, the section’s finances, and representatives to the Council of Sections.
FTC to Focus on Using Statistics to Improve Quality
Members of the Quality and Productivity Section invite you to attend the 54th Annual Fall Technical Conference (FTC), which will be held in Birmingham, Alabama, from October 6–9. The conference is a premier forum in which to discuss topics at the interface of statistics and quality, leading to a more effective use of statistics to improve quality.
Deborah Griffin Wins Mentoring Award
FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop on Horizon
The three-day FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop is one of a series of annual events that have been sponsored by the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section in cooperation with the FDA Statistical Association since 1996. This year’s workshop will be held September 20–22 at the Grand Hyatt Washington in Washington, DC.
SPES Short Course to Focus on Logistic Regression
The Section on Physical and Engineering Sciences will sponsor a one-day short course, Short Course on Logistic Regression Analysis, given by Richard Lynch at the Fall Technical Conference, which will take place October 7–8.
Byar Award Winners Announced
X. Jessie Jeng of the University of Pennsylvania was chosen as this year’s winner of the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award for “Optimal Sparse Segment Identification with Application in Copy Number Variation Analysis.” Jeng received $1,500 and a plaque.
Timely Program Offered
For JSM this year, the Statistical Consulting Section has put together an interesting and timely program that includes an invited panel and paper, topic-contributed panel and paper, and contributed paper and oral poster sessions.
Byar Award Winners, JSM Fill Out Section Activities
The Biometrics Section lists the David P. Byar Young Investigator Award winners and JSM 2010 program highlights.