AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow Jake Basson writes about his data-driven decision-making work at the National Institute for General Medical Sciences—and what he’s found is encouraging.
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Post-doc Fellowships, Programs, and Opportunities
In an effort to help ASA members interested in finding and funding post-doctoral positions, the American Statistical Association is running a short series about recipients of federal post-doctoral fellowships, program officers, and potential host scientists. For our inaugural piece, we feature Q&As with four members who have received National Science Foundation (NSF) or National Institutes of Health (NIH) post-doctoral fellowships and program officers from NSF and NIH.
Short Course on Statistical Genetics and Genomics Planned
The University of Alabama at Birmingham’s Section on Statistical Genetics will offer the second annual National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)–funded short course, “Statistical Genetics and Genomics,” from July 9–13.
Who Wants to Be a Biostatistician (or Environmental Statistician, or Social Science Statistician, or …)?
In his column this month, ASA Research and Graduate Education Manager Keith Crank discusses funding for training biostatisticians.
NIGMS Seeks Applications for Research Training Program
In 2004, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences spearheaded a trans-NIH effort to increase the number of trained biostatisticians through its biostatistics predoctoral research training program. Applications for this program are now being accepted.