Last Updated 7.30.07 Copyright 2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College.


Core Director: Rebecca Gelman, PhD
gelman@jimmy.harvard.edu
Associate Director: Heather Ribaudo, PhD
ribaudo@sdac.harvard.edu
HMS Triage Contact : Sandra Lee, PhD
sjlee@jimmy.harvard.edu

The Biostatistics & Computational Biology Core will:

  1. Provide short-term biostatistical consultation on references for statistical methods, explanation of computer results, evaluation of statistical methods and possible biases in published literature, appropriate sample size for simple studies, and choice of statistical computer packages;
  2. Provide medium-term biostatistical collaboration for design, analysis, and interpretation for outcome, epidemiology, clinical, animal, computational biology (e.g., viral and host genomics, gene expression, genotype/phenotype, and proteomics), and other laboratory studies (please note that grants of P01 size or larger should pay for this service via statistical salary support , and that grants smaller than P01 size should provide some statistical salary support if their statistical needs are large);
  3. Provide help in writing grant applications, clinical protocols, journal articles and abstracts for national or international meetings;
  4. Provide user education in study design and monitoring, statistical methods, statistical computer programs, and basic bioinformatics tools (e.g., website, database, and computational biology software packages);

  5. Participate in CFAR-related clinical, laboratory, and administrative meetings, seminars, and research planning sessions;

  6. Provide assistance to other cores (e.g., designs to find sources of variation of new assays, etc.)

I. Advance Notice Requirements for Biostatistical Consulting and Collaboration
Area Time to contact statistician
Grant Preparation
at least one month before the deadline
Analysis for Abstract
at least one month before the deadline
Protocol and Experimental Design
at least two weeks before the deadline


II. How to Contact Biostatisticians

If you have worked with one of the statisticians below on this project before, then contact him/her.
If you have not worked with one of the above statisticians on this project before, then please contact Sandra Lee if you are a Harvard Medical School researcher ( unless you are seeking computational biology help or training , in which case please contact Heather Ribaudo ).
Please contact Heather Ribaudo if you are a Harvard School of Public Health researcher or if you are from one of the other Harvard Schools . Please also contact Heather Ribaudo if you are seeking computational biology help or training.
Sandra Lee or Heather Ribaudo will triage your project to one of the CFAR statisticians.


III. CFAR Biostatisticians (as of 9/1/2006)

Name Office Email Phone
DFCI
Dr. Rebecca Gelman DFCI gelman@jimmy.harvard.edu 617.632.3629
Dr. Sandra Lee DFCI sjlee@jimmy.harvard.edu 617.632.2440
Dr. Musie Ghebremichael DFCI musie@jimmy.harvard.edu
617.632.5868
Yang Feng DFCI yfeng@jimmy.harvard.edu
617.582.7995

HSPH Biostatistics
Dr. Ronald Bosch HSPH ronbosch@sdac.harvard.edu 617.432.3024
Dr. Michael Hughes HSPH mhughes@sdac.harvard.edu 617.432.3161
Dr. Steven Lagakos HSPH lagakos@sdac.harvard.edu 617.432.2815
Dr. Heather Ribaudo HSPH ribaudo@sdac.harvard.edu 617.432.2897
Laura Smeaton HSPH smeaton@sdac.harvard.edu 617.432.2525
Julia Wu HSPH julia@harvard.edu 617.432.2824

HSPH Computational Biology (Bioinformatics)
Dr. Tianhua Niu HSPH tniu@hsph.harvard.edu 617.432.5900
Dr. LJ Wei HSPH wei@hsph.harvard.edu 617.432.2826

MGH
Bingxia Wang MGH bwang1@partners.org 617.724.8294


  
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