Conferences on Emerging Statistical Issues in Biomedical Research

生物医学研究中新兴统计问题的会议

• 批准号: 7267807
• 负责人: XIHONG LIN
• 金额: $ 2.43万
• 依托单位: HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7267807
• 关键词: Area; Basic Science; Bioinformatics; Biomedical Research; Biometry; Biotechnology; Boston; Cardiovascular system; Chronic Disease; Clinical Trials; Computational Biology; Critiques; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Depth; Detection; Development; Disease; Environmental Epidemiology; Epidemiology; Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center; Genomics; Joints; Malignant Neoplasms; Methods; Minority; Nature; Numbers; Nutritional; Observational Study; Physical activity; Prevention; Proteomics; Public Health Schools; Purpose; Randomized; Research; Research Personnel; Role; Scientist; Series; Time; Universities; Washington; Woman; design; innovation; interest; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): With the rapid advance of biotechnology especially in genomics and growing complexity of biomedical research, quantitative methods have become increasingly important in design and analysis of basic sciences studies, observational studies and clinical trials in cancer, cardiovascular and other chronic diseases. Modern biomedical research, which has become more interdisciplinary in nature, presents a significant number of emerging statistical and computational issues and places an urgent call for the developments of innovative quantitative methods, especially in observational studies, high-dimensional genomic and proteomic studies, disease detection and prevention, environmental epidemiology, nutritional and physical activity epidemiology, and designs and analysis of long-term randomized and observational studies and the role of causal inference. We propose an annual Conference on Emerging Statistical Issues in Biomedical Research, where each conference focuses on an emerging quantitative research area of most recent biomedical research interest and the particular focus of each conference evolves over time. The purpose of the Conference is to provide a timely interdisciplinary platform for biostatisticians, quantitative researchers and scientists in cancer, cardiovascular and other chronic diseases to critique existing quantitative methods, discuss in-depth emerging statistical issues, identify priorities and disseminate results. The Conference will be hosted by two world-leading biostatistics departments. The first conference entitled, "Emerging Statistical Issues in Biomedical Research: Observational Studies," will be launched in 2006 at the University of Washington campus in Seattle, in conjunction with the Joint Statistical Meeting, in order to publicize the Conference Series. It would be co-sponsored by the Departments of Biostatistics of the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The second to the fifth conferences will be held at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston between 2007 and 2010, with each focusing on an emerging quantitative research area, e.g., the second conference on "Emerging Statistical Issues in Biomedical Research: Bioinformatics and Genomic Epidemiology." It would be cosponsored by the Department of Biostatistics of the HSPH and the Department of Biostatics and Computational Biology of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Serious efforts would be made to engage women and minorities in Conference activities.

描述（由申请人提供）：随着生物技术特别是基因组学的快速发展和生物医学研究的日益复杂，定量方法在癌症、心血管和其他慢性疾病的基础科学研究、观察性研究和临床试验的设计和分析中变得越来越重要。现代生物医学研究在性质上已变得更加跨学科，提出了大量新出现的统计和计算问题，并迫切要求发展创新的定量方法，特别是在观察研究、高维基因组学和蛋白质组学研究、疾病检测和预防、环境流行病学、营养和体育活动流行病学方面。设计和分析长期随机和观察性研究以及因果推理的作用。我们建议每年召开一次关于生物医学研究中新兴统计问题的会议，每次会议都侧重于最近生物医学研究兴趣的一个新兴定量研究领域，每次会议的特别重点都随着时间的推移而发展。会议的目的是为癌症、心血管疾病和其他慢性病领域的生物统计学家、定量研究人员和科学家提供一个及时的跨学科平台，以批评现有的定量方法，深入讨论新出现的统计问题，确定优先事项并传播结果。