Nominations Wanted for Myrto Lefkopoulou Lectureship

Each year, the Myrto Lefkopoulou lectureship is awarded to a promising biostatistical scientist who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine and/or excellence in the teaching of biostatistics.

Ordinarily, the lectureship is given to an individual within 15 years earning a doctorate. In the case of nominees without an earned doctorate, the committee makes a relative adjustment of time in keeping with the spirit of the selection process. The lecture targets a general scientific audience and is the first department colloquium of each academic year. The lectureship includes travel to Boston, a reception following the lecture, and an honorarium of $1,000.

Nominations for next year’s lectureship are welcome and should be sent to the Myrto Lefkopoulou Lecture Committee, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115. Nominations should include a letter of nomination and a CV and be sent by March 31, 2014.

The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecture was initiated in 1993 in memory of Myrto Lefkopoulou, a former faculty member and student in the department of biostatistics. Lefkopoulou died of cancer in 1992 at the age of 34.

Previous lecturers include Louise Ryan, Kathryn Roeder, Giovanni Parmigiani, Hans-Georg Mueller, Trevor Hastie, Michael Boehnke, Ronald Brookmeyer, Steven N. Goodman, Bradley P. Carlin, Danyu Lin, Marie Davidian, Geert Molenberghs, Mark van der Laan, Jianqing Fan, Francesca Dominici, Heping Zhang, Xihong Lin, David Dunson, Jeffrey Morris, and Rafael Irizzary.