Submissions are being accepted for the 2015 Biopharmaceutical Student Paper Awards. These awards are presented annually during the Biopharmaceutical Section open business meeting, which will be held at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Seattle, Washington, in 2015. Winners will present their papers during one of the contributed paper sessions at JSM and are encouraged to attend the section’s business meeting to receive their awards in person.
In 2014, the awards were $1,000 for first place, $600 for second place, and $400 for third place. Honorable mention awards ($200 in 2014) also may be given at the discretion of the student paper committee.
Student research papers with statistical content applicable to the biopharmaceutical arena are eligible for consideration. Submissions are judged for clarity, contribution to statistics, and biopharmaceutical applicability. Suitable topics include methodological issues in preclinical or clinical trials, epidemiology studies of drug (or device or biological) safety, genetic studies predicting drug (or biological) response, laboratory and toxicological data analyses, methods for high-dimensional data from high-throughput screening, and nonlinear pharmacokinetic modeling.
Both a complete and a blinded paper should be submitted electronically in PDF format by December 14. The submission email should contain the name, school, and contact information of the student. In the blinded version, the student’s name and affiliation/school should not appear and names for references should not be included in the text (numbers for references should be used in text; names should appear on the reference page only). References that would unblind a reviewer to the student’s name or the student’s advisor/collaborator should be removed and replaced with “reference removed.”
The length of the student paper should not exceed 15 pages of double-spaced text, with no more than five additional pages of appendices (20 pages maximum). Because of the volume of submissions received, the length limitation will be strictly enforced. Consider a manuscript style for the paper to facilitate publication in the JSM Proceedings or an appropriate journal.
Papers must be submitted no later than one year after graduation and reflect research completed while a student. Submissions should be labeled “Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Submission” and sent to Gary Aras, Biopharmaceutical Section JSM 2015 program chair, at garas@amgen.com. In addition to submitting a paper for judging, winners also must submit an abstract of the work as a contributed paper for JSM. All participants will be notified prior to the abstract submission deadline as to whether they have won. Requirements for contributed paper submission must be followed in addition to those for the student paper submission.
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