Director: J. Philip Miller
Web page: www.biostat.wustl.edu/scc/
The Biostatistics Core assists in the planning, conduct and analysis of research with the goal of enhancing the scientific quality of cancer-related research at Washington University Medical Center. Specific aims include:
- Providing biostatistical and methodological review of all protocols submitted to the PRMC for full review.
- Providing consultation during the design phase of protocols, including the selection of the appropriate study design, primary endpoints, sample size and statistical model.
- Collaborating in the analysis of data collected for cancer-related protocols conducted by SCC members. The protocols range from analysis of large-scale outcomes research protocols to clinical trials to basic science data.
- Consulting on the appropriate use of statistical models for cancer-related studies conducted by SCC members.
- Providing statistical and methodological review of all proposals submitted for SCC internal funding programs.
- Providing statistical consultation to other SCC Cores with respect to their missions. Important links exist for the Bioinformatics Core, Health Behavior Research Core, Clinical Trials Core, Pharmacology Core, Multiplexed Gene Analysis Core, the Small Animal Imaging Core and the Hereditary Cancer Core.
- Providing informatics services in manipulation and merging of existing electronic data sets.
- Providing data entry systems to support the conduct of protocols requested by SCC investigators.
- Providing access to the Barnes-Jewish Hospital cancer registry (maintained by Oncology Data Services) by means of a web-based interface for summary reports.
- Providing e-mail and other office automation resources to the SCC administrative unit.
- Providing e-mail list services to facilitate communication among members of SCC Programs and Focus Groups.
STAFF:
Kenneth Schechtman, PhD, PRMC statistician
Paul Thompson, PhD, biostatistician
Feng Gao, PhD, biostatistician, IRB and PRMC participant
Chi Gu, PhD, genetic epidemiologist
Jack Baty, MS, senior statistical data analyst
J. Kevan Essmeyer, MIS, MS, statistical data analyst
Kathryn Trinkaus, PhD, research statistician
Jean Zhang, MS, statistical data analyst
LOCATION: 3349 Barnard, Barnes-Jewish Hospital-South
TO ACCESS: For more information visit our webpage at www.biostat.wustl.edu/scc/, or contact Kathryn Trinkaus (314-362-3686, kimt@wustl.edu), or J. Philip Miller (314-362-3617, jphilipmiller@wubios.wustl.edu)
As of April 7, 2008, the NIH requires investigators with a publication using Siteman (or other NIH-funded) shared resources to submit (or have submitted for them) their final, peer reviewed manuscripts to PubMed Central (PMC) upon acceptance of publication, to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. Many journals automatically submit these for authors, but Washington University also has assistance available through the Becker Medical Library. Please see http://publicaccess.nih.gov/FAQ.htm#b7 or http://becker.wustl.edu/services/scholarly/nihpolicy.html for more information.
PUBLICATION ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: If research supported by the Biostatistics Core results in publication, please acknowledge this support by including the following in your publication(s):
We thank the Alvin J. Siteman Cancer Center at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., for the use of the Biostatistics Core, which provided __________ service. The Siteman Cancer Center is supported in part by an NCI Cancer Center Support Grant #P30 CA91842.