The NIH is requesting through the email below comments concerning the role of statistics and computing in medicl research that I thought might be of interest to some on the list.
Bill ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 14:20:17 -0400 From: "Pfeffer, Andrea (NIH/NCI) [C]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Statistics, Computation, and Informatics Dear Principal Investigators/Grantees, The statistical community has a unique opportunity to share ideas with the NIH leadership concerning major concrete problems facing NCI that require heavy computation, informatics, and statistical or mathematical methods for solution. Developing methods to solve some key problems would yield immediate benefits in understanding cancer biology, etiology, prevention, early detection, treatment or control. Perhaps some of the methods used to solve particular problems would be useful more generally. For example, there is a need to develop methods for data management and retrieval to process whole genome SNP data (500,000 SNPs) and combine it with individual-level covariates on thousands of cases and controls to determine which SNPs influence cancer risk. In addition to a considerable data management problem, there are statistical issues regarding how to screen for promising SNPs and how to validate them in independent samples. Ideas could be anything from developing a method to analyze protein structure, developing linkages for SEER data, spatial statistics methods/GIS, data mining, to simulation modeling For each problem, give a short description of why the problem is important and why it poses "informatic" or other special challenges, broadly defined. If you have something to submit, please send me a short paragraph by Sept. 1. Thanks, Ram Ram C. Tiwari, Ph.D. Mathematical Statistician & Program Director Statistical Research and Applications Branch National Cancer Institute 6116 Executive Boulevard, MSC 8317 Suite 504 Bethesda, MD 20892-8317 Phone: 301-594-6546 Fax: 301-480-2046 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l
