APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2026
Scholarship Amount: Up to $15,000
Relevant Disciplines: Biostatistics, Statistics, Data Science, Engineering, and associated fields
Requirements: 1,000-word research proposal focused on a topic in nonclinical biostatistics
Scholarship Benefits: Free admission to the 2027 Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference to showcase your work!
Application Submission: Applications should be emailed to John Kolassa at kolassa@stat.rutgers.edu
Are you a graduate student interested in topics in nonclinical biostatistics? Apply now for the Nonclinical Biostatistics Scholarship, sponsored by the Nonclinical Biostatistics Working Group from the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section!
| Information for Application Submission |
| Contact Information |
Names and contact information for student, faculty sponsor, and/or industry mentor |
| Research Proposal |
A research proposal of no more than 1000 words |
| Credentials |
Student CV and academic transcript |
| Research duration |
Anticipated period of research (specify summer, semester, or longer period) |
| Fund allocation |
A plan for allocating the funds |
More Details -
The Nonclinical Biostatistics Working Group of the Biopharmaceutical Section of ASA is pleased to announce a scholarship program, open to students in US graduate programs. Envisioned disciplines include (bio)statistics, data science, engineering, or related fields. We invite a student and faculty member, and optionally an industry co-mentor, to submit a research proposal addressing a topic in nonclinical biostatistics. To explore these topics, please see the related conference web site. The proposal should lead to a suitable publishable manuscript. The scholarship provides up to $15,000 in total, with at least $10,000 going directly to the student, with the balance available to the faculty mentor. Any overhead or indirect costs are the responsibility of the faculty mentor and cannot be paid from these funds. Applicants without a named industry co-mentor will be assisted in locating one by the scholarship steering committee. The directing professor and student will receive free admission to the 2027 NCB conference and will make either an oral or poster presentation at the conference. The research will be published in the Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research (SBR) special NCB conference issue subject to the normal refereeing process. Students from currently underrepresented groups in the nonclinical biostatistics community are strongly encouraged to apply.
The application due date is 1 Feb 2026.
Application is by email. Interested applicants should submit the following by email to John Kolassa: kolassa@stat.rutgers.edu
1. Names and contact information for the student, faculty sponsor, and industry mentor.
2. A research proposal of no more 1000 words.
3. Student CV and transcript.
4. Anticipated period of research. Specify that the research will be conducted over a summer, a semester, or longer.
5. A plan for allocating the funds.
Congratulations to past award recipients!
- Seokjun Choi, University of California Santa Cruz (2024)
Tolerance Interval Construction via Hierarchical Dirichlet Processes
- Zhili Qiao, Iowa State University (2022)
Poisson Hurdle Model-Based Method for Clustering Microbiome Features