Nonclinical Scholarship Award

Nonclinical Biostatistics Scholarship
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

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