Student Fellowships

The Department of Biostatistics is pleased to announce the following Student Fellowships:

Pfizer Fellowships

Each year, a generous gift from the Pfizer Department of Global Research & Development helps support doctoral students in their years of study.

• 2008  -  Anna Snavely, Sihai Dave Zhao, Zeynep Coban
• 2006  -  Martin Aryee, Xiao Ding, and Peng Zhang
• 2005  -  Martin Aryee and Lixia Pei
• 2004  -  Martin Aryee and Lingling Li

Merck Company Foundation Quantitative Sciences Fellowship

The Merck Company Foundation Quantitative Sciences Fellowship Program provides 3-year fellowships encouraging the advancement of quantitative methods in biopharmaceutical research through the support of graduate studies.

• 2008  -  Gourab De and Layla Parast
• 2007  -  Gourab De and Rajeev Ayyagari
• 2006  -  Jess Mar, Sam McDaniel, and Armando Teixeira-Pinto

Eli Lilly Predoctoral Fellowship

The Eli Lilly and Company Foundation has actively supported the Department of Biostatistics underrepresented minority program for several years, most recently by establishing a predoctoral fellowship.

• 2005 -  Samuel McDaniel
• 2004 -  Samuel McDaniel

Frontier Science & Technology Research Foundation Scholar

Frontier Science (FSTRF), with a mission to advance statistical science, has generously established a scholarship fund earmarked for recruiting outstanding international students.

• 2005  -  Jessica Mar
• 2004  -  Xiao Ding and Lixia Pei

Schering-Plough Fellowship

The Schering-Plough Research Institute, as part of its longstanding partnership with the Department of Biostatistics, provides critical support for doctoral student training.

• 2005  -  Lu Wang
• 2004  -  Peng Zhang

Wyeth Fellowship

A partnership with the Wyeth Research Global Biostatistics Department and the Department of Biostatistics helps support doctoral students in the first two years of study.

• 2005  -  Xiao Ding

Taplin Fellowship

The Taplin Fellowship, awarded at the Harvard School of Public Health, offers a tuition award annually to an outstanding first or second year doctoral student via a competitive nomination process.

• 2005 -  Xiao Ding
• 2004 -  Xiao Ding

Cabot International Scholar Program

Cabot Scholars, who hail from developing countries that face challenging public health problems, are selected on the basis of their professional and academic distinction.

• 2005 -  Samuel McDaniel
• 2004 -  Liliana Orellana

Student Awards

Robert Balentine Reed Prize for Excellence in Biostatistical Science

The Robert B. Reed Prize is awarded each year to the student(s) receiving the highest grade on the Department's written qualifying exam.

• 2009 - Kaustubh Adhikari
• 2008 - Gourab De and Elizabeth Ogburn
• 2007 - Lee Dicker
• 2006 - Rajeev Ayyagari
• 2005 - Martin Aryee, Lu Wang and Rui Wang
• 2004 -  Xiao Ding
• 2003 -  Lingling Li
• 2002 -  Jarek Harezlak
• 2001 -  Yannis Jemiai and Lu Zheng
• 2000 -  Denise Scholtens
• 1999 -  Lu Tian
• 1998 -  Scarlett Bellamy and Stephen Lake
• Fall 1997 -  Jonathan French and Aaron Foster
• Spring 1997 -  Tianxi Cai and Stevan Horvath
• 1996 -  Jason Fine
• 1995 -  Qian Li and Hongwei Zhao

Margaret E. Drolette Fund for International Students

The gift of family, friends and associates of Margaret E. Drolette to establish a research and teaching fund for international students in her memory at the Harvard School of Public Health.

• 2005 - Brisa Sanchez and Armando Teixeira-Pinto

Biostatistics Faculty Memorial Fund

• 2005 - David Engler, Beth Ann Griffin, and Natasa Rajicic