The Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health has named Nilanjan Chatterjee, Ph.D., Senior Investigator and Chief, Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, the 2013 Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lecturer. Dr. Chatterjee will present a lecture on Thursday, September 19, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Kresge G2. The title of the talk is "Genetic Architecture of Complex Diseases: Implications for Discovery, Prediction and Prevention". A reception will be held following the lecture.

The lectureship was established in perpetuity in memory of Dr. Myrto Lefkopoulou, a faculty member and graduate of Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Lefkopoulou tragically died of cancer in 1992 at the age of 34 after a courageous two-year battle. She was deeply beloved by friends, students, and faculty.

Each year the Myrto Lefkopoulou Lectureship is awarded to a promising statistician who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodologic research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine, and/or who has shown excellence in the teaching of biostatistics. Ordinarily, the lectureship is given to a statistician who has earned a doctorate in the last fifteen years. The lecture is presented to a general scientific audience as the first Department colloquium of each academic year. The lectureship includes travel to Boston, a reception following the lecture, and an honorarium of $1000. Previous recipients of the Lefkopoulou Memorial Lectureship have been Rafael Irizarry, Jeffery Morris, David Dunson, Xihong Lin, Heping Zhang, Francesca Dominici, Jianqing Fan, Mark van der Laan, Geert Molenberghs, Marie Davidian, Danyu Lin, Bradley P. Carlin, Steven N. Goodman, Ronald Brookmeyer, Michael Boehnke, Trevor Hastie, Hans-Georg Mueller, Giovanni Parmigiani, Kathryn Roeder, and Louise Ryan.

Nominations

Nominations for next year's lectureship are welcome and should be sent to the following address or made by e-mail by clicking on this link:

Nominations should include a letter of nomination and a C.V. All nominations must be received by March 31, 2014.

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