major professor. Submission should be made
by email as a PDF file to Bani K. Mallick at Previous Myrto Lefkopoulou Lecturers
bmallick@stat.tamu.edu by March 31, 2008.
The applicant must attend the conference to
Francesca Dominici Steven Goodman
present his/her paper.
Jianqing Fan Giovanni Parmigiani
Myrto Lefkopoulou
Mark van der Laan Kathryn Roeder
Distinguished Lecture
Geert Molenberghs Ronald Brookmeyer
Each year, the Myrto Lefkopoulou
Marie Davidian Trevor Hastie
Lectureship is awarded to a promis-
Danyu Lin Hans-Georg Müeller
ing biostatistical scientist who has made
contributions to either collaborative or
Bradley Carlin Louise Ryan
methodologic research in the applications
of statistical methods to biology or medi-
cine and/or excellence in the teaching of year. The lectureship includes travel to deadline for submission of nominations is
biostatistics. Ordinarily, the lectureship is Boston, a reception following the lecture, April 30, 2008.
given to an individual within 15 years of and an honorarium of $1,000. The annual Myrto Lefkopoulou
receiving an earned doctorate. In the case Nominations for next year’s lectureship Distinguished Lecture was initiated in
of nominees without an earned doctorate, should be sent to the Myrto Lefkopoulou 1993 in memory of Myrto Lefkopoulou,
the committee makes a relative adjust- Lecture Committee, Department of a beloved faculty member and student in
ment of time in keeping with the spirit of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard
the selection process. The lecture targets a Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, University. Lefkopoulou died of cancer in
general scientific audience and is the first MA 02115. Nominations should include 1992 at the age of 34 after a courageous
department colloquium of each academic a letter of nomination and a CV. The two-year battle. n
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