Cutting Edge Collaborations
The Biomedical Research Scientist and The Biostatistician
A unique feature of our IMSD training program is the opportunity for a biomedical graduate student and a biostatistics graduate student to collaborate. The biostatistics graduate student provides expertise on experimental design and statistical analysis. Thus, the biostatistics student gains the opportunity to learn more about biomedical research and gain experience as a consultant. The biomedical graduate students enhance their knowledge of biostatistics in an experiential learning opportunity.
Learning how to communicate and develop a productive collaboration across these two distinct disciplines has been a unique and rewarding experience for the graduate students and their faculty mentors.
Access to professional statistical consultation on the biomedical graduate student’s research project provides an enhanced competitive edge for fellowship grants and provides an invaluable resource to your lab and research mentor.
The opportunity to consult on biomedical research projects provides additional opportunities for publication and is an excellent addition to the biostatistical graduate student’s CV.
The element of the IMSD program is setting the pace for quantitative skills and biostatistics training within the school of medicine basic science departments and is a model that other training programs emulate.
Dr. Lloyd Edwards
This novel program is under the direction of Dr. Lloyd Edwards, Associate Professor of Biostatistics in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Dr. Edwards also coordinates a short course in quantitative skills for all biomedical graduate students. Dr. Edwards facilitates the collaboration with the biostatistics graduate student, the biomedical graduate student and the biomedical graduate student’s lab mentor.