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Student paper awards ($1000 cash prize) are presented annually at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Biopharmaceutical Section Open Business Meeting, held Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Winners are encouraged to attend the business meeting to receive the award in person. Student research papers with statistical content applicable to the Biopharmaceutical arena are eligible for consideration. In addition to submitting a paper for judging, the student must also submit an abstract of the work as a contributed paper for JSM. The categories for scoring are clarity, contribution to statistics, and biopharmaceutical applicability. Suitable topics include but are not limited to methodological issues in preclinical or clinical trials, epidemiology studies of drug (or device or biological) safety, genetic studies predicting drug (or biological) response, laboratory and toxicological data analyses, methods for high-dimensional data from high-throughput screening, and non-linear pharmacokinetic modeling .

The following guidelines will help in making the judging process fair and unbiased:

· Submissions should be labeled as a "student paper submission" and sent to Matilde Sanchez, Program Chair for the Biopharmaceutical Section, MSanchez@arenapharm.com. MSanchez@arenapharm.com.

· The work must also be submitted as a contributed paper for presentation at JSM. Requirements for contributed paper submission (Dec 1, 2008 - Feb 2, 2009 at 3pm ET) must be followed in addition to those for the student paper submission.

· Submissions of student papers for consideration must be received electronically in WORD or in .pdf format. Two versions should be submitted as follows: 1) complete paper and 2) "blinded" paper. The submission email should contain the name, school, and contact information of the student.

· In the "blinded" version of the paper the student's name and affiliation/school should NOT appear, names for references should not be included in the text (numbers for references should be used in text, names should appear on reference page only). References that would unblind a reviewer to the student's name or the student's advisor/collaborator should be removed and replaced with the text "Reference removed."

· The length of the student paper should not exceed 15 pages of double-spaced type of text with no more than 5 additional pages of appendices (20 pages maximum). Please consider a manuscript style for the paper to facilitate publication in the proceedings for JSM or in another appropriate journal.

· Deadline for student paper submissions is March 31, 2009.

Papers must be submitted no later than 1 year after graduation and reflect research completed while the author was a student.