# Biostatistics Facility

> **NIH NIH P30** · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · 2020 · $412,921

## Abstract

Abstract: Biostatistics Facility (BF)
The Biostatistics Facility (BF) is a UPMC Hillman Cancer Center (HCC) shared resource that provides
experimental designs and data analyses for clinical, pre-clinical and translational research at HCC. Each HCC
disease center has a contact statistician who oversees the support of that center’s clinical trials, grant
applications, and pre-clinical and translational research. The laboratory-based and population programs are
also served by statisticians selected on the basis of disease focus and technical specialty (e.g., RNAseq
expression statistical analysis). The master statisticians support the programmatic biostatisticians’ work and
also function independently. In addition to traditional statistical methods, the faculty and staff are proficient in
Bayesian, computationally intense and machine learning methods. BF worked closely with the Cancer
Therapeutics, Cancer Biology, Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, Biobehavioral Cancer Control,
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention, and Cancer Virology programs in the last funding cycle. BF personnel
regularly interact with Cancer Bioinformatics Services, Cancer Genome Facility and IMCPL to ensure the
integrity and appropriate statistical analyses of biomarker and -omics data. BF personnel meet on a nearly
daily basis with CPDM to ensure that clinical trials are designed, implemented, completed and reported in
accordance with the requirements of the Department of Health and Human Services. Due to the rapidly
increasing complexity of research technology for DNA sequencing and genotyping, RNA sequencing and
expression, targeting and discovery proteomics, and immunoassays, programmatic statisticians work closely
with biostatisticians (some who are also programmatic biostatisticians, and some outside the BF),
bioinformaticians, epidemiologists and informaticians who are experts in these platforms. Over 95% of the BF
effort is dedicated to cancer-related research HCC.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10024338
- **Project number:** 2P30CA047904-32
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH
- **Principal Investigator:** DANIEL P NORMOLLE
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $412,921
- **Award type:** 2
- **Project period:** 1997-09-10 → 2025-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10024338

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10024338, Biostatistics Facility (2P30CA047904-32). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10024338. Licensed CC0.

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