# (Iowa ISIB) Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics and Data Science

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF IOWA · 2022 · $256,128

## Abstract

Iowa Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics (ISIB)
The ultimate vision of this research education program is to increase the number of undergraduates who enter
graduate programs in Biostatistics and to maintain a solid underrepresented minority pipeline into biostatistics
graduate programs. We will recruit a diverse group of 20 trainees each year with a focus on minority,
underrepresented, disadvantaged students, and small liberal arts college students who wouldn’t have otherwise
been exposed to the field of biostatistics, for a seven-week research education program.
Recruitment targets rising seniors from colleges and universities without graduate programs or an extensive
undergraduate education in statistics or biostatistics, graduating senior students with no commitment to a
graduate program six months following ISIB, highly promising juniors with a clear vision to pursue graduate
degrees in biostatistics, some graduate students with a desire to pursue a second master’s or a PhD in
Biostatistics, and a few medical students with the goal to pursue a MD/PhD research track in Biostatistics. Special
efforts are made to recruit a diverse student body, including trainees from groups underrepresented in biomedical
research.
The curriculum is a four-component model based on instruction; application; exposure; and research. The
research education program is through case-based instruction of real biomedical study, consisting of classroom
didactic courses; computer laboratory training; invited talk sessions; Zoom sessions; shadowing
sessions; and clinical and translational research enrichment. As initiation to quantitative biomedical research,
trainees undertake biostatistics-faculty-mentored projects on biomedical research. Students select from a
pool of projects according to their interest, and are matched to a faculty mentor. Projects are based on the
analysis of biomedical data, and/or the design of a biomedical experiment, and/or the statistical and
computational issues associated with big data and artificial intelligence. The research teams present their
research findings at the program’s concluding symposium. Trainees interact with biostatisticians in academia,
industry, the pharmaceutical industry; biomedical researchers; biostatistics graduate students; biostatistics
alumni and others. Guidance on how to successfully prepare for a GRE, how to prepare a successful admission
application and how to apply to graduate schools is also provided.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10364843
- **Project number:** 1R25HL161716-01
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
- **Principal Investigator:** GIDEON D ZAMBA
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $256,128
- **Award type:** 1
- **Project period:** 2022-03-01 → 2027-02-28

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10364843

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10364843, (Iowa ISIB) Summer Institute for Research Education in Biostatistics and Data Science (1R25HL161716-01). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10364843. Licensed CC0.

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