# Curriculum in Experimental Design and Statistics for Biomedical Researchers

> **NIH NIH R25** · JACKSON LABORATORY · 2022 · $90,420

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY
For many decades biomedical research has benefitted from experimental design and statistical methods that
give studies the power to reveal underlying mechanisms and processes. In spite of their long history and
empowering role in research, experimental design and statistical principles are not well understood by
experimental biologists. Our goal is to increase the number of biomedical researchers who are fluent in
experimental design and statistics by developing a curriculum that provides both the conceptual background
and applied practice for sound and reproducible experiments. To refine this curriculum, we will test and
evaluate the curriculum with an audience of postdoctoral and predoctoral researchers at the Jackson
Laboratory campuses in Maine and Connecticut. To disseminate the curriculum broadly, we will publish it as a
website under an open access license for self-study and for teaching. By building, testing, and disseminating
an openly accessible curriculum in experimental design and statistics, we expect to build statistical fluency
among biomedical researchers. By building this fluency, we expect these researchers to find new insights into
the complexity of human disease. As a result biomedical studies will have more power to uncover mechanisms
and processes, which will accelerate progress in human disease research.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10459357
- **Project number:** 5R25GM141520-02
- **Recipient organization:** JACKSON LABORATORY
- **Principal Investigator:** Gary A Churchill
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $90,420
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2021-08-01 → 2024-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10459357

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10459357, Curriculum in Experimental Design and Statistics for Biomedical Researchers (5R25GM141520-02). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10459357. Licensed CC0.

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