# Biostatistics Shared Resource

> **NIH NIH P30** · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · 2024 · $93,497

## Abstract

BIOSTATISTICS SHARED RESOURCE (BSSR): PROJECT SUMMARY
The primary goal of the Biostatistics Shared Resource (BSSR) is to facilitate the peer -reviewed researchof Wake
Forest Baptist Comprehensive Cancer Center (WFBCCC) members. BSSR collaborates with members from all
four research programs throughout all phases of cancer-related research projects. Major responsibilities are
assumed for methodological, statistical, and computational issues, including study design, sampling, statistical
aspects of clinical trial monitoring, interim reviews, and final analyses. BSSR supports the following four areas:
(1) clinical research protocol development, including development of appropriate statistical designs, preparation
of statistical sections, and review of the statistical content of all protocols submitted for Protocol Review
Committee review at the WFBCCC; (2) clinical trial monitoring and analyses, including monitoring patient
accrual, providing support for quality assurance efforts, and performing interim (when needed) and final
analyses; (3) statistical design and data analysis in support of grant development and publications, to provide
guidance and support in all stages of grant development and dissemination of research findings; this aspect of
service involves meeting with WFBCCC investigators to discuss the design and analysis plans for potential
grants, conducting regular planning sessions to brainstorm with WFBCCC investigators about potential grants,
performing statistical analyses of data, and providing interpretations of results as parts of presentations,
abstracts, and publications; and (4) leadership, education, and training, including participation in graduate-level
courses, T32-supported training grants, mentoring teams for K awardees and other junior investigators,
coordination of a Clinical Trials Boot Camp for early-stage investigators, and membership/leadership on
committees responsible for scientific and administrative decisions for the WFBCCC. BSSR is directed by Ralph
D’Agostino Jr., PhD, FASA. During the current funding period (11/01/2015-10/31/2020), BSSR assisted over
130 different investigators annually from over 22 different departments at Wake Forest who performed cancer-
related research. BSSR also assisted with over 250 grant submissions during this funding period. Among these
submissions, in the last year alone (11/01/2019-10/31/2020), BSSR members collaborated on over 40 different
extramurally funded grants, with over $15 million in annual direct costs awarded. In addition, BSSR members
co-authored over 220 peer-reviewed cancer-related papers with at least 14 publications with impact factor >10
during the funding period. BSSR also provides statistical support for a Program Project Grant (PPG) in
glioblastoma which is based in the Neuro Oncology Program (P01CA207206). BSSR members are currently
supporting ongoing work developing new PPG submissions in brain metastases and prostate cancer as well as
a P50 Specialized Progra...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10813811
- **Project number:** 5P30CA012197-49
- **Recipient organization:** WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
- **Principal Investigator:** Boris Pasche
- **Activity code:** P30 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $93,497
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1997-02-01 → 2027-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10813811

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10813811, Biostatistics Shared Resource (5P30CA012197-49). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-26 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10813811. Licensed CC0.

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