# Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design

> **NIH NIH U54** · UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS · 2020 · $798,893

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT
The Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) core is a required component of
Mountain West Clinical and Translational Research Infrastructure Network (MW CTR-IN). BERD
provides data analytic support essential to clinical and translational research within the CTR-IN
network of 13 public universities in seven mountain west states. Consisting of a network of 13
sites, BERD supports research projects throughout their life course by ensuring valid study
designs, appropriate data acquisition, effective data analyses, and objective data interpretation
while continues to expand its technical capacity through training and development. In particular
BERD will expand its capacity to focus on supporting multisite studies of health disparities in the
region and supporting studies that leverage national databases and bioinformatics. BERD will
achieve its goal through a list of specific aims and associated activities:
1. Continue to provide accessible, high-quality services and collaboration in biostatistics,
 epidemiology, and research design to investigators throughout the 13 member institutions of
 the MW CTR-IN. BERD will campaign the model of Design-to-Dissemination (D2D) to
 enhance engagement with investigators throughout the life course of a research project,
 thereby enhancing team science.
2. Expand the capacity of, and provide technical assistance in, data coordination to support
 cross-site data needs in the expansion of multisite studies. This initiative will operationalize
 seamless implementation of data collection, management, analyses, and dissemination to
 support priority research such as health disparities.
 2a. Offer access both to data coordinating capacity currently in operation at the University of
 New Mexico (UNM) and to technical assistance to help expand and leverage data coordinating
 infrastructure already existing at other MW CTR-IN sites.
 2b. Develop and apply specialized study designs, tools, and biostatistical methods to address
 challenges arising from current and emerging studies.
3. Provide training to disseminate current and classical biostatistics in response to emerging
 needs at the MW CTR-IN, particularly those related to:
 3a. Emerging priority research such as health disparities.
 3b. Technical capacity for leveraging large databases and in bioinformatics within BERD.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9979979
- **Project number:** 5U54GM104944-08
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS
- **Principal Investigator:** Yiliang Zhu
- **Activity code:** U54 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $798,893
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** — → 2024-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9979979

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9979979, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (5U54GM104944-08). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9979979. Licensed CC0.

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