Last Updated: 04/06/07
About the Branch Chief
Richard Simon, Ph.D., is Chief of the DCTD Biometric Research Branch. Dr. Simon holds a doctoral degree in applied mathematics and computer science from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He has been at the National Institutes of Health since 1969 and has developed many of the statistical methods used today in cancer clinical trials...
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Overview
The Biometric Research Branch (BRB) is the statistical and biomathematical component of the Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD). BRB members provide statistical leadership for DCTD national research programs in clinical trials, developmental therapeutics, developmental diagnostics, diagnostic imaging, and statistical and computational genomics. During 2005, BRB consisted of 13 permanent doctoral-level research investigators supplemented by postdoctoral research fellows and guest researchers. Staff members have doctoral degrees and expertise in biostatistics, biomathematics, computational biology, and computer science.
The philosophy of BRB is to have the staff combine two functions: (1) collaboration and consultation with scientific administrators at DCTD and intramural investigators at the National Cancer Institute (NCI); (2) conduct of self-initiated research on topics important to cancer research and to the collaborative investigations. Combining these functions has enabled BRB to recruit and retain a very high-quality research staff, to provide the highest quality collaborative and consulting staff to DCTD and NCI scientists, and to accomplish research in the areas of statistical, mathematical, and computational sciences that is motivated and informed by real and important problems of current cancer research. BRB does not have a grant, cooperative agreement, or contract portfolio and does not sponsor or fund extramural research.
More information on many of the projects below can be found at: http://linus.nci.nih.gov/~brb/BRB-AnnualReport2005.pdf.
