Daniel J. Sargent, PhD Memorial Fellowship in Innovative Clinical Trial Design and Methods

The Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology Foundation invites nominations for the Daniel J. Sargent, PhD Memorial Fellowship in Innovative Clinical Trial Design and Methods award each year. 

The fellowship award is for a one-year, non-renewable term, in the amount of $15,000 for salary support. It honors the contributions of Dr. Sargent to the field of clinical cancer research and it is geared toward faculty or masters level statisticians (working with a senior faculty member) within the Alliance Statistics and Data Management Center (SDMC).

Proposals must be closely tied to the research agenda of the Alliance and Alliance SDMC and should address study design and/or data analyses approaches that are directly relevant to current challenges in the areas of cancer clinical trials. The proposals should also address achieving innovation in one or more of the following areas: cancer clinical trial design, prognostic and predictive biomarkers, endpoints including patient reported outcomes, trial conduct and monitoring, analytical methods and trial execution. The work should directly lead to a peer-reviewed publication or preliminary data for a grant proposal.

The recipient of the 2024 DJS Memorial Fellowship award is Heather J. Gunn, PhD, Assistant Professor and Senior Associate Consultant I, Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, Mayo Clinic Arizona.

For more information about the fellowship, please contact Sumithra Mandrekar at mandrekar.sumithra@mayo.edu.