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George and Lavinia Blick Research Fund
The George and Lavinia Blick Research Fund was established to support research across the academic health center, and the scholar program has been used to recognize and support the outstanding research of junior faculty. The award honors health sciences, faculty, at the assistant professor level who have demonstrated growth toward achieving national or international recognition for their research, developed a record of obtaining external funding, and whose research is collaborative.
The George and Lavinia Blick Research Fund was established through a generous $2 million gift to be used to fund medical research on the MCV Campus.
The program honors health sciences, faculty, at the assistant professor level who have demonstrated growth toward achieving national or international recognition for their research, developed a record of obtaining external funding, and whose research is collaborative. Scholars receive $25,000 each year for four years to support their research.
Policies and Guidelines for Including Biostatistics Support on Grants
The guidelines lay out common scenarios and are meant to serve as a starting point for discussion for planning and budgeting purposes. In all cases, discussion with Biostatistics faculty early in the grant preparation process is necessary to ensure that the appropriate level of support is provided.
PhD faculty and master’s statisticians can participate in grant development in numerous ways including
If Biostatistics effort in proposal development is not covered by funded projects, time spent on proposal development will be billed at the current hourly rate or MOU.
Inclusion of Biostatistics Personnel in Project Budgets
PhD faculty effort:Biostatistics faculty should be included as named co-investigators (typically as key personnel) on collaborative applications. While effort may vary from year to year, an average of 10% effort (1.2 calendar months per year) over the project period is suggested as a guideline for most clinical projects and more complex basic science projects (see effort allocation guidelines below). Faculty may not be included on budgets for less than 5% effort without the approval of the Chair of the Department of Biostatistics.
Master’s statistician effort: Master’s statisticians and data management personnel provide assistance with data management, statistical programming, and preparation of reports and manuscripts. For most funded projects, master’s statistician should be coupled with PhD faculty effort.
Effort Allocation Guidelines
These guidelines provide suggested levels of support for projects of varying complexity and need of statistical expertise.
Large or complex projects (e.g. multi-site clinical trials, cores for program projects or SPORES): Total biostatistics annual effort 50–100+% per year, such as 20% or more of PhD faculty time plus 30–100% master’s statistician FTE.
Regular Projects (e.g., R01 involving clinical data, basic science project with complex analysis (eg. Omics data)): Total biostatistics annual effort 20–50%, such as 10–15% PhD faculty time plus 10–35% master’s statistician FTE.
Simple Projects (e.g., project under 250K direct per year): Total biostatistics effort 5–20% per year, such as 5-10% PhD faculty time plus 5-10% master’s statistician FTE.
Limited Scope projects: Total biostatistics effort <5% per year
Assistantships - Department of Biostatistics
The University of Buffalo’s Department of Biostatistics comprises a stipend and in-state rate tuition scholarship, At the time of admission all eligible students are considered for assistantships by the Admission Committee. Health insurance benefits may also be offered depending on the funding source. There are two major types of assistantships for eligible students:
- Teaching Assistantships: These last for 10 months and come with some benefits. Receive a scholarship that covers your tuition fees at the in-state rate, a stipend which is like a monthly payment of $20,000 and the possibility of health insurance coverage. Whereas In return, you're expected to spend up to 20 hours per week helping with teaching.
- Research Assistantships: The research assistantships last for about 12 months and also offers some benefits such as a tuition scholarship, a stipend of $24,000, and you might get health insurance coverage depending on the funding source and talking about your duties, then your duties as a research assistant will depend on the specific research project you're working on.