Funded Projects Title: General Clinical Research Center
Biostatistics Faculty: Vincent Arena, Statistician
Principal Investigator: Robert A. Branch, MD, Clinical Pharmacology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 12/98 - 11/05 Title: CVD Risk Factors and Sexual Identity in Women
Biostatistics Faculty: Vincent Arena, Co-Investigator and Statistician
Principal Investigator: Deborah Aaron, PhD, Health, Physical and Recreation Education
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 3/03 - 2/07 Title: OSA and Metabolic Syndrome: Role of Oxidative Stress
Biostatistics Faculty: Vincent Arena, Consultant
Principal Investigator: Mark Sanders, MD, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Crticial Medicine
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 10/03-8/07 Title: Psycho-physiological Influences on Physical Activity
Biostatistics Faculty : Vincent Arena , Statistician
Principal Investigator: Deborah Aaron, Ph.D., Health Physical and Recreation Education
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 9/04-8/09 Title: Impact of Strategies Used in Derivation of Air Pollution Models
Biostatistics Faculty : Vincent Arena , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Exxon Mobil
Funding Period: 1/05-12/06 Title: Data Management Project for Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) Study
Biostatistics Faculty: Vincent Arena , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Funding Period: 3/05-2/06 Title: BCPT CCOP and STAR-P2 Trials
Biostatistics Faculty: Joseph Costantino, Principal Investigator; John Bryant, Coordinating Statistician; Stewart Anderson, Statistician; Ann Brown, Statistician; Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Statistician; Stephanie Land, Statistician; Gong Tang, Statistician; Chien-Cheng Tseng, Statistician; H. Samuel Wieand, Statistician
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 6/1/01-5/31/06 Title: Coordinating Center for Treatment Trials
Biostatistics Faculty: Joseph Costantino, Principal Investigator; Stewart Anderson, Statistician; Wayne Baughman, Statistician; Ann Brown, Statistician; Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Statistician; Stephanie Land, Statistician;Gong Tang, Statistician; John Wilson, Statistician; H. Samuel Wieand, Statistician
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 2/1/01 - 1/31/06 Title: BCPT Genetics Supplement
Biostatistics Faculty: Joseph Costantino, Principal Investigator; John Bryant, Statistician; H. Samuel Wieand, Statistician
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 6/1/01 - 5/31/06 Title: Creation and Maintenance of an Occupational and Non-Occupational Medical Claims Analysis Database for PPG Industries
Biostatistics Faculty: Laura D. Cassidy, Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: PPG
Funding Period: 4/03 to 3/08 Title: Creation and Maintenance of an Occupational and Non-Occupational Medical Claims Analysis Database for PPG Industries
Biostatistics Faculty : Laura D. Cassidy , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: PPG
Funding Period: 4/03 to 3/08 Title: Childhood Abuse, Violence, PTSD and Substance Use
Biostatistics Faculty : Richard Day , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Cynthia Larkby, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry Funding Agency: NIDA
Funding Period: 6/05-2/10 Title: Prenatal Marijuana Exposure: Long-Term Outcomes
Biostatistics Faculty : Richard Day , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Nancy Day, Ph.D., Psychiatry
Funding Agency: NIDA
Funding Period: 2/05-1/10 Title: A Pilot Study of Acupuncture for Cancer Related Fatigue
Biostatistics Faculty : Richard Day , Statistician
Principal Investigator: Judith Balk, M.D.
Funding Agency: Magee Women's Hospital/NCI
Funding Period: 8/05-7/07 Title: Health Effects of Radiation Exposures in Russian Workers
Biostatistics Faculty : Richard Day , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency : NIOSH
Funding Period: 9/04-6/07 Title: Effects of Prenatal Cocaine Use; 15-Year Follow-up
Biostatistics Faculty: Richard Day, Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Gale Richardson, Psychiatry
Funding Period: 10/03 to 6/08 Title: Combinatorial Approaches for Novel Anticancer Agents
Biostatistics Faculty : Roger Day , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: John S. Lazo, Ph.D., Pharmacology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 04/01/05-03/31/10 Title: Statistical Modeling on Life Expectancy of Breast Cancer Patients
Biostatistics Faculty: Jong-Hyeon Jeong, Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: Army
Funding Period: 6/04-5/07 Title: Integrating Cancer and Aging at Pitt
Biostatistics Faculty: Stephanie Land, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 10/03 to 9/08 Title: Phase I/II Study of Vaccination with CPG Oligonuceotides CPG 7909 Alone or the Multi-Epitope Vaccine Containing the NY ESO 1 157 Alone or the Combination in Patients with Metastatic Measurable Melanoma and Other NY ESO 1 Pl
Biostatistics Faculty: Stephanie Land, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: Cancer Research Institute
Funding Period: 11/01/03 to 10/31/06 Title: Optimization of Melanoma Vaccines with T-Helper Epitopes
Biostatistics Faculty : Stephanie Land , Biostatistician
FundingAgency: NIH/NCI
Funding Period: 12/01/01 – 11/30/06 Title: Medical Surveillance Program and Epidemiologic Study for Former Chemical Workers at High Risk of Developing Bladder Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty: Gary Marsh, Principal Investigator; Laura Schall, Co-Investigator
Funding Agency: Pennsylvania Cancer Control Program
Funding Period: 7/01 - 6/06 Title: Cohort Mortality Study of the Clinton and Lafayette, IN Plants
Biostatistics Faculty: Gary Marsh, Principal Investigator; Ada Youk, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: Eli Lilly & Company
Funding Period: 9/96 - 7/06
Title: Program of Biostatistical Support
Biostatistics Faculty: Gary Marsh, Principal Investigator; Laura Schall, Co-Investigator
Funding Agency: Highmark Blue Cross/Blue Shield
Funding Period: 3/97 - 2/06 Title: Mortality Surveillance and Epidemiological Component Support Program for Owens Corning
Biostatistics Faculty: Gary Marsh, Principal Investigator; Ada Youk, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: Owens Corning
Funding Period: 01/02-12/05
Title: Epidemiology and Biostatistical Component of the Pratt and Whitney Cohort Mortality Study
Biostatistics Faculty: Gary Marsh, PhD, Principal Investigator; Ada Youk, PhD, Co-Investigator
Funding Agency: Pratt and Whitney (Division of United Technologies Corporation)
Funding Period: 7/1/02 to 6/30/08 Title: Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus Epidemiology and Etiology
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: D.J. Becker, MD
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 12/04 - 11/05 Title: Caregiver Intervention for Caregivers of SCI Patients
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Richard Schulz
Funding Agency: NIA
Funding Period: 9/02 - 6/07 Title: Aging Well, Sleeping Efficiently: Intervention Studies
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Timothy H. Monk, PhD, DSc, Psychiatry
Funding Agency: NIA
Funding Period: 6/03 - 5/08 Title: Treatment of Depression Following Cardiac Bypass Surgery
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Bruce Rollman, MD, MPH, General Internal Medicine
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 8/03 - 6/08 Title: Improving Quality Care for Anxiety Disorders
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Bruce Rollman, MD, MPH, General Internal Medicine
Funding Agency: NIHM
Funding Period: 3/04 - 2/09 Title: Maintenance Therapies in Late-Life Depression- III
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD, Psychiatry
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 3/04 - 2/09 Title: Geriatric Depression: Geting Better, Getting Well
Biostatistics Faculty: Sati Mazumdar, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Charles F. Reynolds, III, MD, Psychiatry
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 6/04 - 5/09 Title: Improving Prediction of Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM)
Biostatistics Faculty : Sati Mazumdar , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Massimo Pietropaolo , MD , Pediatrics
Funding Agency: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Funding Period: 7/04 – 5/08 Title: Training Biostatisticians in Psychiatric Research – Training Grant
Biostatistics Faculty and Principal Investigator: Sati Mazumdar
Funding Agency: NIMH
Funding Period: 8/05 – 7/2010 Title: Novel Strategies for Brain Tumor Therapy
Biostatistics Faculty: Doug Potter, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2001-06 Title: Phase I Clinical Trials of Novel Anticancer Agents
Biostatistics Faculty: Doug Potter, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2003-08 Title: Vaccine Development for Oral Carcinoma, Core C
Biostatistics Faculty: Doug Potter, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2002-07 Title: Characterization of the 11q13 Amplicon in Oral Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty : Doug Potter , Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2002 – 2007 Title: Protein Transduction Based Therapies for Breast Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty : Doug Potter , Biostatistician
Funding Agency: DOD
Funding Period: 2003 – 2006 Title: Dendritic Cell Biology and Therapy Program Project Grant
Biostatistics Faculty : Doug Potter , Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2004 – 2009 Title: The Role of Prolactin in Postmenopausal Breast Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty : Doug Potter , Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2004 – 2006 Title: Genomic and Proteomic Analysis of HPV-Associated SCCHN
Biostatistics Faculty : Doug Potter , Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 2005 - 2010 Title: ROC Analysis of Imaging Systems Evaluations
Biostatistics Faculty: Howard Rockette, Investigator; Andriy Bandos, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: David Gur, ScD, Radiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 05/01/02 to 04/30/06 Title: Basic and Clinical Studies of Cystic Fibrosis
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Statistician
Principal Investigator: Raymond Frizzell, Ph.D., Cell Biology and Physiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 9/05 – 7/10 Title: Assessment of Variance Structure in ROC Studies
Biostatistics Faculty: Howard Rockette, Investigator; Andriy Bandos, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: David Gur, ScD, Radiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 09/04 to 08/07 Title: Rule-Based CAD of Digitized Mammograms
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Investigator
Principal Investigator: David Gur, ScD, Radiology
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 3/03 – 2/07 Title: Myositis Treatment Trial
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Senior Statistician
Principal Investigator: Steven Belle, Ph.D., Epidemiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 10/04 – 9/09 Title: The Laboratory Effect in Breast Cancer Detection Studies
Biostatisitcs Faculty : Howard Rockette , Investigator
Principal Investigator: David Gur, ScD., Radiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 10/04 – 7/08 Title: Efficacy of 7 Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine PCV7 Prevnar in Preventing Nasopharyngeal Colonization with Non-susceptible S. Pneumoniae
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Statistician
Principal Investigator : Alejandro Hoberman, MD and Ellen Wald, MD
Funding Agency: Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Funding Period: 6/05 – 7/06 Title: Development and Evaluation of Stereographic Display for Lung Cancer Screening
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Statistician
Principal Investigator: Xiao Hui Wang, Ph.D., Radiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 11/04 – 10/07 Title: Predoctoral Research Training in Biostatistics – Training Grant
Biostatistics Faculty : Howard Rockette , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency : NIGMS
Funding Period: 7/05 – 6/10 Title: Cancer Center Support-Biostatistics Facility
Biostatistics Faculty: James J. Schlesselman , Facility Director; H. Samuel Wieand , Biostatistician; Roger Day , Biostatistician; Stephanie Land , Biostatistician; Doug Potter , Biostatistician; Hong, Wang , Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Ronald Herberman
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period : 08/01/04 – 07/31/09 Title: SPORE and Lung Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty : James J. Schlesselman , Core Director; Stephanie Land , Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Jill Siegried, Ph.D., Pharmacology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 05/01/01 – 4/30/06 Title: Identifying Low-Risk Patients with Pulmonary Embolism
Biostatistics Faculty: Roslyn Stone, Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Drahomir Aujesky, MD, Medicine
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 07/04-6/06 Title: Pittsburgh/Philadelphia VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence-Center for the Study of Health Disparities
Biostatistics Faculty: Roslyn Stone, Co-Chief, Biostatistics Core
Principal Investigator: Michael Fine
Funding Agency: Veterans' Administration Health Care System
Funding Period: 2001-06 Title: Comparing VA Health Disparities to Health Disparities Outside the VA
Biostatistics Faculty : Roslyn Stone , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Kevin Volpp, MD, Ph.D.
Funding Agency: VA HSR&D Service
Funding Period: 1/1/04 – 6/30/06 Title: Alcohol Use and HIV: Developing Computerized Interventions
Biostatistics Faculty : Roslyn Stone , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Joseph Conigliaro, MD, MPH, General Internal Medicine
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 6/05 – 5/07 Title: SPORE in Head and Neck Cancer
Biostatistics Faculty : Hong Wang, Biostatistician
Funding Agency: NIH/NCI
Funding Period : 2004 - 2009 Title: Simple in Vivo PET Measure of Amyloid Binding in AD
Biostatistics Faculty : Lisa Weissfeld , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Julie C. Price, Ph.D., Radiology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 4/04 – 3/07 Title: Hemadsorption to Improve Organ Donor Recovery (HiDonOR)
Biostatistics Faculty : Lisa Weissfeld , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: John A. Kellum, MD, Critical Care Medicine
Funding Agency: HRSA
Funding Period: 9/04 – 8/06 Title: In Vivo PIB PET Amyloid Imaging: Normals, MCI, and Dementia
Biostatistics Faculty : Lisa Weissfeld , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Steven DeKosky, MD, Neurology
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 5/05 – 4/10 Title: Detection, Diagnosis, and Intervention in Dementia
Biostatistics Faculty : Lisa Weissfeld , Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Steven DeKosky, MD, Neurology
Funding Agency: Pennsylvania Department of Health
Funding Period: 6/05 – 5/09 Title: NRSA Institutional Training Grant
Biostatistics Faculty : Lisa Weissfeld , Principal Investigator
Funding Agency: NCI
Funding Period: 9/01 – 8/06 Title: Genetic and Inflammotory Markers of Sepsis
Biostatistics Faculty: Lisa Weissfeld, Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Derek Angus, MD
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 4/01-3/06 Title: Long Term Outcomes of Nitric Oxide for Ventilated Premature Babies
Biostatistics Faculty: Lisa Weissfeld, Biostatistician
Principal Investigator: Derek Angus, MD
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 12/02 to 11/06 Title: Muscle Lipid, Insulin Resistance and Strength in Aging
Biostatistics Faculty: Lisa Weissfeld, Co-Investigator
Principal Investigator: Bret Goodpaster, MD, Medicine
Funding Agency: NIH
Funding Period: 7/04-6/08 | 
