1. Student Conference Awards
ISCB Sub-Committee
Student Conference Awards
Terms of Reference, Membership and Report
ISCB39 Melbourne 2018: AGM Wed 29 Aug

2. Information Terms of Reference Members
Student Conference Awards googlegroups.com
Student conference awards are available for registered postgraduate students to attend the annual conference and present a paper.
The Sub-committee shall receive submissions, judge them, and administer the awards.
The rules and procedures are announced in a timely issue of the Newsletter and on the ISCB annual conference webpage.
Chair:
1. Nadine Binder (DE)
Secretary:
2. Katherine Lee (AU)
Members:
3. Carl-Fredrik Burman (SE)
4. Chris Metcalfe (UK)
5. Dimitris Rizopoulos (NL)
6. Jeremy Taylor (USA)
7. Richard Cook (CA)
8. Thomas Jaki (UK)

3. StCA: Report
We received 21 StCA applications: 4 from Canada; 3 from France, UK, and USA; 2 from Belgium and Singapore; 1 from Australia, Ireland, Nigeria, and Sweden.
The SC selected three students after a double-blind review of the submitted abstracts and summary papers from each applicant:
Name
Country
University
Topic
Session
Daniel Jamison Luckett
USA
UNC Chapel Hill
Estimation and Optimization of Composite Outcomes
OC31
(Wed)
Gabriel Isheden
Sweden
Karolinska
Joint modelling of breast cancer tumour size and lymph node spread
OC27
Thang Tat Vo
Belgium/
France
Ghent and Paris Descartes
Rethinking meta-analysis: addressing problems of non-transportability when combining treatment effects across patient populations
OC28
Thanks to the SC for judging the applications. Thanks to the President for approving the selection.
Please join me in congratulating them during the conference dinner.