1. Student Conference Awards
ISCB Sub-Committee
Student Conference Awards
Terms of Reference, Membership and Report
ISCB40 Leuven 2019: AGM Wed 17 July

2. Information Terms of Reference Members
Student Conference Awards googlegroups.com
1. 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 procedure are announced in a timely issue of the Newsletter and on the ISCB annual conference webpage.
Chair:
1. Nadine Binder (G)
Secretary:
2. Katherine Lee (AU)
Members:
3. Jonathan Bartlett (UK)
4. Carl-Fredrik Burman (SE)
5. Richard Cook (CA)
6. Thomas Jaki (UK)
7. Andrea Jorgensen (UK)
8. Chris Metcalfe (UK)
9. Dimitris Rizopoulos (NL)
10. Jeremy Taylor (USA)
11. Lehana Thabane (CA)

3. Double-blind review, equally split between two groups of reviewers
Received 28 applications (abstracts and summary papers): 8 from the UK; 4 each from Belgium and the Netherlands; 2 each from Ireland, Spain, and USA; 1 each from Bangladesh, Canada, Czech Republic, France, Kenya and Sweden.
Double-blind review, equally split between two groups of reviewers
Thanks to all members of the SC for judging the applications. Thanks also to the President for approving the selection of applications.
Selected applications:
Name
Country
University
Topic
Session
Mitra Ebrahimpoor
Netherlands
Leiden University Medical Center
Analyzing Time-course Metabolite data in terms of Pathways
OC 2
Tasos Papanikos UK
University of Leicester
A Bayesian hierarchical model for surrogate endpoint evaluation across treatment classes
OC 3
Rickard Strandberg
Sweden
Karolinska Institutet
Random Effects Models for Breast Cancer Carcinogenesis and Growth in Mammography Cohorts
OC 4

4. Topics discussed at the SC meeting on Monday, July 15:
Number of awards conditional on number of applications we receive?
Increase awareness of awardees during the conference:
- at least, announce awardees in conference programme and somehow highlight their contribution
- may be separate session for award winners?
Looking for additional members, with consideration given to insure good representation with respect to area of expertise, country and gender