Biostatistics and Informatics Core

Director: John Sorkin, M.D., Ph.D. 

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The BSC is a service center for CNRU researchers and will provide biostatistical consultation to other investigators who are doing research in the fields of obesity and nutrition at University of Maryland and the Baltimore VA Medical Center. Finally, the Core will develop new methods for the collection of data from older subjects. The specific aims of BSC are to:

• Provide CNRU researchers with a centralized, user-friendly information system for the acquisition, storage, review and analysis of data.
• Insure confidentiality, physical security, and logical integrity of all CNRU data.
• Assist the Safety Monitoring Board review the safety of CNRU studies.
• Produce reports that can be used to review data for accuracy, validity, and completeness.
• Analyze CNRU data that are to be presented in papers, reports, and at scientific meetings.
• Assist researchers in the design, implementation, and analysis of CNRU projects.
• Provide didactic training in statistical methods to CNRU faculty, trainees, and staff.
• Develop new methods for data collection in older people.
• Act as a statistical and informatics resource for non-CNRU (e.g. NIH funded) researchers.
•  Work with the Genetics, Genomics, and Genetic Epidemiology Core (GGG) on the analysis of Genetic data.

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