Myrto Lefkopoulou Distinguished Lectureship
Nominations
Please include the candidate’s CV and a letter of nomination describing the contributions of the candidate, specifically highlighting the criteria for the award. Additional letters of support would be extremely helpful as well. Nominations are due July 18th, 2025
Please send nominations to : kpietrini@hsph.harvard.edu
About the Award
Established in memory of Myrto Lefkopoulou, this lectureship is awarded to a promising statistical who has made contributions to either collaborative or methodological research in the applications of statistical methods to biology or medicine, or who has shown excellence in the teaching of Biostatistics.
Ordinarily, the lectureship is given to a statistician who has earned a doctorate in the last fifteen years. The lecture is presented to a general scientific audience as the first Department colloquium of each academic year. The lectureship includes travel to Boston, a reception following the lecture, and an honorarium of $1000.
Past Recipients
- 2024 Alisa Stephens-Shields
- 2023 Stephanie Hicks
- 2022 Jeffery T. Leek
- 2021 Antonio Gasparrini
- 2020 Eric Tchetgen Tchetgen
- 2019 Veera Baladandayuthapani
- 2018 Elizabeth Stuart
- 2017 Ciprian Crainiceanu
- 2016 Mahlet Tadesse
- 2015 Debashis Ghosh
- 2014 Tianxi Cai
- 2013 Nilanjan Chatterjee
- 2012 Rafael Irizarry
- 2011 Jeffrey Morris
- 2010 David Dunson
- 2009 Xihong Lin
- 2008 Heping Zhang
- 2007 Francesca Dominici
- 2006 Jianqing Fan
- 2005 Mark van der Laan
- 2004 Geert Molenberghs
- 2003 Marie Davidian
- 2002 Danyu Lin
- 2001 Bradley P. Carlin
- 2000 Steven N. Goodman
- 1999 Giovanni Parmigianni
- 1998 Kathryn Roeder
- 1997 Ronald S. Brookmeyer
- 1996 Trevor J. Hastie
- 1995 Hans-George Mueller
- 1994 Michael L. Boehnke
- 1993 Louise Ryan