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 17th, 2026

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.

2026 Recipient Biography

Recent Awardees

Past Recipients included:

• 2025 Marco Carone
• 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