Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award


Most Recent Winners

Key contributors:

Madeline Pe
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

Corneel Coens
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

Ahu Alanya
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer

Martin Taphoorn
Leiden University

Saskia le Cessie
Leiden University

Bernhard Holzner
Medical University of Innsbruck

Johannes Giesinger
Medical University of Innsbruck

Lisa Wintner
Medical University of Innsbruck

Silene ten Seldam
Myeloma Patients Europe (representing WECAN)

Kristin Bjordal
Oslo University Hospital

Anders Ingelgard
Boehringer Ingelheim

Elektra Papadopoulos
AbbVie

Vivek Pawar
EMD Serono

Michael Schlichting
Merck Healthcare KGaA

Jane Chang
Pfizer

Satrajit Roychoudhury
Pfizer

Joseph Cappelleri
Pfizer

Paul Cislo
Pfizer

Anja Schiel
Norwegian Medicines Agency

Chantal Quinten
European Medicines Agency

Mallorie Fiero
US Food and Drug Administration

Vishal Bhatnagar
US Food and Drug Administration

Maxime Sasseville
Health Canada

Khadija Rantell
Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulations Agency

 

About the Award

The SPAIG Award was established in 2002 to recognize outstanding partnerships between academe, industry, and government organizations, as well as to promote new partnerships among these organizations. The award is sponsored by the SPAIG committee of the ASA and distinct from other ASA awards in that it recognizes outstanding collaborations between organizations, while recognizing key individual contributors.

Selection Criteria

Nominees must represent at least two of the organizations from academe, industry, or government. Also, their collaboration must have resulted in significant contributions to the statistical field with applications to real-world problems. Examples include publications, presentations at statistical conferences, exchange visits, support for graduate students, consulting jobs, grant support for faculty, and continuing education opportunities for statisticians outside of academe.

Nominations

Nominations are due by March 1, and required information can be found on the sample preview.

Award Recipient Responsibilities

The award recipients are responsible for providing a current photograph and general personal information the year the award is presented. The American Statistical Association uses this information to publicize the award.

Questions

Visit the SPAIG website.

Recent Award Recipients

2023: Joseph Ibrahim – UNC, Arvind Shah – Merck, Joseph Heyse – Merck (deceased), Frank Liu – Merck (deceased), Ming-Hui Chen – UCONN, Jianxin Lin - Merck, Donglin Zeng – UNC, Sungduk Kim - NCI, William Wang – Merck, Guoqing Diao - GWU, Xianming Tan – UNC, Ethan Alt – UNC, Amarjot Kaur – Merck, Lisa LaVange – UNC (nominator)
2022: The COVID-19 Multicountry Research Group
2021: DELPHI & ICECaP
2020: William A. Brenneman, Evren Gul, Roshan V. Joseph, Lulu Kang, Shan Ba, William R. Myers, Fang Cao, Chien-Fu J. Wu, Li Gu
2019:
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, and Sanofi Pasteur & Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, Amherst College, Hampshire College, University of Massachusetts - Amherst, and MassMutual Financial Group
2018: The Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE) & The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Past Recipients

Read about other recipients.