Biostatistics & Informatics Facility Core
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About
The Biostatistics and Informatics Facility Core (BIFC) plays a vital role in supporting CIEHS members’ research by providing state-of-the-art statistical and bioinformatics support and training to all CIEHS members. The BIFC is an essential resource for designing systematic acquisition and deposition of preclinical and clinical data as well as for providing intellectual input required for rigorous data analysis.
Services & Rates
- Provide state-of-the-art statistical support in design, analysis and dissemination of findings of a range of basic science, translational, clinical, population health and environmental epidemiology studies.
- Provide support for the integration of multi-omics data from both animal and human studies.
- Facilitate integration of exposure data with structural determinants of health to identify effect modifiers and mediators of the health effects of environmental exposures.
- Educate center investigators, staff and trainees in new methods related to statistics/omics approaches applicable to their research activities. Areas of special interest include, repeated measures models, measurement error, spatio-temporal methods, computational biology, statistical genetics, clinical informatics and Bayesian methods.
At present, there are no fees associated with this service. However, a fee-based model may be considered for future operations.
The BIFC support is for the CIEHS researchers. The assignment of BIFC members to particular projects or investigators is based primarily on the project requirements and availability of appropriate staff expertise.
