The mission of the Biostatistics and Research Ethics Resource (BRER) is to promote excellence in clinical and translational research by providing biostatistical and research ethics support/collaboration during the design, conduct and analysis phases of your clinical and translational research projects. Assistance may be provided in many areas of research planning, development and analysis, including proposal development, experimental design, data analysis, manuscript preparation and interpretation and presentation of results. If you would like to talk to a BRER statistician or ethicist, please complete the Consult Request. Once you have submitted the request, you will be contacted by a BRER statistician within 3 business days.

The BRER aims to be easily accessible and comprehensive, offering support on several levels:

• Consultation - A basic level of consultation is available to all members in order to encourage and facilitate concept formulation of research ideas. Advice may be related to a pre-application activity. Statisticians assist with planning and design of studies, conduct of investigations, and data analysis. This limited consultation is available free of charge. This policy is to enhance science at UW and at MC and to encourage faculty, especially young investigators, to seek input at the earliest stage when this input is most critical. Our philosophy is that successful consultations often turn into collaborative relationships in which BRER statisticians are an integral part of the research team.
  
  
• Collaboration- projects that require more extensive ongoing support are expected to provide separate funding through individual grants and contracts, usually by including effort, salary and computing support for the resource faculty and staff. Collaborative efforts often result in co-authorship of papers in scientific journals. Such collaborations may stimulate biostatistical research on new methods to address emerging scientific questions.
  
  
• Methodology- Not all consultations and collaborations can be addressed by textbook or published biostatistical methods. Biostatisticians must often modify existing methods, or develop new methods, to meet the experimental design and data analysis needs of emerging projects. The result of the biostatistics methodology research is often of significant value to the original collaborating investigator, as well as to the research community at large.
  
  
• Training- The BRER will provide all clinical/translational researchers with training in biostatistical and clinical trial methods, and education in research ethics.

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