Biostatistician Honored with Prestigious Mentoring Award
Photo: Steve McCaw/NIEHS
Dr. Clarice Weinberg received the 2024 Jeanne E. Griffith Mentoring Award—the highest honor of its kind to a statistician in federal, state or local government—in recognition of a mentor’s support and development of junior staff. The annual award is presented by the American Statistical Association.
Weinberg, a principal investigator in the Biostatistics and Computational Biology Branch at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, has mentored nearly 40 students and postdoctoral fellows and served on the thesis committees of more than 20 Ph.D. students during her career at NIEHS.
She also has published and worked with biostatistics and epidemiology trainees on nearly 200 scientific articles. These articles explored such topics as reproductive and hormonal risk factors in women, gene-by-environment effects on disease risk, and intimate care products and hormone-related cancers.
“One of her biggest contributions to the growth and development of her trainees is to teach them how to think about a problem by engaging in deep thought-provoking conversations, and working with them to identify and solve important scientific questions,” said Dr. Shyamal Peddada, an NIEHS senior investigator who nominated her. “I cannot think of anyone who deserves this award more than Dr. Weinberg.”
To read a Q&A with Weinberg about her award and the joy of mentoring junior staff, see: bit.ly/3zQre79.