Quintiles Scholarship Award – Suraj Prakash Anand

Suraj Prakash Anand received the 2008 Statistics/Biostatistics Quintiles Scholarship Award. Quintiles selects two students annually who are well rounded and demonstrate great potential for leadership in the Statistics/Biostatistics field. The goal of this award is to identify and develop talent in the Statistics/Biostatistics field. Suraj Prakash Anand is a Ph.D student in Statistics at North Carolina State University. His advisor is Dr. Sujit Ghosh. He has an excellent GPA in his Ph.D program and has been working as a Graduate Industrial Trainee in Clinical Pharmacology and Statistical Sciences at GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development in RTP. Suraj also has a Masters degree in Statistics. He expects to graduate this semester and start his job in January with Novartis. He presents his research to scientists at Quintiles on October 14, 2009.