Masters candidate in Biostatistics, Monica Iram, will present: "Comparing Statistical Models for Analysis of Early Fungal Activity Data" Plan B Adviser: Dr. Biyue Dai Abstract: Cryptococcal meningitis (CM) is an infection of the brain that causes more than 100,000 HIV-related deaths each year. In therapeutic clinical studies that aim to evaluate treatment efficacy for CM, early fungicidal activity (EFA) during the first 2 weeks of therapy has been used as a standard quantitative measure of the rate of Cryptococcus clearance…