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Ingram Olkin Forum Committee Nancy Flournoy is an American statistician. Her research in statistics concerns the design of experiments, and particularly the design of adaptive clinical trials; she is also known for her work on applications of statistics to bone marrow transplantation, and in particular on the graft-versus-tumor effect. She is Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Statistics at the University of Missouri.
She was named as a Curators' Distinguished Professor in 2012. In the same year she also won the Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences. In 2019 Flournoy received the Founders Award from the American Statistical Association.