[3] While attending an International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Ellenberg obtained an ACT UP Treatment Research Agenda about humanizing drug trials.
[4] She moved again in 1993 to the Food and Drug Administration, as director of the Office of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research.
[3] With Thomas Fleming and David DeMets, Ellenberg is the author of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials: A Practical Perspective, published in 2002 by Wiley.
[6] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the Society for Clinical Trials.
[2] In 2019 she was given the Florence Nightingale David Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies and Caucus for Women in Statistics "for impactful leadership roles at the NIH, FDA and the University of Pennsylvania developing and evaluating new methodologies and specialized approaches to improve the conduct of clinical trials; for influencing ethical practice and leading development of important regulatory policies; for leadership in setting standards for clinical trial data monitoring committees; for senior statistical leadership for many multicenter clinical research network clinical trials; for distinguished leadership in numerous professional societies and national and international committees addressing major public health challenges; and for serving as an exceptional academic role model for faculty and students".