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2009 Non-Clinical Biostatistics Conference

Program

 

Wednesday Afternoon, October 21

 
12:00  
 
 
Registration
 
 
1:00  

SHORT COURSE
Analysis of Longitudinal Data

Garrett Fitzmaurice (Harvard)

6:00  

MIXER
 

 

Thursday Morning, October 22


8:00  
 

Continental Breakfast and Registration
 
WELCOME AND KEYNOTE LECTURE
8:30   Welcome and Introduction
  

Donald Bennett (Biogen)

Mathis Thoms (Harvard)

  Keynote Presentation
 
8:45   FDA's Critical Path Initiative: Opportunities and Challenges ShaAvhree Buckman (FDA)
     

PHARMACOLOGY/SAFETY/TOXICOLOGY/PK
 Chair: Keith Soper (Merck)
  Invited Presentation
 
9:30   Should we Assess Tumorigenicity with the Peto or Poly-k Test? Ralph L. Kodell (U. Arkansas Med. Sciences)

10:15  

Break
 
  Contributed Presentations
 
10:30   Characterization of Gene Expression Profiles from Drug-Induced Liver Injury C. Chang (FDA)
11:00   Variable Triage Using Non-Negative Matrix Factorization J. Xia (NISS)
11:30   A Latent Pharmacokinetic Time Profile to Model Dose-Response Survival Data T. Jacobs (UCB)

12:00  
 

Lunch and Poster Session
 

Thursday Afternoon, October 22

CHEMISTRY, MANUFACTURING & CONTROLS (CMC)

 Chairs:  Charles Tan (Merck)

Jinglin Zhong(FDA)

  Invited Presentations
1:00   Multivariate Predictive Distributions: A Risk-Based Strategy for ICH Q8 Design Space Development
John Peterson (GSK)
  Contributed Presentations
 
1:45   Prediction-based Design Space as a general concept for drug development ... and role for statisticians
B. Boulanger (UCB)
2:15   Improved Protocol and Data Analysis for Accelerated Shelf-Life Estimation of Solid Dosage Forms
A. Carella (Pfizer)

2:45  
 

Break
 
DISCOVERY/EARLY DEVELOPMENT/-OMICS Chair: Fred Immermann (Wyeth)
  Invited Presentation
 
3:00   Dynamic Analyses of Neural Signals Emery N. Brown (Harvard-MIT)
  Contributed Presentations
 
3:45   Portable Linear Prediction Rules for Classification and Prediction with an Application to Toxicogenomics
N. Raghavan (J&J)
4:15   Detecting Drug Levels in the Brain using EEG Data P. Brain (Pfizer)
4:45   Dose-Response Assay Equivalence with Replicate Data
S. Novick (GSK)

5:15  

Group Photograph 
 5:45

Poster Session & Refreshment

Conference Dinner

 7:00 Welcome by Department Chair

 Victor DeGruttola

(Dept. of Biostatistics, HSPH)

  Invited Dinner Presentation
 
7:10 
Megatrends for the Statistics Profession Steve Ruberg (Lilly)
 8:00 Dinner at Elements Cafe
 

 

Friday Morning, October 23


8:00  
 

Continental Breakfast
 
DISCOVERY/EARLY DEVELOPMENT/-OMICS
 Chair: Fred Immermann
  Invited Presentation
 
8:30   The Importance of Simple Tests in High-Throughput Biology Keith Baggerly (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  Contributed Presentations
 
9:15   An Integrated 'Omics' Approach to Biomarker Discovery in Translational Medicine Research J. Kasturi (J&J)
9:45   Data Analysis Approaches for Modern Cell Biology Techniques
A. Handzel (Merck)

10:15  
 

Break
 
CHEMISTRY, MANUFACTURING & CONTROLS (CMC)
Chairs: Charles Tan (Merck) Jinglin Zhong (FDA)
  Invited Presentation
 
10:30   Quality Considerations in the Establishment of Specifications for Pharmaceuticals
Dennis Sandell (Siegfried), Terry Tougas(Boehringer)
  Contributed Presentation
 
11:15   The Mean versus Individual Measurements:  A Key to Developing a Risk Based Quality System
T. Schofield (GSK)

11:45  

Lunch
 

Friday Afternoon, October 23

CHEMISTRY, MANUFACTURING & CONTROLS (CMC)
Chairs: Charles Tan (Merck) Jinglin Zhong (FDA)
  Contributed Presentations
 
1:00   Evaluations of Parallelism Test Methods Using ROC Analysis
H. Yang (MedImmune)
1:30   Using a Tolerance Interval Approach to set Quality Specification and Sampling Acceptance Plan of Delivery Dose Uniformity Y. Tsong (FDA)

PHARMACOLOGY/SAFETY/TOXICOLOGY/PK
Chair: Keith Soper
  Invited Presentation
 
2:00   Kidney Toxicity Biomarker Qualification: A Journey Along the Critical Path Dan Holder (Merck)
  Contributed Presentation
 
2:45   Statistical Aspects of Allometric Scaling in Pharmaceutical Research L. Bijnens (J&J)

3:15  
 

Break
 
  Contributed Presentation
 
3:30   Experimental Design for Pop-PK Modeling
X. Hou (Merck)

OTHER/METHODOLOGY
Chair:  Bill Pikounis (Johnson & JOhnson)
  Contributed Presentations
 
4:00   Expected Design Space: A Bayesian Perspective based on Modeling, Prediction, and Multi-Criteria Decision Method P. Lebrun (Ulg, Belgium)
4:30   Meta-Analysis and Combining Information in fMRI
M. Vangel (MGH)
 5:00   Conference Wrap-Up
James Colaianne (Johnson & Johnson)