The conference is organized jointly by the Non-Clinical Biostatistics Leaders Forum and the Program on Quantitative Sciences in Medicine, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health.
The Non-Clinical Biostatistics Leaders Forum is a group of professional statisticians representing pre-clinical and non-clinical statistics groups from major pharmaceutical and biotech companies.
The conference will be arranged around three major topic areas, and for each area a team has been formed to oversee the planning efforts.
| Discovery/Early Development/-Omics | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chair: | Fred Immermann (Wyeth) | |||
| Members: | D. Amaratunga (J&J), D. Bennett (Biogen), B. Gunter (Genentech), J. Manro (Lilly), L. Sirota (FDA), M. Thoma (Harvard) | |||
| Pharmacology/Safety/Toxicology/pK | ||||
| Chair: | Keith Soper (Merck) | |||
| Members: | J. Chen (FDA), J. Colaianne (J&J), W. Hoffman (Elan), K. Lin (FDA), T. Lin (Abbott), B. Pikounis (Centocor), L. Zhou (Amgen) | |||
| CMC/Manufacturing | ||||
| Chair: | Charles Tan (Merck) and Jinglin Zhong (FDA) | |||
| Members: | S. Altan (J&J), S. Cahya (Lilly), D.J. Downing (GSK), J. Liao (Merck), T. Schofield (BCG), J. Schwenke (Boehringer), Y. Tsong (FDA) | |||
A Core Team oversees the planning and implementation of the conference. Its members are S. Altan (J&J), D. Bennett (Biogen), B. Boulanger (UCB), J. Colaianne (J&J), B. Pikounis (Centocor), and M. Thoma (Harvard).
Administrative support is provided by Vickie Beaulieu from the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health.