May Marks Second Issue of New Journal
Joseph Heyse, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research Editor
year—in Denver, Colorado— applications of statistical prin-
SBR organized an invited paper ciples that can be used by prac-
session introducing the goals of titioners. This includes papers
the journal. The theme of the ses- proposing appropriate statistical
sion was the statistical challenges methodology and information
in the pharmaceutical sciences. regarding the use of statistics in
Presentations were given by Qi phases of research; development;
Jiang, Dhammika Amaratunga, and practice in the pharmaceuti-
and Pamela Shaw, with an insight- cal, biopharmaceutical, device,
ful and highly motivating discus- and diagnostics industries.
sion by Robert O’Neill. SBR has Establishing SBR marks a tre-
another invited session planned mendous commitment by the
for JSM 2009 in Washington, ASA to the biopharmaceutical sci-
DC, titled “Novel Approaches to ences, and many people have con-
T
he May issue of the Adaptive Design.” The speakers tributed to get the journal to this
American Statistical include Richard Potthoff, Deepak point. ASA Past-President Peter
Association’s newest jour- Khatry, Anastasia Ivanova, and Lachenbruch and ASA Executive
nal, Statistics in Biopharmaceutical James Bolognese. Director Ron Wasserstein
Research (SBR), is now available. SBR is dedicated to the quan- have actively sponsored SBR.
This is the second issue; it and titative disciplines supporting the Lachenbruch, Kafadar, George
the first issue—plus a wealth of biopharmaceutical sciences. The Williams, James Whitmore, and
FastTrack articles—can be found idea for SBR was proposed by Mary Foulkes provided key stra-
at
http://pubs.amstat.org/loi/sbr. Bradley Efron during his term as tegic direction for SBR by serving
A quick look at the table of ASA president. It was Efron who on an advisory committee through
contents for the first two issues identified the need for the ASA the journal’s first two years of
demonstrates consistency with to address the growing impor- operation. Also, Janet Wallace set
the journal’s goals. There are tance and complexity of scientific up the SBR work space on the
papers about gene expression, challenges facing the research and web-based manuscript submis-
adaptive clinical trials, design development of pharmaceuticals sion and tracking system, Jina Lee
and analysis of vaccine clini- and vaccines. A task force led has been the editorial coordinator
cal trials, dose-response models, by Karen Kafadar constructed since the journal went live, and
drug interaction, meta-analysis, the business case for this new Eric Sampson has done a superb
and measuring the performance journal, which was approved by job as the production editor for
of screening tests. the ASA Board of Directors in SBR. Finally, SBR would not
To date, there have been 152 March of 2006. Consistent with be possible without the team of
paper submissions, with topics the ASA mission to promote the associate editors, referees, and, of
showing the variety of complex proper application of statistics course, authors.
problems in the biopharma- through excellence in practice The editorial team continues to
ceutical sciences. Additionally, and research, the specific goal of strive to attract outstanding arti-
special issues are in the final SBR is to address the growing and cles by ensuring each submission
stages of development from the increasingly complex needs of the receives a thorough and timely sci-
2008 annual meeting of the biopharmaceutical sciences. entific peer review.
International Chinese Statistical SBR publishes original peer- Online access to SBR is
Association and the inaugural reviewed articles directed toward available to all ASA members.
meeting of the International researchers and applied statisti- More information about SBR is
Society for Biopharmaceutical cians from academia, govern- available at
www.amstat.org/
Statistics, held this past June in ment, and industry. Articles publications, and inquiries about
Shanghai, China. focus on novel statistical meth- the journal can be directed to SBR
SBR also has plans for estab- ods, guidance on applications of Editor Joe Heyse at joseph_heyse@
lishing a presence at JSM. Last existing methods, or innovative
merck.com. ■
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