Biopharmaceutical
JSM 2010
It’s also time to start thinking about invited sessions for next
Registration Open for
year’s Joint Statistical Meetings, which will be held July 31–Au-
gust 5 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Anyone interested in
organizing an invited session or who has ideas for one should Deming Conference
contact the section’s 2010 program chair, Hormuzd Katki, at
katkih@mail.nih.gov.
A typical invited session consists of three 30-minute talks fol-
lowed by a 10-minute invited discussion and 10 minutes of floor
discussion. However, other formats are possible. The 2009 pro-
gram is a good source for examples. Decisions will be made this
B
e sure to register for the
65th Annual Deming
Conference on Applied
month, so don’t delay.
Statistics. This year, the con-
Ideas for JSM 2010 short courses are also welcome and should
ference will take place
be sent to the section’s 2009–2010 Continuing Education chair,
December 7–11, 2009, in
Jerry Heatley, at
jerry.heatley@thoratec.com.
Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Speakers include authors
of eight recently published
Byar Young Investigator Award Winners
books. There will be four talks
The David P. Byar Young Investigator Award is given annu- by individuals from the FDA;
ally by the Biometrics Section to a new researcher in the sec- three tutorials on adaptive
tion who presents an original manuscript at the Joint Statistical designs in drug development;
Meetings. The award commemorates David Byar, a renowned two tutorials on clinical trial
biostatistician who made significant contributions to the safety data analysis; and tutori-
development and application of statistical methods during his
Deming
als on multivariate statistics in
career at the National Cancer Institute. This year, there were the pharmaceutical industry,
18 papers submitted to the Byar Award Committee, and the high-dimensional data analysis in cancer research, equivalence/
committee chose one travel award winner in addition to the noninferiority testing, bioinformatics, dose-finding with escala-
Byar award winner. tion and overdose control, megavariate data information extrac-
Sonja Greven, a postdoctoral fellow at The Johns Hopkins tion, multiregional clinical trials, and thorough QT studies.
University Department of Biostatistics, is this year’s winner of the Short courses include Analysis of Clustered Categorical
David P. Byar Young Investigator Award. She will receive $1,000 Data, taught by Alan Agresti of the University of Florida and
and present her winning paper, “On the Behavior of Marginal Bernhard Klingenberg of Williams College, and Statistical
and Conditional Akaike Information Criteria in Linear Mixed Evaluation of Surrogate Endpoints in Clinical Trials, taught by
Models,” at JSM in Washington, DC. Geert Molenberghs of the Universities of Hasselt and Leuven,
This year’s travel award winner is Xiaoxi Zhang of Pfizer for Belgium. Attendees will learn in-depth the most recent devel-
her paper, “Longitudinal Image Analysis of Tumor/Brain Change opments in statistical methodologies and theories, as well as
in Contrast Uptake Induced by Radiation.” Zhang will receive the statistical software used for the new methods. Attendees
$500 toward the cost of travel to JSM to present her paper. should be ready to apply the methods learned during the con-
Winners also will receive a certificate and plaque commemo- ference when they return to work.
rating their awards during the Biometrics Section mixer and Questions about the conference may be directed to the
business meeting on August 3. The committee was enthusiastic conference chair at
demingchair@gmail.com. To view a list of
about the response and exceptional quality of the applications. speakers or to register, visit
www.demingconference.com.
Congratulations to the award winners for their notable accom-
plishments and the applicants and committee members for their Fellow Candidates
excellent work.
Do you know someone in the Biopharmaceutical Section
The award committee consisted of Katie Kerr of the
who you think deserves to become an ASA Fellow? If so,
University of Washington, Kathy Cronin of the National
visit
www.amstat.org/fellows to determine whether the per-
Cancer Institute, Paul Vos of East Carolina University, Jeremy
son you have in mind is already a Fellow. If not, send the
Taylor of the University of Michigan, Daniel Heitjan of the
name(s) of the person(s) to Neal Thomas at snthomas99@
University of Pennsylvania, and Barry Graubard of the National
yahoo.com by August 31, 2009. The committee will evalu-
Cancer Institute. ■
ate each recommendation and aid the creation of a Fellow
nomination package for candidates judged most deserving
of this prestigious award. ■
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