Biopharmaceutical
Workshop Set for May 19-21
Melvin Munsaka, Takeda Global Research & Development, Workshop Publicity Chair, and Kimberly Crimin, Wyeth, Workshop Chair
F
or the 31st consecutive year, Ball State
University in Muncie, Indiana, will
host the Midwest Biopharmaceutical
Special Thanks
Statistics Workshop. The workshop, to take
Section members also would like to recognize the following, whose
place May 19–21, is cosponsored by the
contributions are vital to the success of the workshop:
Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA. Some
of this year’s sessions will be held at the
Co-registrars
Verizon Conference Center in downtown
Dachuang Cao and Elisa Gomez
Muncie. The program and other information
Past Treasurer
are available at
www.mbswonline.com.
Jackie Reisner
MBSW was founded as a conference to
Treasurer
meet the needs of pharmaceutical industry
Yonggang Zhao
statisticians in the Midwest. Although the Past Local Arrangements Chair
industry has changed, the workshop has Mir Ali
remained in Muncie and welcomed attend-
Local Arrangements Chair
ees from around the world.
Dale Umbach
The workshop will begin with a half-
Past Poster Sessions Chair
day short course, to be taught by Michael
Kim Perry
Proschan of the National Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases, about statistical
Poster Sessions Chair
monitoring of clinical trials. Two plenary
Krishna Padmanabhan
speakers, Jerome Friedman of Stanford
Chairman Emeritus
University and Rod Little of the University
Charles Sampson
of Michigan, will talk about generalized Workshop Consultant
boosting algorithms for regularized regres- Stan Young
sion and classification and missing data in
clinical trials Monday afternoon. look at statistical issues in the design and topic of interest to statisticians in the phar-
The program will move to its new for- analysis of “omics” experiments and include maceutical industry is welcome. Abstracts
mat of four parallel tracks for sessions on sessions on toxicogenomics, proteomics, must be submitted by April 21, 2008.
Tuesday and Wednesday. The fours tracks and metabolomics. Students are especially encouraged to
chosen for 2008 include a clinical track, The post-marketing track, organized participate in the workshop activities. To
discovery/pre-clinical track, nonclinical by Alan Menius of GlaxoSmithKline, will help financially, limited scholarships are
track, and data mining/post-marketing focus on the assessment of medicines post- available to students to offset travel costs,
track. Each will include three sessions. launch and include sessions on assessing with preference given to students who
Each session will include three to five safety, finding the balance in safety assess- present posters. The best student poster,
speakers and last for more than two hours, ment and evaluating the benefits and risks as judged by a committee including past
so speakers will have time to discuss their of medicines, and statistical issues in obser- workshop chairs, will receive the Charles
topics in detail and take questions from the vational studies. The nonclinical track, Sampson Award, named in honor of a
audience. Most sessions will have multiple organized by Tim Schofield of Merck, will founder and guiding force behind this suc-
speakers from industry and at least one look at statistical contributions to CMC cessful series of workshops. Students or
from academia. In addition, speakers from development, manufacturing and quality faculty sponsors interested in applying for
the FDA and other governmental agencies control, quality by design, specifications, scholarships should visit www.mbswonline.
will be invited to give presentations. and stability methods. com for more information.
The clinical track, organized by Alan Opportunities to meet speakers and net- Also available online is registration
Chiang of Eli Lilly, will focus on current work will be available during the Monday and hotel information. Questions not
issues in clinical trials and feature sessions evening mixer and the Tuesday social hour answered on the web site may be addressed
on adaptive designs in dose-ranging studies, and banquet. to Melvin Munsaka, publicity chair, at
meta-analysis of safety data, and qualifica- Contributed poster abstracts are being
mmunsaka@tgrd.com; Kimberly Crimin,
tion and use of biomarkers in clinical trials. accepted for the poster session to take place 2008 workshop chair, at crimink@wyeth.
The discovery/pre-clinical track, organized Tuesday over the lunch hour, with Krishna com; or Dale Umbach, local arrangements
by Ferdous Gheyas of Schering-Plough, will Padmanabhan of Wyeth serving as chair. Any chair, at
dumbach@bsu.edu. ■
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