Biopharmaceutical
Graybill Focuses on Statistical Applications
in Pharmaceutical Industry for First Time
Submissions for student paper award wanted
Brian Wiens, Hari Iyer, and Naitee Ting
and Janet Wittes. Featured speakers were ies predicting drug (or biological) response,
Robb Muirhead, Sue-Jane Wang, Dallas laboratory and toxicological data analyses,
Johnson, and Karen Kafadar. The speakers methods for high-dimensional data from
were followed by sessions on longitudinal high-throughput screening, and nonlinear
data and nonclinical statistics and multiple pharmacokinetic modeling.
comparisons, as well as a panel discussion on The following guidelines will help make
education of clinical trial statisticians. The the judging process fair:
Thursday evening banquet featured Zelen as
Submissions should be labeled as a
keynote speaker.
“student paper submission” and sent
Janet Wittes of Statistics Collaborative makes a
More than 100 people attended the
to Matilde Sanchez, program chair
point during a panel discussion.
conference. Many were statisticians who
for the Biopharmaceutical Section, at
work in the pharmaceutical industry in the
MSanchez@arenapharm.com.
G
raybill Conference VII was held United States (including many graduates
June 11–13 in Fort Collins, of the Statistics Department of Colorado The work must also be submitted as a
Colorado. The conference is held State), and they were joined by several stu- contributed paper for presentation at
annually with a different theme each year.
dents and academic faculty members. The
JSM. Requirements for contributed
The 2008 conference, sponsored by the
conference was financially supported by
paper submission (December 1, 2008–
ASA and the Biopharmaceutical Section,
the Biopharmaceutical Section of the ASA,
February 2, 2009, at 3 p.m. EST) must
was the first to focus on statistical applica-
Gilead Sciences, Eisai Medical Research,
be followed in addition to those for the
tions in the pharmaceutical industry.
Amarex Clinical Research, Amgen, and
student paper submission.
The conference was administered by the
Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America.
Department of Statistics of Colorado State
Submissions must be received electroni-
Planning is already under way for the next
University and named in honor of longtime
cally in Microsoft Word or PDF format.
Graybill Conference, planned for June 2009
professor Franklin A. Graybill. Graybill
in Fort Collins, Colorado. Conference chair To facilitate blinding, the student’s
taught at Colorado State from 1961 until
Richard Davis is planning the conference name should appear on the first page
his retirement in 1997, advising the first
with a focus on extreme value analysis. Those only, and names for references should
PhD student at the university in the math-
interested in attending can check for updates not be included in the text (numbers
ematical sciences and eventually founding
at
www.stat.colostate.edu/graybillconference. for references used in text, names
the Statistics Department.
on reference page only). References,
Conference cochairs were Hari Iyer and
Student Paper Award 2009
which would unblind a reviewer to
Naitee Ting, who were assisted by program
committee members Fred Balch, Scott
Submission Guidelines
the student’s name or the student’s
advisor/collaborator will be removed
Evans, Jim Whitmore, and Brian Wiens. Jim
Student paper awards ($1,000 prize) are pre-
for the review.
zumBrunnen and Courtney Sykes handled
sented annually at the Joint Statistical Meetings
local arrangements, and several CSU gradu-
Biopharmaceutical Section Open Business The length of the student paper
ate students helped with logistics, schedul-
Meeting. Winners are encouraged to attend should not exceed 15 pages of double-
ing, and errands.
the business meeting to receive the award in spaced type, with no more than five
The 2008 conference started with short
person. Student research papers with statistical additional pages of appendices (20
courses “Hot Topics in Clinical Trials,” taught
content applicable to the biopharmaceutical pages maximum).
by Evans, LJ Wei, Lingling Li, and Zelen,
arena are eligible for consideration.
Papers must be submitted no later
and “Statistical Graphics for Clinical Data
In addition to submitting a paper for judg-
than one year after graduation and
Analysis,” taught by Michael O’Connell and
ing, the student must submit an abstract of
reflect research completed while the
Matt Austin. Eight posters were presented at
the work as a contributed paper for JSM. The
author was a student.
the opening mixer Wednesday evening.
categories for scoring are clarity, contribution
Four sessions were held Thursday and
to statistics, and biopharmaceutical applica- Consider a manuscript style for the paper
Friday, each including a keynote speaker,
bility. Suitable topics include, but are not lim- that will facilitate publication in the JSM
featured speaker, and series of talks on a
ited to, methodological issues in preclinical or Proceedings or appropriate journal. The
related topic. The four keynote speakers were
clinical trials, epidemiology studies of drug deadline for student paper submissions is
Robert O’Neill, Christy Chuang-Stein, Wei,
(or device or biological) safety, genetic stud- March 31, 2009. n
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