After careful consideration of the concerns around COVID-19, the BCASA and Fourth Annual Boston Pharmaceutical Symposium's Scientific Committee decided to cancel the Fourth Annual Boston Pharmaceutical Symposium. The planned agenda and other details are shown below.
We invite you all to attend the Fourth Annual Boston Pharmaceutical Symposium that will take place on Friday, May 8, 2020, on the campus of Pfizer, Building 2, Kendall Sq., 610 Main Street, Cambridge, MA. The event is organized by the Boston Chapter of the American Statistical Association in collaboration with researchers from several pharmaceutical companies in the Boston area. Financial support from Cytel, Pfizer and Takeda is gratefully acknowledged. The symposium will feature presentations by prominent researchers and industry professionals, and will include refreshments and networking opportunities. As an annual event, the Boston Pharmaceutical Symposium provides a unique venue for sharing statistical applications and research in the biotech-pharma industry, and building connections among all colleagues of the Greater Boston area engaged in the industry statistical practice. We welcome the participation from industry statisticians, academia researchers, as well as university students and any professionals interested in pharmaceutical statistical topics. Please contact Dr. Olga Vitek via o.vitek@northeastern.edu for general inquiries.
Date: Friday May 8, 2020.
Symposium location: Pfizer, Building 2, Kendall Sq, 610 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
Schedule and Confirmed Speakers:
8:45am-9:00am: Welcome address from Pfizer
9-9:30: Keynote, Sandeep Menon, SVP, Pfizer
9:30-10:00: Andrew Bean, Principal Biostatistician, Novartis
10:00-10:30: Break
10:30-11:00: Mike Hale, VP and Chief Statistical Scientist, Takeda
11:00-11:30: Charlie Cao, Senior Director, Biogen
11:30-12:00: Yannis Jemiai, Chief Scientific Officer, Cytel
12:00-1:30pm Lunch and posters
1:30-2:00: Keynote: Anne Heatherington, SVP, Head of Data Science, Takeda
2:00-2:30: Bo Jin, Executive Director, Boston Biomedical
2:30-3:00: Break
3:00-3:30: Yuan Ji, University of Chicago
3:30-4:00: Meijuan Li, VP of Biostatistics and bioinformatics, Foundation Medicine; formerly deputy director at FDA/CDRH division of Biostatistics
4:00-4:30: Geoffrey Grove, Senior Product Manager, Cytel
Scientific Committee:
Alyssa Biller, Cytel
Wenting Cheng, Biogen
Tim Clough, Novartis
Fang Yang, Novartis
Geoffrey Grove, Cytel Inc
Hrishikesh Kulkarni, Alexion
Zhonggai (Kevin) Li, Boston Biomedical
Jianchang Lin, Takeda
Jameson Luks, Cytel
Olga Vitek, Northeastern University
Huyuan Yang, Boston Biomedical
Weidong Zhang, Jounce Therapeutics
Ling Wang, Pfizer
Acknowledgements:
We thank our colleagues at Pfizer for planning to host this event. We thank Cytel and Takeda for planning to provide financial support for this event.