The 34th annual Midwest Biopharmaceutical Statistics Workshop (MBSW) will be held at Alumni Center at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana from May 23-25. On-line registration starts Monday February 14. Registration fee before May 1st is $170, after May 1st is $200. Student registration fee is $80. Students can also apply for financial support to the workshop by submitting Poster.
This year’s theme is “Beyond Statistics: Delivery is Key!”. Highlights of the workshop include a short course (separate registration fee of $75) titled "Adaptive Clinical Trial Design" by Shein-Chung Chow, Duke University School of Medicine. Past ASA President, Dr. Sastry Pantula, will deliver a special presentation on “Surfing the Data Waves” during the Tuesday night banquet.
This years's session topics include:
- Controversies in Active-Controlled Clinical Trial Designs
- Reducing Drug Attrition Rates
- Uncontrolled Confounding
- Univariate and Multivariate Process Monitoring
- Predictive Biomarkers and Oncology Trials
- Statistical Considerations in Immunogenicity Testing
- Advanced Bias Adjustment Techniques
- Statistical Mitigation of Out-of-Specification/Out-of-Trend in a Quality-by-Design World
- What Can Statisticians do to Help Others Better Understand Safety?
- New Development of Bioassay and Bioprocess Comparability Analysis
- Patient Heterogeneity in Observational Research: Response Challenge
- Delivery of Content Uniformity
Please visit the MBSW web site:
http://www.mbswonline.com/ for workshop history, session details and registration.