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Dear All,
We are pleased to provide an update on the Trends and Innovations in Clinical Trial Statistics Conference which will be held at the Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center in Durham, North Carolina on April 21-23, 2014 (the conference is organized by the Quintiles Center for Statistics in Drug Development and the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University).
We are excited to announce that Dr. Lisa LaVange (Office of Biostatistics, Office of Translational Sciences, CDER, U.S. Food and Drug Administration) has agreed to give a keynote presentation along with Dr. Dennis Gillings (Executive Chairman, Quintiles) and Prof. Anastasios (Butch) Tsiatis (Gertrude Cox Distinguished Professor, Statistics Department, North Carolina State University).
In general, the conference will be aimed at a broad audience of statisticians and scientists involved in the design and analysis of clinical trials. It will feature presentations by biostatistical experts from regulatory agencies, biopharmaceutical industry and academia on key topics in clinical trial statistics, including adaptive clinical trials, multiplicity issues, tailored therapeutics, biomarker discovery and subgroup identification, treatment and prevention of missing data, analysis of safety data, design and analysis of dose-ranging studies and statistical methods used in oncology and neuroscience clinical trials.
Pre-conference half-day courses on Missing Data, Subgroup Identification and Analysis, Personalized Medicine and Dynamic Treatment Regimens, and Advanced Designs in Oncology will be offered on April 21.
Conference program
The conference program is available at
http://www.biopharmnet.com/doc/ticts2014.pdf
For more information about the conference, please visit:
http://biopharmnet.com/wiki/TICTS_2014
Conference registration
The conference registration is now open and is limited to 350 attendees due to the conference room capacity. The registration fee includes breakfast, lunch, and afternoon snacks on April 22 and 23. To register for the conference and pre-conference short courses, please visit:
https://www.regonline.com/TICTS2014
The early bird registration ends on March 31, 2014.
Conference chairs:
Marie Davidian, William Neal Reynolds Professor, Department of Statistics, NCSU; 2013 President, American Statistical Association
Alex Dmitrienko, Executive Director, Center for Statistics in Drug Development, Quintiles
Olga Marchenko, Vice President, Head of Center for Statistics in Drug Development, Quintiles
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Olga Marchenko
VP, Innovation
Quintiles
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