Steven Novick and John Kolassa, Conference Co-Chairs
One-hundred-thirty attendees converged on the Rutgers University campus in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to participate in the 2019 Nonclinical Biostatistics Conference June 17–19. Held for the sixth time, the biennial conference provided a venue for the presentation and discussion of scientific and statistical issues relevant to nonclinical biostatistics. Jointly organized by the ASA Biopharmaceutical Section and the Rutgers University Department of Statistics, the program featured 29 invited and contributed talks, 26 poster presenters, special sessions for graduate students, and keynote addresses delivered by ASA President Karen Kafadar and José Pinheiro, global head of statistical modeling and methodology at Janssen.
To kick off the conference, the following short courses were offered:
- An R Shiny Tutorial With Nonclinical Applications
Instructors: Max Kuhn and Phil Bowsher, RStudio - Getting It Right: Compositional Analysis of Biological Measurements
Instructors: Anthony Lonardo, Lonardo StatReg Associates, and Juan José Egozcue and Maribel Ortego, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
The Best Nonclinical Biostatistics Paper Award was presented to Lingmin Zeng, Steven Novick, Binbing Yu, and Harry Yang for their 2019 Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research paper, “General Framework for Equivalence Testing Over a Range of Linear Outcomes With CMC Applications.”
Two graduate students walked away with best poster awards, with first prize ($250) going to Perceval Sondag and second prize ($150) going to Yi Hua.
All the 2019 NCB conference oral presentations and posters are available electronically.
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