updated 3 February 2012

Upcoming Events

Upcoming Vaccines Sessions at Statistical and Other Conferences

Mini Symposium on Statistics in Vaccines Research at 33rd Annual Conference of the ISCB, Bergen, Norway, August 23, 2012

Vaccine Session at FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop, Washington DC, September 12 - 14, 2012

Upcoming Vaccines Sessions at Statistical and Other Conferences

April 1 - 4, 2012         The 2012 ENAR Spring Meeting of the International Biometric Society will be held April 1 – 4, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.  The preliminary program includes one vaccine session entitled “Adaptive Design in Vaccine Trials,” with listed speakers, Peter Gilbert, Ivan Chan, Ghideon Ghebregiorgis, and Dean Follmann.  http://www.enar.org/meetings.cfm

July 9 - 25, 2012        The 2012 Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) will tentatively be held July 9 – 25, 2012 in the South Campus Center of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.  Module 6, entitled “Design and Analysis of Vaccine Clinical Trials,” will be taught by Stephanie Klopfer and Devan Mehrotra.  Module 10, entitled “Evaluating Immune Correlates of Protection and Vaccine Effects on Pathogen Sequences” will be taught by Paul T. Edlefsen and Peter Gilbert.  http://depts.washington.edu/sismid/index.html

July 28 - Aug. 2, 2012 The 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings will be held July 28 - August 2, 2012, at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, California.  The preliminary online program should be available in March/April 2012. General information is available at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2012/ 

Aug. 19 - 23, 2012      The 33nd Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) will be held August 19 - 23, 2012 in Bergen, Norway in the well-known conference and concert hall Grieghallen, Edvard Griegs Plass 1, 5015 Bergen, Norge.  Preliminary Details of Special Mini-Symposium Day on Vaccines below.

Sept. 12 - 14, 2012     FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop will be held September 12 - 14, 2012 at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington DC, United States. There will be one vaccine sessions at this year’s workshop. See below for preliminary session details. General information is posted when available at http://www.amstat.org/meetings/fdaworkshop

Mini Symposium on Statistics in Vaccines Research at 33rd Annual Conference of the ISCB, Bergen, Norway, August 19 - 23, 2012

The ISCB Vaccines sub-committee has organized a Mini-Symposium on “Novel Statistical Approaches Used in Post-marketing Safety Surveillance Systems – A Global Perspective” to be held on August 23^rd at the annual conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (ISCB) in Bergen, Norway at the conference and concert hall Grieghallen.  The key characteristics of several newly emerging electronic safety surveillance systems will be described, including standard surveillance aims, data, organizations involved, and statistical methods and tools employed.  From a global perspective, the design and analysis challenges that arise when applying the various statistical approaches will be discussed with several examples from monitoring the safety of vaccines.  The organizers of the mini-symposium are sub‑committee members Jennifer Nelson and Allen Izu. Invited speakers and their topics so far include: Catherine Quantin (with Paddy Farrington and Pascale Tubert) on post-licensure safety surveillance in the U.K. and Jennifer Nelson on methods and challenges for sequential safety monitoring in U.S. surveillance systems.

For updated information on the annual conference and the Vaccines mini-symposium please visit: http://www.iscb2012.info.

Vaccine Session at FDA/Industry Statistics Workshop, Washington DC, September 12 - 14, 2012

Accepted session:  Recent Advances in the Statistics of Vaccines Research. Session co-chairs:  Mridul Chowdhury (FDA) and Anthony Homer (Sanofi Pasteur); session co-organizers: John Jezorwski (Sanofi Pasteur) and Barbara Krasnicka (FDA).  The session will combine recent technical research among industry statisticians on methods relevant to regulatory approval of new vaccines with broader topics from recent publications by academic statisticians on the statistics of vaccines research. Day, Date, Time TBD.   (Presenters and topics will be included in the next issue of the newsletter.)

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A useful calendar of statistical conferences is managed by the International Statistical Institute at http://isi.cbs.nl/calendar.htm

If you are organizing or know of a vaccines or infectious disease session or presentation at an upcoming statistics conference, or a statistics session at a vaccines or infectious disease conference, please email details to conferences@iscb-vaccines.info so it may be included in future issues of the newsletter and on the sub-committee’s website.