This meeting aims to bring together statisticians from the pharmaceutical industry and academia to hear about recent advances in statistical methods for quantitative decision-making in drug development.

The paper to be presented appeared earlier this year in Pharmaceutical Statistics (Weber, Hemmings, Koch, 17, 329-341) and is motivated by the opportunities and challenges for using Bayesian methods with informative priors to support drug development and licencing when only a small pool of patients is available, as in the case of rare diseases and paediatric population.

There is a simple equation for access in the UK: Access = Reimbursement + Uptake. Yet, whilst a simple and logical approach, each component is challenging to achieve. This webinar focuses on the National Reimbursement side: the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - who they are, what is involved in the Health Technology Appraisal (HTA) assessment, how they make decisions.

The draft ICH E9 addendum on estimands and sensitivity analysis was released back in July 2017 and (more than 1000) comments are back. All stakeholders are gaining the necessary experience and familiarity with estimands along with the associated challenges and methodologies. The language and thinking behind causal inference is well suited to this area.

Our annual PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event, will be held at the De Montfort University in Leicester on Wednesday 20th February 2019.

This intensive course will cover all basic and advanced aspects of synthesis of evidence from studies comparing competing treatments for the same health condition. By the end of this course participants will have an understanding of the role and potential of network meta-analysis, the principles, steps and statistical methods involved; the biases that can distort indirect comparisons and network meta-analysis.

PSI are pleased to announce that the countdown to the 2019 Conference has begun! The theme for the conference is “Data Driven Decision Making in Medical Research”. The 2019 PSI Conference will take place at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre (QEII), London, from 2nd to 5th June 2019.

The ITIT course will take 25 delegates new to the industry on a complete drug development experience from discovery to marketing. They will visit 6 companies from October 2019 to July 2020 to learn about 6 topics from experts in their field. The ITIT course will have 3 sessions in continental Europe and 3 sessions in the UK. It promises to be a truly memorable course.