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  • Volunteer for PSI Social Media Lead

    May 6, 2021, 10:06 AM
    We are looking for an enthusiastic volunteer to join the Communications Committee. The volunteer will have the opportunity to generate new ideas to promote better engagement within PSI.
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  • Would you like to join the PSI ITIT organising committee?

    Apr 12, 2021, 13:31 PM
    The PSI ITIT course has been hugely popular for people starting out in their career for many years. The participants go through a complete drug development experience from discovery to marketing, by visiting six companies over the course of a year and learning about the topics from experts in their field. Would you like to be part of the organising team for the course?
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Chair - Q1 2021

    Mar 23, 2021, 11:18 AM
    Welcome to the first Chairs update of 2021. I hope you, your family, friends and loved ones are all well. As I write this today we’re remembering 1 year to the day that the first lock-down occurred in the UK and whilst there are many things to feel sad and frustrated about, I took time this morning to reflect on all the opportunities that have arisen that may not have been the case without this year of isolation.
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  • Announcing the new Central Statistical Monitoring / Quality Tolerance Limits - Special Interest Group (CSM SIG)

    Mar 15, 2021, 17:16 PM
    The Central Statistical Monitoring / Quality Tolerance Limits - Special Interest Group (CSM SIG) has formed itself to create a forum to collaborate and discuss statistical strategies and methodology.
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  • Adapting for Success: Restructuring the PSI Board

    Jan 7, 2021, 09:48 AM
    One of the great things about the PSI Board is its ability to adapt to meet our changing needs and focus areas. We have continuously done this over the years and as 2020 drew to a close I reflected a lot on what we had achieved, what we still wanted to accomplish and what were the barriers to holding us back. You can see the PSI Business plan to find out more.
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  • PSI Prepare for 2021 Online Conference

    Dec 14, 2020, 15:20 PM
    PSI are pleased to announce that following the postponement of our next face to face conference to 2022, we will instead be running an online conference next year. The online conference will be held over the same dates as previously planned, that is, between 21 to 23 June 2021.
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Chair - Q4 2020

    Dec 11, 2020, 11:37 AM
    I hope while many of us have been locked in at home, that you’ve managed to take advantage of the activities & content the PSI community has put together! I’ve been really proud of how PSI has adapted to the challenges faced this year to remain active and relevant for our members.
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  • Volunteer for PSI Communications Committee - Hackathon Lead

    Oct 22, 2020, 09:58 AM
    Are you a PSI member looking to become more involved with PSI? The communications committee is looking for someone to lead a sub-group to organise and run several hackathon events. The goal of the hackathons is to design a visualisation tool that can help committees to engage digitally with the PSI community in the best way. A visualisation tool will help committees learn how their outreach performs and learn how to generate a more active community
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  • Volunteer for PSI Leadership Team

    Oct 8, 2020, 16:11 PM
    We are looking for a volunteer to join the Leadership Workstream, who will be responsible for leading the planning and designing on the PSI website. Please get in touch if this would be of interest to you!
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Chair - Q3 2020

    Oct 8, 2020, 16:04 PM
    Welcome to the third chairs blog of 2020! I’d like to firstly thank Nigel Howitt for handling things during May-July while I was out on maternity leave. This year is going a little differently than we had planned and last month we took the difficult decision to postpone the PSI Conference in 2021, which was to be held in Gothenburg to 2022.
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  • PSI Postpones 2021 Face-to-Face Conference

    Oct 2, 2020, 14:41 PM
    Due to the ongoing situation relating to the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic, PSI has taken the difficult decision to postpone the Annual Conference which was due to take place in Gothenburg on 20 – 23 June 2021.
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  • EFSPI - Latest Newsletter

    Oct 1, 2020, 14:50 PM
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  • Winner of 2020 pharmaceutical award announced

    Sep 18, 2020, 10:01 AM
    We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2020 Statistical excellence in the pharmaceutical industry award, presented jointly by the RSS and Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI).
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Vice-Chair - Q2 2020

    Jul 9, 2020, 15:18 PM
    Firstly, on behalf of the membership, I would like to congratulate our chair Lucy on the birth of her first child, August. Lucy will be back in office on 30th July. In the meantime, I am providing maternity cover.
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  • Regulatory Committee Update on Coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

    Apr 30, 2020, 12:51 PM
    As you all know, statisticians across the globe and across industry are actively involved in trying to understand and address the impact of COVID-19 on pharmaceutical development, including the safety of the patients in our trials and the integrity and interpretability of the data we collect.
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Chair - Q1 2020

    Apr 6, 2020, 10:51 AM
    Welcome to the first Chair's update of 2020 and even as a statistician, I would not have been able to predict we would all be in the situation we are in today, during my last blog.
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  • Statistical Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry Award

    Mar 19, 2020, 09:21 AM
    Nominations are being sought for the 2020 Award for Statistical Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry, jointly run by PSI and the Royal Statistical Society (RSS).
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  • Update from the Communications Committee

    Feb 24, 2020, 22:35 PM
    The different committees coming together to discuss strategies and provide insight on how to improve provided an excellent environment for idea sharing and acted as a brilliant way to facilitate networking between members of PSI that had not met in person before.
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  • Quarterly Update from the PSI Chair - Q4 2019

    Dec 19, 2019, 16:58 PM
    WOW what a year 2019 has been for PSI, I hope you’ve managed to take advantage of the activities & content the community has put together! Per my last blog as well as the PSI updates, I wanted to share with you a book and quote that have stuck with me this quarter.
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  • What do you get when you put 25 enthusiastic PSI members in a room for a day?

    Nov 13, 2019, 13:28 PM
    A clear PSI purpose and four strategic objectives for the next 2 years. Not bad!
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Upcoming Events

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesdays

Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.

PSI Training Course: R for SAS Users

R is quickly gaining popularity within the pharmaceutical industry due to it being a very powerful object-orientated language, and is able to produce analyses and high quality graphics. This will be a hands-on interactive course and will utilise the RStudio Cloud development environment.

PSI VisSIG Webinar: Grammar of Graphics - theory to implementation

In this talk we'll introduce the Grammar of Graphics, which allows you to compose graphs by combining independent components, and the implementation of this theory in R -- the ggplot2 package.

PSI Webinar: Oncology Ted Style Talks (with interaction)

The format of this event will include Ted Talks by all of our speakers with the opportunity for us to have a discussion together after each of the presentations.

PSI EIWG Webinar: Estimands in Oncology - How and Why

A year on after the final ICH E9 estimands addendum was published, we bring estimands to life. Members of the Estimands in Oncology special interest group will describe how the estimand framework provides a common language to describe the diversity of patient journeys and why it is important to address the right question in clinical trials.

PSI Training Course: Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs)

This course will cover the essentials of DMC set up (roles and responsibilities, DMC charter, practical considerations), as well as discussing DMC case studies and the role of DMCs in adaptive trials and during the pandemic. In addition, there will be an interactive DMC workshop.

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