About the Conference

PSI 2024 Conference

The PSI 2024 Conference will be held from Sunday 16th to Wednesday 19th June 2024 as a face to face conference at Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

PSI was founded in 1977 and members now span statisticians and other quantitative scientists with an interest in statistics working in all areas of drug development and healthcare, including research, pre-clinical, production, quality control, health technology, marketing, market research, academic statisticians and consultants. The annual PSI Conference attracts 350 to 450 quantitative scientists from industry, academia and regulatory/HTA agencies from the UK, Europe and beyond.

The Conference program extends over 3 days and from Monday to Wednesday includes a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, and a poster session. On the Sunday prior to the conference there are pre-conference course(s). Registration includes multiple social events, including a welcome reception on Sunday evening, a networking event on Monday and, last but not least, the conference gala dinner on the Tuesday night. In addition, there are plenty of opportunities to interact with other delegates and sponsors at breaks.

The PSI annual general meeting takes place during the conference.

Who should attend?

As with previous PSI annual conferences, there will be talks on a wide range of statistical topics such as master protocols, HTA, and estimands as well as opportunities to support professional development via non-technical topics. The scientific program promises to be of interest to anyone interested in applying statistics and data science in drug development and healthcare whether they are from industry, academia or regulatory/HTA agencies.

For career young statisticians (approximately less than 5 years working in the pharmaceutical industry) there are dedicated events to allow you to get to know your peers. In addition, you have the option to present in a dedicated contributed session. This is a great opportunity to gain experience in presenting in a friendly environment and to network with those of similar experience.

The 2023 Conference was a huge success. You can view some of our conference photo highlights in the gallery below. The Video On Demand page will be updated by the end of July with all session recordings for you to watch any sessions you missed or that you want to revisit. Thank you to all our delegates, sponsors, poster presenters and speakers for their attendance, and a huge thank you to the Scientific Committee for their hard work in designing such a wonderful programme.

PSI VisSIG Wonderful Wednesday Webinar Series (2023)

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 Webinar: Application of Bayesian Methods in Confirmatory Trials

This webinar consists of three presentations providing examples of where Bayesian methods have been used within confirmatory settings.

PSI Launch & Lifecycle SIG Webinar: Do you want to stay single? Considerations on single arm trials in the post-regulatory space

We will present the most frequently asked questions in the post-marketing space, the reasons why SATs are not able to address these questions, and how statisticians might reasonably influence decision makers to consider alternatives.

PSI Training Course: Missing Data

This course will introduce participants to the key concepts and methods relevant for analysing clinical trials when some data are missing.

PSI Scientific Meeting: Patient-focused drug development

The meeting will consider the importance of patient-centric input into regulatory and HTA decision-making discussing the latest developments in the field and presenting industry examples.

PSI Book Club

The next book we are reading is "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey. This is a classic in the personal development genre.

PSI Pre-Clinical SIG Webinar: Adjusting Experimental & Statistical Approaches throughout Preclinical development pathways

PD Dr. Tölch will present a framework to foster efficient evidence generation in preclinical experiments and will illustrate the proposed approach using examples from various projects. This will be followed by Q&A.

PSI Vaccine SIG Webinar: A Vaccine Statistician’s Journey in Designing and Analyzing Monoclonal Antibody Studies

Our speaker will share her experience in extending/innovating methodology and concepts developed in vaccine statistics to the analyses of pre-efficacy and efficacy trials of monoclonal antibodies.

PSI Careers - MEDMathS: Medicine Empowered by Data, Maths and Statistics

A careers talk about medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing new medicines

PSI Journal Club: Bayesian Approaches in Efficacy and Safety

Please join us to hear Kristian Brock and Ying Yuan present their recent work for our next Journal Club webinar, as sponsored by Wiley.

PSI Training Course: Sample Sizing for Clinical Trials

This course describes calculations for sample size estimation in the design of clinical trials. It will highlight how the objectives of a clinical trial will impact on sample size calculations. The course is a practical course and all methods will be illustrated with examples and case studies.

PSI Biomarkers SIG Webinar: A promising adaptive biomarker-based design strategy for early phase and machine learning as an enabler of precision medicine!

In this webinar, you will get to know how an innovative adaptive design can increase the probability of success of your early phase clinical trial as well as hear the latest and greatest of the Machine Learning workstream from the Biomarkers ESIG.

PSI Scientific Meeting: Master Protocols - Industry, Academic, and Regulatory Perspectives

This one-day event will establish a forum to engage with colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds who are actively working on effective master protocol design, analysis, and execution.

PSI Medical Statistics Careers Event

This event is aimed at students with an interest in the field of Medical Statistics, for example within pharmaceuticals, healthcare and/or medical research.

PSI Career Young Virtual Meet (Q4 2023)

This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.

PSI Webinar(s): Causal inference in Clinical Trials

Over the course of two sessions, a panel of 8 esteemed speakers will give an introduction to the topic, followed by a presentation of case studies & interactive panel discussion.