Pre-Clinical SIG Webinars
PSI Pre-clinical Special Interest Group has a
series of regular FREE webinars dealing with statistical topics faced in
pre-clinical and related fields. The presentations run for an hour, with
approximately 45 min presentation and a Q&A session in the remaining time.
See section below for details of this webinars. Please note that
these events take place online via Zoom, and have a limited number of places
available.
📢📢📢 Upcoming - First Webinar of 2026 📢📢📢

2026 Webinars
The PSI Pre-Clinical Special Interest Group seminars for 2026 are planned as follows:
Date | Title | Presenter | |
3 February 2026 | Multi-Group Comparison of Means for Single-Factor Experiment with Small Sample Size Under Normality and Heteroscedasticity | Weiliang Qiu, Sanofi | Find out more and register here |
2025 Webinars
The PSI Pre-Clinical Special Interest Group seminars for 2025 were as follows:
Date | Title | Presenter | |
19 March 2025 | AI in Medicinal Products | Dr Liam Childs, AI working group lead - Paul Ehrlich Institute | To access video on demand, click here |
| 24 June 2025 | Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium | Rachel Heyard, Postdoctoral Fellow at Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich | To access video on demand, click here |
| 23 September 2025 | AI agents for drug discovery and development
| James Zou, Associate professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University
| To access video on demand, click here
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| 18 November 2025 | Randomization in Pre-Clinical Studies: When Evolution Theory Meets Statistics | Davit Sargsyan, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical, Spring House, Pennsylvania, USA | To access video on demand, click here |
Workshops
Workshop 2025, Verona
Registration for our workshop on 7-8th October in Verona, Italy is now open !
Places are extremely limited so please book soon if you can make it.
Our workshop will take place over two half-days, bringing together experts from industry, academia, and regulatory institutions to discuss key challenges and innovations in pre-clinical research.
This year's workshop focuses on reproducibility, translatability, and methodological advancements in pre-clinical studies, with dedicated sessions on optimal study design, virtual control groups, and statistical tools like SAS and R. The agenda includes invited presentations, interactive round table discussions, and ample opportunities for networking and collaboration, both during structured sessions and informal social events.
The event is designed to foster knowledge exchange, encourage cross-sector dialogue, and support the development of best practices in the evolving landscape of pre-clinical research.
For more details and where to register please visit the PSI website: PSI Pre-Clinical Workshop - October 2025
Workshop 2024, Paris
We held our first face-to-face workshop since 2019 in Paris this year. It was wonderful to connect with old and new faces.There was great engagement in the sessions; we all learnt something and had fun too!
Day | Title | Presenter(s) |
1 | Application of experimental design in animal research: theory and practice | Simon Bate, GSK |
| 2 | Analysing Pre-clinical experiments | Odile Coudert, Ipsen & Bernard Franq, GSK |
| | Statistics in Toxicology | Philip Jarvis, Novartis & David Lovell, University of London |
