What's New?

11/10/08:

Starting from JSM 2009, authors who present posters sponsored by Biopharmaceutical Section are qualified to compete for this award. The key aspects of the Poster Awards are:


• Topics in statistics which are applicable to biopharmaceutical research . Suitable topics include but are not limited to methodological issues in preclinical or clinical trials, epidemiology studies of drug safety (device or biological) , genetic studies predicting drug (or biological) response, laboratory and toxicological data analyses, methods for high-dimensional data from high-throughput screening, and non-linear pharmacokinetic modeling
• All JSM attendees (not restricted to members of the Biopharmaceutical Section) can participate in the competition.
• Posters will be evaluated based on the following criteria
  - Innovation
  - General applicability in pharmaceutical research
  - Appropriate example(s)
  - Effectiveness of presentation (well written, well organized, etc)
  
• The same work is considered for the Poster Awards cannot also be considered for the Students Paper Awards


Three awards with cash prizes of $1000, $500 and $300 will be given for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places, respectively.

The process for competing for the Poster Awards is as follows:



1. Submit an abstract through the Biopharmaceutical Section by the JSM abstract submission deadline. To submit an abstract through the Biopharmaceutical Section, selection "Biopharmaceutical Section" option at the online abstract submission

2. Submit your poster to Yongming Qu, Chair for the Poster Awards through email ( quyo@lilly.com) by May 1, 2009

3. Each poster will be reviewed by two reviewers and an average score will be assigned;

4. Posters with the highest scores will be the winners.

5. Ribbons will be put on the corner of the posters to indicate the winners during the poster presentation at JSM

6. Winners will be announced with certificates at the Biopharmaceutical Section Mixer at the 2009 JSM.

10/16/08:

Student paper awards ($1000 cash prize) are presented annually at the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) Biopharmaceutical Section Open Business Meeting, held Tuesday at 5:30 pm. Winners are encouraged to attend the business meeting to receive the award in person. Student research papers with statistical content applicable to the Biopharmaceutical arena are eligible for consideration. In addition to submitting a paper for judging, the student must also submit an abstract of the work as a contributed paper for JSM. The categories for scoring are clarity, contribution to statistics, and biopharmaceutical applicability. Suitable topics include but are not limited to methodological issues in preclinical or clinical trials, epidemiology studies of drug (or device or biological) safety, genetic studies predicting drug (or biological) response, laboratory and toxicological data analyses, methods for high-dimensional data from high-throughput screening, and non-linear pharmacokinetic modeling.

The following guidelines will help in making the judging process fair and unbiased:


• Submissions should be labeled as a "student paper submission" and sent to Matilde Sanchez. Program Chair for the Biopharmaceutical Section, MSanchez@arenapharm.com
• The work must also be submitted as a contributed paper for presentation at JSM. Requirements for contributed paper submission (Dec 1, 2008 - Feb 2, 2009 at 3pm ET) must be followed in addition to those for the student paper submission.
• Submissions of student papers for consideration must be received electronically in WORD or in .pdf format. Two versions should be submitted as follows: 1) complete paper and 2) "blinded" paper. The submission email should contain the name, school, and contact information of the student.
• In the "blinded" version of the paper the student's name and affiliation/school should NOT appear, names for references should not be included in the text (numbers for references should be used in text, names should appear on reference page only). References that would unblind a reviewer to the student's name or the student's advisor/collaborator should be removed and replaced with the text "Reference removed."
• The length of the student paper should not exceed 15 pages of double-spaced type of text with no more than 5 additional pages of appendices (20 pages maximum). Please consider a manuscript style for the paper to facilitate publication in the proceedings for JSM or in another appropriate journal.
• Deadline for student paper submissions is March 31, 2009.
• Papers must be submitted no later than 1 year after graduation and reflect research completed while the author was a student.

04/14/08:

• Updated 'Executive Committee' Section

08/10/07:

• Student Paper Award Winner : Wentao Feng

06/04/07:

• Summer 2007 (br_sum07.pdf) issue of the Biopharmaceutical Report has been issued and is available

05/14/07:

• Added Alex Dmitrienko as "Chair of Distance Training" to the Section Appointments

04/04/07:

• Updated the Member List

02/01/07:

• Executive Commitee Section has been updated

12/13/06:

• Executive Commitee Section has been updated
• ENAR 2007 Spring Meeting, March 11-14, 2007, Atlanta Georgia
• Updated the Student Paper Section

11/10/06:

• The Membership list has been updated

11/03/06:

• The Fall 2006 issue of the Biopharmaceutical Report is available

10/26/06:

• The ASA Biopharmaceutical Section executive committee will have its annual transition meeting on Friday, Nov 17, at ASA headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, with telephone dial-in available to those unable to travel to this meeting.

10/06/06:

• Updated ASA Biopharm Section's Corporate Sponsorship List