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Session Overview | |
Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Biozentrum, 302 seats |
Date: Sunday, 24/Aug/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Targeted Learning Oliver Dukes1, Stijn Vansteelandt1, Shaun Seaman2 1: Ghent University, Belgium; 2: University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Targeted Learning Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
1:30pm - 3:00pm |
Targeted Learning Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
3:30pm - 5:00pm |
Targeted Learning Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
Date: Monday, 25/Aug/2025 | |
9:00am - 9:30am |
Formal opening Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
9:30am - 10:45am |
Confidence distributions: new tools to design, adapt and analyse clinical trials Ian Marschner University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
When worlds collide: Common methodological themes in meta-analysis, causal inference, and hybrid trial design Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Combining information from multiple and diverse sources to answer causal questions Doubly robust augmented entropy balancing for externally controlled clinical trials and indirect treatment comparisons Meta-analytic Framework Using Individual Patient Data: A Case Study from Alopecia Arrieta |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
AI-driven multi-omics data integration Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Generative AI for Unlocking the Complexity of Cells Machine Learning for Multi-Omics Integration: Advancing Rare Disease Diagnostics in Pediatric Acute Care Correspondence problems in multi-omic data |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Prediction modelling meets causal inference for clinical decision making Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Clinical applications of predictions under interventions Dynamic Prediction of Survival Benefit to Inform Liver Transplant Decisions in Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients From prediction to treatment decision: aligning development, evaluation and monitoring |
Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025 | |
9:15am - 10:45am |
Mathematical and Statistical Modelling in the Life Sciences: Seeking causal explanations Location: Biozentrum U1.111 In silico simulations of cancer-immune interactions to aid clinical trial design and execution Evolutionary dynamics of cancer progression and response to treatment Using DAGs and dynamical simulations to explore and understand causal links |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
Optimizing efficiency in adaptive trial designs Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Title TBD Optimizing Treatment Allocation in Platform Trials: A Need for New Rules? Confirmatory adaptive enrichment designs with a continuous biomarker |
Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025 | |
9:00am - 10:30am |
Cracking causal questions: Estimands for reliable and clinically relevant evidence Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Chasing Shadows: How Implausible Assumptions Skew Our Understanding of Causal Estimands Paving the ground for breakthrough innovations in Alzheimer’s Disease drug development with the estimand framework and causal inference Estimating causal overall survival estimands in the presence of treatment switching using multi-state models |
11:00am - 12:15pm |
Statistical and causal perspectives on machine learning in estimating individualized treatment strategies Erica E. M. Moodle Biostatistics, McGill University, Canada Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
12:15pm - 1:30pm |
ISCB Annual General Meeting Location: Biozentrum U1.111 |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Improving replicability in clinical biostatistics Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Questionable Research Practices - From Small Errors to Research Misconduct Improving the replicability of applied and methodological research Method benchmarking in computational biology - current state and future perspectives Software sensitivity analysis in medical and methodological research |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Generative AI in clinical research and drug development (BBS invited session) Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Generative Scientific Machine Learning for Advancement of Pharmacokinetic Modeling (Generative) AI in medicine: Where does statistics come into play? Do Single-Cell Transformers Understand Gene Regulation? A Cautionary Benchmark |
Date: Thursday, 28/Aug/2025 | |
9:15am - 10:45am |
Mini-Symposium 1: Causal Inference for Improved Clinical Collaborations: A Practicum Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Introduction to Causal Inference Case Study Practicum |
11:30am - 1:00pm |
Mini-Symposium 1: Causal Inference for Improved Clinical Collaborations: A Practicum Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Case Study Overviews Panel Discussion |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Mini-Symposium 4: Enhancing Cancer Clinical Trials with Patient-Reported Outcomes: Insights from SISAQOL-IMI Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Session 1: Introduction Session 2: Randomised Clinical Trials Session 3: Single Arm Trials Session 4: Results Communication and Visualization Session 5: PRO Score Interpretation Thresholds Panel discussion |
4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Mini-Symposium 4: Enhancing Cancer Clinical Trials with Patient-Reported Outcomes: Insights from SISAQOL-IMI Location: Biozentrum U1.111 Session 1: Introduction Session 2: Randomised Clinical Trials Session 3: Single Arm Trials Session 4: Results Communication and Visualization Session 5: PRO Score Interpretation Thresholds Panel discussion |
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