PRE CONFERENCE COURSES: 27 AUGUST 2023 

Separate fees apply for all pre-conference courses. You can book these at the time of booking your delegate place. See the registration page for more details on the cost.

Evaluation of prediction models: from AUC to calibration and decision curve analysis (half-day)

Teachers:

• Ben van Calster, Department of Development and Regeneration & EPI-Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven; Dept of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center.
• Andrew Vickers, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York
• Ewout Steyerberg, Leiden University

Estimands and analyses of longitudinal continuous outcomes in clinical trials (half-day)

Teachers:

• Marcel Wolbers, Data & Statistical Sciences Department, Pharma Development, Roche, Basel
• Alessandro Noci, Data & Statistical Sciences Department, Pharma Development, Roche, Basel

Analysis of genomic data: R Bioconductor (half day)

Teacher:

• Davide Risso, University of Padua 

Beyond classical epidemiological designs (full day)

Teachers:

• Marie Reilly, Karolinska Institutet
• Paola Rebora, University of Milano-Bicocca

Pseudo observations in survival analysis (full day)

Teachers:

• Per Kragh Andersen, Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen
• Henrik Ravn, Biostatistics, Novo Nordisk A/S, DenmarkLa
  

   

INVITED SESSION: 28-30 AUGUST 2023

Recurrent events and their use in medical studies

• Mouna Akacha, Statistical Methods & Consulting Group, Novartis Pharma AG.
• Giuliana Cortese, Department of Statistical Sciences, Padua University
• Per Kragh Andersen, Department of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.

Evaluation of predictive algorithms and models: uncertainty and impact on medical care

• Ben van Calster, Department of Development and Regeneration & EPI-Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven; Dept of Biomedical Data Sciences, Leiden University Medical Center.

• Andrew Vickers, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York

• Laure Wynants, Department of Epidemiology, CAPHRI Care and Public Health Research Institute, Maastricht University; Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven.

Advances on causal inference in longitudinal studies

• Mireille Schnitzer, University of Montreal
• Eric Tchegen Tchegen, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
• Ruth Keogh, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

High-dimensional inference in biostatistics

• Veera Baladandayuthapani, University of Michigan Bayesian
• Manuela Zucknick, University of Oslo
• Paul Kirk, Cambridge University

Innovative designs for dose optimization studies

• Alex Kaizer, Department of Biostatistics and Informatics, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Ruitao Lin, Department of Biostatistics, MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Hakim-Moulay Dehbi, Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit, University College London

Marginal versus conditional effects in clinical trials

• David Benkeser, Emory University

• Michael Rosenblum, Johns Hopkins University
• Stephen Senn, UK
• Ewout Steyerberg, Leiden University

Quantification of safety signals in clinical trials: Estimand, estimation, and how would good look like in ten years?

• Kaspar Rufibach, Roche
• Anja Loos, Merck
• Laura Antolini, Università di Milano-Bicocca
• Kit Roes, Radboud MC and EMA Methodology WG

Vaccination programmes: post-implementation assessment of protection, benefits and risks

• Heather Whitaker, Health Security Agency, UK
• Susan Hahne, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands
• Andrea Callegaro. GSK Vaccines, Belgiu

MINI-SYMPOSIA: 31 AUGUST 2023

There are 2 mini-symposia taking place on the 31th August:

Mini-symposium 1: Ten years STRATOS initiative – brief summary of progress and plans for the future (full day)

Coordinators:

Willi Sauerbrei, Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

wfs@imbi.uni-freiburg.de

Federico Ambrogi, Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

federico.ambrogi@unimi.it

Mini-symposium 2: Novel approaches to complex data and predictive modeling in healthcare research (half-day)

Coordinators:

Emanuele DiAngelantonio, Health Data Science Center, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy

emanuele.diangelantonio@fht.org

Francesca Ieva, Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy.

francesca.ieva@polimi.it

ECB DAY: 31 AUGUST 2023

We welcome all students and researchers starting their journey in Biostatistics to join the Early Career Biostatisticians’ (ECB) Day that will take place on Thursday, 31 August.

The aim of the day is to share personal experiences relating to biostatistical research and discuss how to deal with the potential pitfalls of the research process to become better researchers in the process.

Whether you are just about to graduate or have already experience working as a researcher or biostatistical consultant, you will benefit from meeting your peers, exchanging your thoughts and ideas, and getting to know more about how to shape a career in biostatistics.

Thus, this day will complement the main conference which mainly focuses on research results.

Abstract submission

We invite all Early Career Biostatisticians (i.e., those with at most 10 years’ experience after a BSc degree) to submit an abstract for an oral presentation during the ECB Day.

The contributed talks should focus on personal experience and not on specific research findings. Please, bear in mind that all experiences are worth sharing, because everyone started small and your experiences might help one of your peers.

You can submit by MARCH 10 on the on-line submission platform:

http://iscb2023.onlinecongress.it/ISCB44/scientific selecting “Early Career Biostatisticians’ (ECB)- 31 Aug 2023” from the Presentation type drop-down menu.

The closing date for applications is the same as the general abstract deadline (March 31, 2023).

If the latter is extended the ECB deadline is automatically extended to the same date.

For additional enquiries, feel free to contact us at ECB@iscb.info.

Registration

You can register for the ECB Day through the main conference registration system (www.iscb2023.promoest.com).

Participation will be free of charge for delegates also attending the main conference, and will be 35 EUR for ECBs attending the day only.

We look forward to meeting you in Milan!