Oral: Methodology - New Modelling Approaches

The Neural Mixed Effects algorithm: leveraging machine learning for pharmacokinetic modelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: There is much interest in the application of machine learning (ML) algorithms for the personalisation of treatment. Nonlinear mixed-effects…

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Copula modeling for realistic virtual patient covariate simulation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Simulation of virtual patients is a commonly applied procedure in pharmacometrics for optimizing dosing regimens and clinical trial simulation. For…

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Use of item-based non-linear mixed effects model to improve confidence in Phase III clinical trial decision-making

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: The proportion of failed trials due to lack of efficacy is strikingly greater in Phase III clinical drug development…

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Deep Learning for PK/PD and Disease Progression Time-Course Predictions using Neural-ODE

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: The modeling of pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) and disease progression are currently performed using population approaches. However, the recent development of…

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A novel score test-based method for efficient covariate selection in population pharmacokinetic analysis

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Originally proposed Wald’s approximation method (WAM) [1], least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) [2] and stepwise covariate method…

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A systematic framework for the incorporation of preclinical species data into physiologically-based pharmacokinetic models using a middle-out approach to improve the translation of drug distribution in humans

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Optimization of parameters in complex models, such as the whole-body physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model by model fitting to observed…

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A cohesive model framework of receptor pharmacology: beyond the Emax model

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: Just over 150 years ago, the Norwegian mathematician Cato Guldberg and the chemist Peter Waage, propounded the law of…

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Model Averaging in viral dynamic models

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Nonlinear mixed effect models (NLMEM) are now becoming a central tool in viral dynamic models to estimate parameters of viral…

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A partial differential equation approach to inhalation PBPK modelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Inhalation pharmacokinetics (PK) is known to be vastly complex due to the spatial heterogeneity in lung physiology and the…

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Joint modeling of overall survival and tumor size dynamics in non-small cell lung cancer: Clinical trial simulations and validation of predictions at study and subject levels

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Projecting survival estimates from early- to late-phase studies is a critical step in anti-cancer drug development. Surrogate endpoints such as…

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