Oral: Methodology - New Modelling Approaches

A general pharmacodynamic interaction model based on the Bliss Independence criterion

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Quantification of pharmacodynamic (PD) drug interactions is challenging. When reviewing current approaches, published PD interaction models [1] display several…

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A liver model for chemoprotection against malaria

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: Chemoprotective drugs are developed to protect people from being infected by plasmodium, and in particular by P. falciparum, the…

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Identifiability of Population Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic Models

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: Mathematical models are routinely used in clinical pharmacology to study the time course of concentration and effect of a…

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Handling frequent observations of composite scores: Application to PROs in COPD

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an inflammatory disease of the lung, characterised by not-fully reversible airflow obstruction that…

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Simplification of multi-scale systems models for data-driven analyses: what has progressed in these 5 years?

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Bridging multi-scale systems models and pharmacometrics has resulted in models that are highly complex and often not amenable to further…

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Beyond disease progression – Item response theory modelling to gain structural insights into disease facets underlying clinical score assessments

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Diseases are commonly multifactorial, complicating the choice of appropriate diagnostic and clinical endpoints. Clinical scores, often summarised to composite…

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Relationship between the dose of therapeutic antibodies and the inhibition of cytoplasmic and nuclear growth factor signalling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Inhibition of growth factor signalling is a promising strategy in cancer treatment because of the importance of such signals…

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Modelling of classified individual tumor lesions in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients using delay differential equations.

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Standard practice in pharmacometrics applied to oncology since publication of the Claret’s paper [1] has been to model the relationship…

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A strategy for residual error modeling incorporating both scedasticity of variance and distribution shape

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Implement a new error modeling strategy including dynamic transform both sides [1,2] with dynamic scedasticity (dTBS) and t-distributed residuals…

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Model-based analyses for pivotal decisions, with an application to equivalence testing for biosimilars

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: In a drug development context, non-linear mixed effects models (NLME) are routinely used for exploratory analyses. These methods are…

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