Oral: Methodology - New Modelling Approaches

Improving priors for human mAb linear PK parameters by using half-lives from pre-clinical studies

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Obtaining a good prior for the linear PK part of new monoclonal antibodies (mAb) is essential for designing first-in-man…

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Coping with Time Scales in Disease Systems Analysis: Application to Bone Remodelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Models characterizing the dynamic behaviour of disease systems as well as the impact of therapeutic interventions can be established…

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Analysis of individual target lesions for tumor size models of drug resistance: a new methodology encompassing signal processing and machine learning

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Exploratory data analysis is a fundamental step in the model development effort. It becomes even more relevant when, for developing…

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Power assessment for hierarchical combination endpoints using joint modelling of repeated time-to-event and time-to-event models versus Finkelstein-Schoenfeld method

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Cardiovascular (CV) clinical trials often assess therapeutic benefit based on a survival event such as death. Additional reportable clinical outcomes…

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N-dimensional Likelihood Profiling: An Efficient Alternative to Bootstrap

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Bootstrap is the reference method for obtaining robust estimates of the confidence intervals (CI) of model parameters and simulation…

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Novel Hybrid Artificial Neural Network-Nonlinear Mixed Effect Model Modeling Approach for Population Data Analysis in Model-based Drug Development

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background and Objectives:  A potential limitation of current model-based drug development (MBDD) approach is that integration of the knowledge from…

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Learning from machine learning – how to deduce a mechanism-based pharmacometrics model for serum creatinine in preterm neonates from neural ordinary differential equations

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Machine learning (ML) is an emerging field in pharmacometrics (PMX) [1], providing methods for a variety of PMX tasks,…

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Modeling of delayed phenomena in PKPD by delay differential equations of lifespan type

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Delayed phenomena are common in PKPD modeling. Traditionally, transit compartments (TC) based on ordinary differential equations (ODE) are applied…

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Full Covariate Models as an Alternative to Methods Relying on Statistical Significance for Inferences about Covariate Effects: A Review of Methodology and 42 Case Studies.

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Covariate (COVT) modeling in population (POP) pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) has historically been characterized by stepwise hypotheses testing…

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Population model-enhanced reinforcement learning to enable precision dosing: case study with dosing of propofol for sedation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  Precision dosing is a key enabler for precision medicine by taking each patient and their disease’s individual characteristics into…

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