Oral: Methodology - New Modelling Approaches

Correction of the likelihood function as an alternative for imputing missing covariates

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Missing covariates in a population PKPD model are typically imputed in order to obtain a full data set for…

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Physiologically Structured Population Model of Intracellular Hepatitis C Virus Dynamics

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: To develop a physiologically structured population model capable of describing intracellular dynamics of viral RNA and its integration with…

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Incorporating clinical utility and Pharmacokinetics (PK)/Pharmacodynamics (PD) in clinical development of oncology drug candidate with a Bayesian decision analysis perspective in the context of OPTIMUS initiative

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: In oncology, poor dose optimization can have negative consequences for patients,most commonly because of toxicity, including poor quality of life,…

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Penalized regression implementation within the SAEM algorithm to advance high-throughput personalized drug therapy

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Context: In a previous study, we have shown that penalized regression approaches (such as Lasso) in combination with a model-based…

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Covariate Modelling in Aggregate Data Meta Analysis: A Simulation Study Evaluating Performance of Model Linearization

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  This simulation study evaluated a proposed method based on second order Taylor series approximation for fitting covariate models to…

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A Visual Predictive Check for the Evaluation of the Hazard Function in Time-to-Event Analyses

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: To present methods for performing visual predictive checks (VPCs) specifically for evaluating the hazard function while modeling time-to-event (TTE)…

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Structural identifiability of parallel pharmacokinetic experiments as constrained systems

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Pharmacokinetic analysis using compartmental models can be restricted with respect to the estimation of parameter values. This is because…

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How to analyse multiple ordinal scores in a clinical trial? Multivariate vs. univariate analysis.

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Longitudinal measurements of ordinal responses are very frequent in clinical trials to assess drug efficacy and side effects. Usually,…

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Time-varying covariates, mediation analysis and overadjustment bias in PK/PD modelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modelling benefits from the inclusion of covariates to enhance predictive capabilities and explain variability [1]. However, the inclusion…

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Informative Dropout and Visual Predictive Check of Exposure-Response Modeling of Ordered Categorical Data

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Physician's Global Assessment (PGA) score is a 6-point measure of psoriasis severity (0=cleared and 5=severe). PGA scores were collected…

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