Oral: Methodology - New Tools

High-dimension Mechanistic Model Building using LASSO Approaches : Application to Ebola Vaccination

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction Constructing non-linear mixed-effects models (NLMEM) can significantly enhance our understanding of biological processes. In the population approach, NLMEM combine…

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PMx-AI Bot: Changing the way of traditional Pharmacometrics work with AI Bots

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  The burgeoning influence of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing the field of pharmacometrics. This transformation is not only due…

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Improving simulations by learning the true random effects’ distribution from a population using generative machine learning

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Non-linear mixed effects (NLME) modelling aims to estimate the population-level parameters and the distribution of individual-level parameters (random effects,…

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Development and exploration of exhaustive, stepwise, and heuristic algorithms for automated population pharmacokinetic modelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  Automated population pharmacokinetic modelling tools are currently being investigated. The genetic algorithm (GA) has been proposed to address pharmacometric…

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Multivariate Exact Discrepancy : a new tool for PK/PD model evaluation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  The criteria used to validate pharmacokinetic model can be grouped into two families. The first family comprises metrics based…

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Make models great again by optimally restricting parameters to make non-identifiable models provably identifiable

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: One of the goals of statistical learning is to identify the underlying parameter values in a parametric model that…

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Computing Optimal Drug Dosing with Constraints on Model States in NONMEM

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:  Recently, we implemented the optimal drug dosing algorithm OptiDose [1] in NONMEM [2] utilizing standard commands. This allows users…

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Development of a tool for fully automatic model development (AMD)

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction/Objectives: The development of a population pharmacokinetic (PK) model is a challenging and time-consuming procedure that involves iterative manual model…

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Exploratory graphics (xGx): promoting the purposeful exploration of PKPD data

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: As pharmacometricians, we sometimes jump into complex modeling before thoroughly exploring our data. This can happen due to tight…

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SADDLE_RESET: more robust parameter estimation with a check for local practical identifiability

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: In the model building process finding the parameter values that best fit the data is a crucial step. Methods based…

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