Oral Presentation: Methodology

Application of the optimal design approach to improve therapeutic drug monitoring for cyclosporine

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Previously an intensive sampling schedule spread over 2 days was used to identify the pre-transplantation oral (PO) and intravenous…

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Sequential versus simultaneous optimal experimental design on dose and sample times

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: To increase the efficiency of trials in drug development, optimal experimental design has been used to optimize the sampling…

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Analysis Approaches Handling Both Symptomatic Severity and Frequency

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background Graded events analyses are often accompanied with a loss of information by not handling the true nature of the…

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Evaluating the IPPSE method for PKPD analysis

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: To develop PKPD models based on previously determined individual PK parameter (IPP) estimates is a common alternative to the simultaneous…

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Model-based tests to detect gene effect in pharmacokinetic studies

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction Pharmacogenetics studies the relationship between the interindividual variability and variations in DNA sequence of proteins involved in mechanisms of…

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Extending the Latent Variable Model to Non-Independent Longitudinal Dichotomous Response Data

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: Sheiner and Sheiner et. al. brought attention to generalized nonlinear mixed effects modeling of ordered categorical data, and the…

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Estimating Transformations for Population Models of Continuous, Closed Interval Data

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: The Stanford Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) is a self reported tool used in rheumatoid diseases.  These clinical…

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A new exact test to globally assess a population PK and/or PD model

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Standardised predictions errors are provided by most software (WRES in NONMEM; PWRES in MONOLIX) and are widely used as…

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A flexible approach to modeling variable absorption in the context of repeated dosing: illustrated with rifampicin

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction and Objectives: A flexible transit compartment absorption model (TCAM), in which a delay in the onset of absorption and…

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A new SAEM algorithm for ordered-categorical and count data models: implementation and evaluation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Analysis of categorical and count data from clinical trials using mixed effect analysis has recently become the method of…

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