Poster: Methodology - New Modelling Approaches

An Integrated R-Based Framework for Model Development in Health Economics

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: Health economic decisions rely on the evaluation of complex systems. The complexity demonstrates itself in several aspects: (1) each…

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Crossing borders from mechanistic QSP to clinical population modeling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: The field of pharmacometrics had decades to evolve and establish itself as an indispensable component of drug development in…

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A novel approach to estimate ontogenies for PBPK applications – From literature data to simulations

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Application of physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling in pediatric and geriatric populations requires a detailed understanding of age-dependent physiological…

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Bayesian individual dynamic predictions of biomarkers and risk of event in joint modelling (with uncertainty): a comparison between Stan, Monolix and NONMEM

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Joint models of drug or biomarker kinetics and occurrence of event  are increasingly used in drug development using nonlinear…

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Positive allosteric modulators – a challenge for development of QSP models

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Background: Positive allosteric modulator (PAM)-antagonists exhibit paradoxical pharmacological profiles by simultaneously increasing agonist affinity whilst decreasing the efficacy of the agonist…

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QSP Modelling of Neurodegenerative Chronic Diseases and Brain Biomarkers: Adding the Effect of Ageing on Brain Volume

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: Physiological modelling and simulation including brain physiology (and/or pharmacology) have been typically based on the assumption that brain is…

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Comparison of Phase I combination therapy designs by clinical trial simulations to evaluate early tumor shrinkage

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: In oncology, there is a growing interest in the use of combination therapies in early clinical trials, but most…

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Systems pharmacology modelling of the alternative pathway to study target suitability

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: The complement system (CS) is an integral part of the innate immune system. Its effector functions include pathogen clearance…

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An open source software solution for automating pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic model selection

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:The current approach to population PKPD model selection is formally known as downhill search and is a local search method….

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Shared Learning from a Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling Strategy for Human Pharmacokinetics Prediction through Retrospective Analysis of Genentech Compounds

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction:  Quantitative prediction of human pharmacokinetics (PK) including the PK profile and key PK parameters are critical for early drug…

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