Register Now for June NONMEM Workshop

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Registration is now open for a 3-day introductory workshop in population PK data analysis to be held Thursday, June 20 through Saturday, June 22, 2013, in Niagara Falls, NY. The workshop is geared to pharmaceutical and biotech industry scientists and to graduate students in pharmaceutics, clinical pharmacology, pharmacy, or statistics who are looking to gain hands-on modeling experience. Presenters will include Jill Fiedler-Kelly, Vice President and Chief Scientific Officer at Cognigen Corporation, and David Jaworowicz, Associate Director of PK/PD at Cognigen. Given the hands-on nature of the course, enrollment will be limited to 25 persons. Click here to download on the full course outline and registration form.

This hands-on course using NONMEM is given in conjunction with the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and will provide a comprehensive understanding of the population PK approach to data analysis using formal lectures; review of data, code, and data analysis results; and practical exercises. Participants will learn how to code control streams, interpret NONMEM 7 output, and evaluate model results. In addition, participants will receive a full set of lecture notes and a USB flash drive loaded with a PERSPECTIVE Hypertext Data Analysis Map containing a fully documented pharmacometric modeling project, including control streams for more than 60 different models.

Fiedler-Kelly is Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB and is in her 13th year of presenting this workshop. “Each time I teach the course, I get new insight from my interactions with participants and the questions they ask. I use real-life examples and numerous anecdotes based on my experiences at Cognigen. I think this imparts a level of practicality to the material and makes what could be very esoteric content a great deal more tangible.”

Fiedler-Kelly also teaches a graduate-level course at UB on population pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modeling in which students learn the theory and application of the population approach.

The 3-day workshop will be preceded by Pharmacokinetic–Pharmacodynamic Modeling: Concepts and Applications, a workshop presented by William J. Jusko, PhD, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB and Director of the Center of Excellence in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics and by Mechanistic & Physiologic Pharmacokinetics: Concepts and Applications, a new workshop presented by Jusko in collaboration with Donald Mager, PhD, Associate Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB.

The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB is considered one of the top departments in the world in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and biopharmaceutics.