Olga and Natallia discuss their new book Quantitative Methods in Pharmaceutical Research and Development: Concepts and Applications. 

This episode features discussions with 3 mentor-mentee pairs from the Biopharmaceutical Section mentoring program. Conversations include Qing Li and Abie Ekangaki (start 1:25), Samson Ghebremariam and Scott Clark (start 44:33), and Carie Kimbrough and Bruce Binkowitz (start 102:29). They discuss the benefits of mentoring and the dynamics of the mentoring relationship. 

Yabing Mai and Thomas Birkner discuss the 2020 Workshop and the changes necessary to go virtual.

Nusrat discusses biomarker analysis throughout clinical development and her recent book Biomarker Analysis in Clinical Trials with R.

Dottie Brown, Ciprian Crainiceanu, and Jean Recta discuss how pain is quantified in human and animal trials.

Nancy Flournoy, Dan Holder, and Jim Rosenberger discuss the mission and history of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and how it will adapt for the future.

Mouna Akacha, Yongming Qu, and Aileen Ward discuss COVID-19 and the operational and statistical effects on clinical trials.

Meijuan Li discusses precision medicine, diagnostic devices, and the importance of parallel development of drugs and diagnostics. 

Glen discusses his graduate training in data science in the United Kingdom, vital sign monitoring, the challenges of efficient drug supply, and his healthcare technology podcast, the Pod of Asclepius.

Bruce discusses the Japanese regulatory environment, challenges for statistics departments spread across the globe, and his hopes and plans for the Biopharmaceutical Section in 2020.