The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
The PSI 2023 Conference took place at Novotel Hammersmith, London between the 11th and 14th of June 2023.
The conference consisted of a variety of plenary and parallel sessions, as well as breakout discussion sessions, workshops, a poster session and the Annual General Meeting. The conference ran over three full days from Monday to Wednesday, with a choice from two optional half day training course on the Sunday afternoon.
The 2023 PSI conference was record-breaking all round, with 618 delegates listening to more than 120 speakers across 40 sessions! Thank you to everyone involved in the conference: speakers, poster presenters, delegates, exhibitors, sponsors and the PSI scientific committee, for contributing to another fantastic event.
David Lawrence, 2023 PSI Conference Chair
Sarah Williams, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair Kate Taylor, 2023 PSI Conference Vice-Chair
To access the recorded sessions from the PSI 2023 Conference, please visit our Video on Demand homepage.
To source the Conference content, simply select 'PSI 2023 Conference' from the 'Collection' dropdown menu. This will filter all available content to only show on-demand sessions from the 2023 Conference.
Please note: these are only available to view for Members of PSI, and will need to be signed in to watch them.
Slide Decks
A select few of this year's sessions only have the slide decks available. Please see Session Titles listed below, with slide decks available to download beneath.
Please note: these are only accessible for Members of PSI, and you will need to be signed in to access them.
Monday 12th June
Interactive workshop on communicating data to Data Monitoring Committees In this interactive workshop, we focused on communicating data to a DMC. The goal of the session was to illustrate difficulties a DMC may have with a report that is not fit for purpose and discuss suggestions for improvements to DMC reports including newer technologies such as apps facilitating an in-depth interrogation of the data. Due to the interactive nature of this session, we wanted to share the slides with members for recapping the session.
Tuesday 13th June
HTA & Launch & Life Cycle SIG: Connecting the dots: how can statisticians drive end-to-end thinking in the development of new medicines?
The session began with a lightning round of 5-minute talks from statisticians with different specializations across the lifecycle. These short presentations, where presenters clarify their roles, set the scene. Participants who joined the session then broke out and discussed case studies of “typical new products” intended to help identify and understand the challenges for statisticians from the different perspectives of regulatory, HTA, and medical affairs.
Wednesday 14th June
Learning from Mistakes
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes” (Oscar Wilde). Every child falls over before they learn to walk and yet in the workplace there remains fear of making an error. As statisticians, we all understand that even the most stringent processes have a failure rate, but despite this, we often demand perfection from ourselves. Mistakes can range from the trivial through to ones that cost a great deal in time and money. Experienced pharmaceutical statisticians will share some mistakes made and more importantly how to find solutions and share the lessons learnt. Our careers grow from how we respond to problems and challenges. This growth is only possible if organisations create a culture where employees can openly share mistakes and raise concerns; good managers create a healthy environment for staff to thrive and develop, and understand that fear of failure and stress are barriers to progress.
Adaptive Designs - What, why, when and how should I use them
Adaptive designs offer many potential benefits throughout the clinical development process. However, not all of these benefits are accessible all of the time. One must use the right trial design in the right context, which requires careful reflection on the trial’s aim. The intuition about when to use which method presents a barrier to implementation in practice with much of the knowledge locked within the community already practising adaptive designs. In this session, we presented a series of examples and quizzes to help the audience develop their own intuition for adaptive designs. We focussed in particular on group sequential designs that offer the opportunity for early stopping, adaptive designs involving multiple hypothesis tests such as enrichment designs and seamless phase 2-3 designs, and designs that incorporate response adaptive randomisation.
Upcoming Events
PSI Introduction to Industry Training (ITIT) Course - 2025/2026
An introductory course giving an overview of the pharmaceutical industry and the drug development process as a whole, aimed at those with 1-3 years' experience. It comprises of six 2-day sessions covering a range of topics including Research and Development, Toxicology, Data Management and the Role of a CRO, Clinical Trials, Reimbursement, and Marketing.
Joint PSI/EFSPI Visualisation SIG 'Wonderful Wednesday' Webinars
Our monthly webinar explores examples of innovative data visualisations relevant to our day to day work. Each month a new dataset is provided from a clinical trial or other relevant example, and participants are invited to submit a graphic that communicates interesting and relevant characteristics of the data.
Urgent Meeting: Medical Statistician Apprenticeship Scheme
The UK government have recently announced that level 7 apprenticeships must be fully funded by the employer from January 2026, for any apprentice over the age of 21. With funding for MSc's at an all time low, and universities courses facing closures, the apprenticeship scheme remains as important as ever, as a tool to encourage new statisticians into our industry. In this dedicated meeting, Valerie Millar (chair of the apprenticeship scheme) will provide full updates on the government changes and seek feedback and ideas from employers, universities and apprentices on how to keep this scheme successfully running for many years to come.
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This 1-hour webinar will be an opportunity to hear about the methodology and first results of the iRISE consortium. iRISE is working towards a better understanding of reproducibility and the interventions that work to improve it. At the end of the presentation there will also be the opportunity to ask questions.
One-day Event: Change Management for Moving to R/Open-Source
This one-day event focuses on the comprehensive management of transitioning to R/Open-Source, addressing the challenges and providing actionable insights. Attendees will participate in sessions covering essential topics such as training best practices, creating strategic plans, making the case to senior management, and managing both statistical and programming aspects of the transition.
PSI Book Club - The Art of Explanation: How to Communicate with Clarity and Confidence
Develop your non-technical skills by reading The Art of Explanation by Ros Atkins and joining the Sept-Dec 2025 book club. You will be invited to join facilitated discussions of the concepts and ideas and apply skills from the book in-between sessions.
This course is aimed at biostatisticians with no or some pediatric drug development experience who are interested to further their understanding. We will give you an introduction to the pediatric drug development landscape. This will include identifying the key regulations and processes governing pediatric development, a discussion on the needs and challenges when conducting pediatric research and a focus on the ways to overcome these challenges from a statistical perspective.
This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.
EFSPI/PSI Causal Inference SIG Webinar: Instrumental Variable Methods
The webinar is targeted at statisticians working in the pharmaceutical industry, and the objective is to 1) provide a basic understanding of IV methodology including how it relates to causal inference, and 2) present two inspirational pharma-relevant applications.
This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.
This is an exciting, new opportunity for an experienced Statistician looking to take the next step in their career. Offered as a remote or hybrid position aligned with our site in Harrogate, North Yorkshire.