Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Scientific Meetings
PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Training Courses
PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Journal Club
PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Webinars
PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Careers Meetings
PSI Webinar: Methodology and first results of the iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) consortium
Date: Tuesday 24th June 2025 Time: 14:00 - 15:00 BST / 15:00 - 16:00 CET Location: Online via Zoom
Who is this event intended for?: Researchers, professionals consuming and using research findings, and persons interested in research.
What is the benefit of attending?: Be on top of the recent EU-wide development in reproducible science.
Overview
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.
Cost
This webinar is free to both Members of PSI and Non-Members.
Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich
Rachel Heyard holds a PhD in Biostatistics and is currently a postdoctoral fellow in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, University of Zurich (UZH). After finalising her PhD at UZH in 2019, she left academia to join the data team of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) as a statistician. While working on diverse data and statistics projects informing science policy, she discovered her passion for meta-research - the interdisciplinary study of research itself. After a bit more than three years at the SNSF, she decided to go back to academia and started a postdoc in meta-research at the Center for Reproducible Science, where she teaches Good Research Practices and continues doing meta-research. Her research interests include developing and testing new approaches for allocating research funding, statistical methods in research, and improving reproducibility and the uptake of Open Science. In the EU consortium iRISE (improving Reproducibility In SciencE) she co-lead the theory work package. She is further the vice-president of the Swiss Statistical Society, part of the steering committee of the CoARA (Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment) working group on Responsible Indicators and Metrics, and the organiser of the Zurich ReproducibiliTea Seminar Series.
Upcoming Events
PSI Book Club: Change: How organisations achieve hard-to-imagine results in uncertain and volatile times
Organizations have to adapt to the transforming landscape of our industry to ensure they continue to be successful in the future. Many of us are feeling the impact of organizational change. By reading John P Kotter’s book we can understand about organizational change and learn how to thrive, rather than just survive, through change.
Change, by John P Kotter (and his team), is a summary of all that he has learned over his decades of research and leading change. His book describes why many current approaches to change are inadequate and explains why new solutions need to give people a voice and a role in a new, change-embracing organization.
Develop your understanding of organisational change and become empowered to be part of your organisation’s change, by reading Change by John P Kotter and joining the Sept-Dec 2025 book club. You will be invited to join facilitated discussions of the concepts and ideas and apply knowledge from the book in-between sessions.
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.
PSI Training Course: Propensity Scores: Practical Application in Non-randomised Studies
The course will introduce the topic of propensity scores and the use of external data. Covering the topics of matching and weighting as well as more advance topics of high dimension propensity scores, multi-valued treatments, double robustness and time-varying scenarios. There will be the opportunity to participate in some hands on practical exercises in R.
Our monthly webinar series allows attendees to gain practical knowledge and skills in open-source coding and tools, with a focus on applications in the pharmaceutical industry.
Making Estimands Work - Practical Approaches with Implementation in Data Standards
This event will discuss the impact of the estimand framework on data flow and data handling for analysis datasets (ADaM). What are the considerations to produce data sets suitable for estimation of estimands and traceability of the occurrence of intercurrent events. This webinar will include tips for best practice, based on the White paper Implementation of ICH E9(R1) Estimands Framework using Data Standards.
PSI/EFSPI Biomarker SIG Webinar: Statistical Methods for ctDNA Data
This webinar will describe what ctDNA is and what the key challenges are for analysing it. We will then summarise and review methods that were published over the last few years for analysing ctDNA data.
The morning will be dedicated to networking opportunities, helping attendees build connections with peers and professionals. In the afternoon, participants can attend a series of talks and workshops, including a career panel featuring speakers from both academia and industry, offering insights into various career paths. There will also be a statistical workshop, as well as the opportunity to learn about and debate some of the hot topics in the world of medical statistics. To wrap up the day, we’re exploring interest in an informal after-work networking event for those keen to continue the conversation.
Joint PSI/EFSPI, Phuse, ASA Safety Working Group Webinar Series: Overview of safety analysis and implementation process of safety surveillance in ongoing studies
The session will have three speakers and a discussant. This session will be the first in a series of webinars around safety in clinical trials. The series is co-organized by PSI, ASA-Biopharm safety working group and PHUSE.
This two-afternoon virtual course provides a practical introduction to adaptive clinical trials, focusing on the concepts, applications, and regulatory principles outlined in ICH E20 through real-world examples and case studies.
PSI Vaccines SIG Webinar: Statistical Immune Correlate Analysis of Hemagglutination Inhibition Titers for an mRNA-based Influenza Vaccine
This 1-hour webinar is designed for statisticians with an interest in vaccine development, to learn about the recent application of statistical immune correlate analysis in vaccine development. Specifically, an application of such analyses to evaluate hemagglutination inhibition titers for an influenza vaccine
PSI Careers - MEDMathS: Medicine Empowered by Data, Maths and Statistics
Date: Wednesday 4th November 2026
A careers talk about medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing new medicines. Learn about the field of medical statistics and how it plays a crucial role in developing groundbreaking new medicines, vaccines and healthcare products.
Date: 18 November 2026
This is an excellent opportunity for students to find out more about the field of medical statistics, talk to people from different organisations and make contacts for the future. All students currently studying for a mathematics or statistics-related BSc, MSc or PhD are invited to attend, and we welcome interest from exhibitors too.
Aligning Estimation with the Clinical Question of Interest
This webinar will focus on aligning estimation to estimands. How do different strategies for handling intercurrent events and missing data handling influence the choice of estimation method, with illustration using a case study.
This networking event is aimed at statisticians that are new to the pharmaceutical industry who wish to meet colleagues from different companies and backgrounds.
PSI Careers Coaching Series: Peer Support Initiative
This 10-month peer support programme is aimed at professionals with five or more years of experience who are seeking structured development and connection with peers at a similar career stage. Through 5 bi-monthly topics, participants will engage in coach-led presentations, small-group discussions, and regular progress reviews focused on achieving tangible outcomes.
In this vital role you will generate evidence to meet Health Technology Assessment (HTA) requirements, while ensuring that the analyses performed meet required standards and are robust and valid.
Bristol Myers Squibb - Director, Statistical Methodology and Innovation
Lead the development of innovative statistical methods, provides expert consulting, oversees tools and software, and mentors team members while collaborating cross-functionally to address complex drug development challenges.
Phastar – Associate Director, Statistics – Real World Evidence (RWE)
As an Associate Director, Statistics (RWE) you will focus on supporting one of our key pharmaceutical clients within our FSP function. This will be a hands-on technical role, with oversight responsibilities and cross-functional exposure.
Phastar – Principal Statistician – Real World Evidence (RWE)
We are seeking an experienced Statistician to join our FSP team to support one of our fantastic and well-known global pharmaceutical clients, at Principal level.
We are seeking an experienced Statistician to join our FSP team to support one of our fantastic and well-known global pharmaceutical clients, at either Senior or Principal levels.
This position is deal for a statistician who values ownership, collaboration, and using data to enable confident development decisions and to support regulatory submissions.