Objectives
To provide a forum to discuss the statistical issues involved in Regulatory and Investigative Toxicology.
Who we are
Our membership consists of statisticians at CROs, pharmaceutical companies and academia who are working in pre-clinical areas such as:
- Acute Tox
- General Tox
- Toxicokinetics
- DMPK
- ECG
- Repro Tox
- Genetic Tox
- Immuno Tox
- Toxicogenomics
- Histopathology
- Safety Pharmacology
- Carcinogenicity
We discuss diverse topics ranging from Dog Telemetry data analysis to Decision Trees, from Bayesian methods to dealing with irate study directors, and now have a list of over 50 affiliates on our e-mail distribution list.
How to get in touch
Join our mailing list by e-mailing
this address with brief details of the field(s) you are working in.
Latest News
We are excited to announce that we will be running a workshop in 2019. It will be on the 2
nd and 3
rd April at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Heathrow .
The topics selected for the agenda this year include:
- Bayesian approaches in pre-clinical
- Brainstorming to prepare a paper on statistical approaches in Toxicology/Safety Assessment studies
- Translation between pre-clinical and clinical
- Exploration of new areas where we can have an impact (eg Data Sciences, Big Data, Machine Learning…)
All this, including overnight accommodation, dinner, breakfast and refreshments during the 2 days, is available for £205 per delegate.
Registration is open and spaces are limited.
To Register
click here.
Upcoming Events
The PSI Special Interest Group “Toxicology” have a series of regular FREE webinars dealing with statistical topics faced in toxicology and related fields. The presentations will run for an hour, with approximately 45 min presentation and a Q&A session in the remaining time. See section below for details of this years seminars.
Workshops
Since our inauguration in 2006 we have run a workshop approximately every 18 months. Our last workshop was run on the 24-25 April 2018 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel near Heathrow. The agenda focused on five topics:
- Self admin/abuse potential
- Statistical methods for analysing the Ames-test
- Role of the Non-Clinical Statistician
- Bio-Assay Validation
- Statistics in Safety Testing
You can find all the slides under the
PSI Resources page searching for:
> Toxicology Sig > TOX SIG Workshop 2018
Webinars
The PSI Special Interest Group “Toxicology” seminars for 2019 are as follows:
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Date
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Title
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Presenter
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19 Feb 2019
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Data Quality and Pre-Clinical Research
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Professor Malcolm Macleod
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16 April 2019
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ICH S1 revision and CAD process
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TBC
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18 June 2019
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The Pig-a-Assay
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Scientist(s) from Covance
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17 Sept 2019
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10 Dec 2019
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To Register for a webinar please click on the link once it is available.
For all previous webinars click here.