August 27-28, 2021

Virtual

Interaction

Training Academy

Overview

Welcome to the very first Statistics in Pharmaceuticals (SIP2021) conference. This unique conference aims to introduce a career in pharmaceutical industry to students studying in quantitative fields, especially statistics and data sciences. This two-day conference will connect you to the world of clinical statistics, and show you how statistics contributes to different phases and aspects of drug development and to improve patients’ lives. The SIP2021 conference is sponsored by Amgen, Biogen, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol Myers Squibb, Pfizer, Servier, Takeda and Vertex. The sponsor companies, together with UConn Department of Statistics and UConn Center for Career Development, organize and provide the program for SIP2021. During the conference, you will hear from experienced clinicians and statisticians sharing their “why”, discussing important clinical questions and challenges, and how statistics provides solutions to some of those. You will also learn about different and diverse opportunities which this industry has to offer and hear from professionals about their “typical day” and what can get you there. There will be plenty of self-development opportunities along with networking opportunities with peers as well as experienced professionals. The conference is virtual and free to all students around the world. To take advantage of this opportunity, please register today!

Click here to listen to The Effective Statistician Podcast Interview with Dooti Roy and Qiqi Deng about the Statistics in Pharmaceutical’s summer course and conference.


Highlights

  • Keynotes by Leaders
  • Technology and Health
  • Innovation and its impact
  • Understanding diseases
  • Meet Professionals
  • Impact of Statistics
  • Discover career paths

Opportunities on

  • Self-Development
  • Build your Network
  • Resume Writing
  • Interview Skills
  • Sponsor Interviews
  • Share your research
  • Poster Presentation

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

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Scholarship Recipients


Abraham Adokwei
Abraham is from Ghana. He is a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University working toward an MS Statistics degree. He seeks to become a top-notch researcher in the field of Statistics with a particular focus on the analysis of data that typically arise in modern biomedical research.


Prince Allotey
Prince is from Ghana, West Africa.  He is currently a Ph.D. student in The Department of Statistics at University of Connecticut and working under the supervision of Dr. Ofer Harel. His research focuses on Incomplete Data, Bayesian Statistics and Spatial Statistics. His long-term goal is to become a full Professor in Statistics.


Danielle Brister
Danielle is a 4th year undergraduate student studying chemistry at Arizona State University (ASU). She currently works as a biostatistics research assistant at the ASU Biodesign Institute's Center for Personalized Diagnostics, where she assists Dr. Yunro Chung in developing statistical methods for the evaluation of novel cancer biomarkers.


Alidan Duoerkongjiang
Alidan is from Xinjiang Province, China. She is currently a Master student in Medical Biometry/Biostatistics at University of Bremen in Germany. Her research focuses on Neurological Data, Statistics Modeling and Statistics Analysis. Her long-term goal is to become a statistician.


Sana Gupta
Sana is an undergraduate student at the University of Connecticut. She is a Statistics major and Bioinformatics minor in the UConn Honors Program. Sana is passionate about statistics and science, and she hopes to work in the pharmaceutical industry as a statistician for pharmaceutical clinical studies and research in the future.


Chuks Ijede
Chuks is from Nigeria. He a Student of Bremen University in Germany where he is doing Masters degree in Medical Biometry/ Biostatistics. His carrier goal is to become an outstanding scholar and practitioner in the field of Biostatistics, that will help translate globally acceptable development target into locally achievable development aspiration that the masses can relate with.


Yinxue Li
Yinxue comes from China. She is currently a second-year graduate student in the Department of Statistics at University of Connecticut working toward an MS Biostatistics degree.  Yinxue seeks to become a renowned biostatistician in the pharmaceutical field after graduation. 


Pearl Mberede
Pearl is a Nigerian. She is currently a master’s student of Medical Biometry/Biostatistics at the University of Bremen, Germany. Pearl’s long-term goal is to become a renowned research-scientist in the field of medical research that are based on tropical diseases and Gynecology.


Okafor Okwunchuwku Stanley
Okafor is from Nigeria. He is currently a M.Sc student in the department of Medical Biometry/Biostatistics at faculty 3, Mathematics and Computer Science, in the University of Bremen, Germany. His goal is to become a professional  medical biostatistician involved in advancement of public health through clinical research and drug development. 


Yanzhao Wang
Yanzhao is a 4th-year Ph.D. Candidate at WPI. His research interest is in Spatio-temporal outbreak detection, Bayesian hierarchical model with STAN, and Bayesian Inference approximation with INLA. He has a strong interest in statistics in Pharma.


Diezhang Wu
Diezhang is originally from China. She graduated from Boston University with an MS in Applied Biostatistics and is currently a Ph.D student of Biostatistics at UMass Amherst. She is doing research with Dr. Leontine Alkema, focusing on Bayesian Hierarchical modeling. Her goal is to work as Biostatistician in the pharmaceutical industry after graduation.


Muskan Yadav
Muskan is an international student from India and she is pursuing master's in applied mathematics. “Math for me is more than just numbers and textbooks it is an inseparable part of my life. For me math is not a task, rather it is a deep-rooted question that must be answered.” Muskan wants to be able to teach math to be enigmatic and beguiling, and not as an arduous and boring subject.

Poster Award Recipients


Poster Award Winners from Summer Interns

  • Hongfei Li. Poster title: Borrowing External Trial Data to Establish A Hybrid Control Arm in Randomized Clinical Trials.
  • Zhenwei Zhou. Poster title: An Improved Biomarker-Guided Adaptive Patient Enrichment Design.

 

Poster Award Winners from BIST 5092 Projects

  • Prince Allotey, Xiaohui Chen, Sydney Louit, Yanzhao Wang. Poster title: An Analysis of Phase III Trials for Drug X.
  • Diezhang Wu, Linxi Han. Poster title: MS-PhD Project on Phase III Clinical trial.

Summer Course



If you want to learn more about application of statistics in pharmaceutical industry, you may consider to take the 1 credit course from University of Connecticut.

Click here to the Summer Course

Organizing Committee

UConn: Ming-Hui Chen
Boehringer Ingelheim: Qiqi Deng and Dooti Roy
Pfizer: Steven Gilbert
Biogen: Susie Sinks
Servier: Zhaoyang Teng
BMS: Helen Li
Takeda: Yulia Sidi
Vertex: Bingming Yi
Amgen: Tony Jiang
Administrative Support: Tracy Burke, UConn
Webmaster: Daeyoung Lim