2017

• Joint Conference on Biometrics & Biopharmaceutical Statistics (28 August–1 September 2017), Vienna, Austria. Oral presentation by Jason Madan and Nigel Stallard, University of Warwick, Coventry
• 10th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures Conference (20-23 June 2017), California, USA. Oral presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna
• 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials, being held jointly with The 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference (7-10 May 2017) The Arena and Convention Center Liverpool in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Poster presentation by Dr Siew Wan Hee, Warwick University “How does prevalence affect the size of clinical trials for treatments of rare diseases?”
• 38th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials being held jointly with The 4th International Clinical Trials Methodology Conference. (7-10 May 2017) The Arena and Convention Center Liverpool in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Oral presentation by Prof Nigel Stallard, Warwick University, in a Contributed Paper Session “A Value of Information approach to optimal design of confirmatory clinical trials”
• InSPiRe Conference on Methodology for Clinical Trials in Small Populations and Rare Diseases (26-28 April 2017), University of Warwick, Coventry, England
  
• Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) small-population research methods projects and regulatory application workshop (29-30 March 2017) European Medicines Agency, London, UK
• AZ MRC Science Symposium 2017 (22 March 2017), University of Cambridge. Workshop 'All data great and small: advancing clinical research through quantitiative Science' presented by Nigel Stallard, University of Warwick.

2016

• Workshop "Errors in variables" of the working group Bayes Methods of the International Biometric Society, German Region (IBS-DR) (2 December 2016), Mainz, Germany: Oral presentation by Burak Gunhan, University Medical Centre, Göttingen "Network meta-analysis using integrated nested Laplace approximations" and oral presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre Göttingen "Effect and shrinkage estimation in meta-analyses of two studies"

• Institut für Mathematik, Universität Wien (Oktober 2016): Presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna "Optimizing Confirmatory Clinical Trial Designs for Targeted Therapies - A Decision Theoretic Approach"

• 5th Early Phase Adaptive Trials Workshop (29 September-1 October 2016), Turin, Italy: Invited presentations by Sarah Zohar and Moreno Ursino Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM), France

• HEC 2016: Health - Exploring Complexity: An Interdisciplinary Systems Approach (29 August 2016). Oral presentation by Steffen Unkel, University Medical Centre, Göttingen "Evidence synthesis for a single randomized controlled trial and observational data in small populations"
• Artemis Toumazi , Moreno Ursino and Sarah Zohar, INSERM, Paris. (10 August 2016). R package dfpk "A Bayesian Dose-Finding Design using Pharmacokinetics (PK) for Phase I Clinical Trials". https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/dfpk/index.html 
• 37th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (21-25 August 2016), Birmingham, England:

Oral presentation by Dr Siew Wan Hee, Warwick Medical School "Decision-theoretic design for a series of phase II trials with correlated treatment effects", oral presentation by Moreno Ursino, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale, Paris "A Bayesian weighted quasi-likelihood design for phase I/II clinical trial with repeated dose administration in preterm newborns" and oral presentation by Christian Roever, University Medical Centre Göttingen: "Meta-analysis of two studies in the presence of heterogeneity with applications in rare diseases". Invited presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna “A decision theoretic approach to optimize clinical trial designs for targeted therapies” and invited presentation by Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School, “Adaptive enrichment designs”

Mini-symposium on Statistical methods in rare diseases and small populations organised by Nigel Stallard, including invited presentation by Sarah Zohar, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale

• Multiple Comparison Procedures Conference (date & venue tba)
  
• International Biometric Conference 2016 (15 July 2016), Victoria, Canada: Presentation by Steffen Unkel, University Medical Centre, Göttingen "Evidence synthesis for a single randomized controlled trial and observational data in small populations"
• Nordstat 2016 (The 26th Nordic Conference in Mathematical Statistics) (27-30 June 2016), Copenhagen, Denmark: Presentation by Frank Miller, Stockholm University, "Applied decision theory for clinical trials in small populations"
• Drug Information Association Conference (26-30 June 2016), Philadelphia
  
• PSI Conference (Promoting Statistical Insight) (24 May 2016), Berlin: Presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen: "Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis made simple"
• EMA Public workshop on extrapolation of efficacy and safety in medicine development across age groups (17 May 2016), EMA London. Participation by Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd, Norbert Benda, BfArM, Tim Friede, University Medical Centre, Göttingen and Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna,. Presentation by Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School “Methodology for extrapolation in the EU FP7 ASTERIX, IDeAl and InSPiRe projects”
• 37th Annual Meeting of the Society for Clinical Trials (15-18 May 2016), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  
• 2016 Trends and Innovations in Clinical Trial Statistics, Co-organized by Quintiles Advisory Services Analytics, Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University and ASA North Carolina Chapter Sheraton Imperial Hotel and Convention Center, Durham, North Carolina (1-4 May 2016): Presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna, "Optimizing Confirmatory Clinical Trial Designs for Targeted Therapies” and session chaired by Martin Posch on "Clinical Trials in Small Populations"
• Optimizing Trial Designs for Targeted Therapies - A Decision Theoretic Approach Comparing Sponsor and Public Health Perspectives, Presentation by Thomas Ondra, Gottingen (17 March 2016) DAGStat 2016, Göttingen, Germany.
• Fourth Joint Statistical Meeting of the Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Statistik "Statistics under one Umbrella" (15-17 March 2016) Göttingen, Germany Presentation by: Christian Roever, University Medical Centre, Göttingen ; Presentation by Steffen Unkel, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (14 March 2016), Göttingen Germany
• International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) Small Population Clinical Trials Task Force workshop, (3 March 2016) EMA London. Chaired by Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd, with participation by Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School, Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna and Tim Friede, University Medical Centre, Göttingen. Report

• Stockholm University, Department of Statistics (24 February 2016) Presentation by Frank Miller, Stockholm University “Approaches to sample size calculation for clinical trials in small populations”

• University College London Biostatistics Symposium (18 February 2016) Presentation by Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School, “Methodology for clinical trials in small populations: the InSPiRe project”

2015

• http://cran.r-project.org/package=bayesmeta  (16 December 2015), Christian Roever, University Medical Centre, Göttingen. The bayesmeta package provides a collection of functions to facilitate easy Bayesian inference in the generic random-effects meta-analysis model. It allows to derive the posterior distribution of the two parameters (effect and heterogeneity), and provides the functionality to evaluate joint and marginal posterior probability distributions, predictive distributions, shrinkage, etc.
• “Implementing discrete approximations to continuous mixture” at the Workshop of the IBS-GR "Bayes Methods"
  working group (Algorithms for Bayesian inference for complex problems) (5 December 2015), Dortmund, Germany: Presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Forward Looking Forum: Clinical Trials in Small Populations (30 Nov - 1 December 2015), London, England: Oral Presentation by Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd, and Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna, plus poster by Steffen Unkel, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Bayesian methods in clinical development: (27 November 2015), International Biometric Society, German Region, meeting attended by Steffen Unkel, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Statistics can improve the treatment of rare diseases. (6 November 2015) Stockholm: Interview with Frank Miller, Stockholm University

• International Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs (15–17 October 2015), Mexico: Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd

• EMA Workshop on extrapolation across age groups (30 September 2015) Presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna, “How to weigh the strength of prior information and clarify the expected level of information”. Participation by Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd, Norbert Benda, BfArM and Nigel Stallard, Warwick Medical School
• Eighth International Workshop on Simulation (24 September 2015), Vienna, Austria: Presentation by Tim Friede, Universitaetsmedizin Göttingen, Germany
• 21st Scientific Symposium of the Austrian Pharmacological Society, APHAR (16–18 September 2015), Graz, Austria: Presentation by Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd
• 60th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) (6-9 September 2015), Krefeld, Germany: Presentations by Steffen Unkel & Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• 36th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics (24-27 August 2015), Utrecht, The Netherlands: Presentations by Nigel Stallard and Siew Wan Hee, Warwick University, Dominic Magirr, Thomas Ondra, Medical University of Vienna, Moreno Ursino, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale and Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Design and Analysis of Experiments in Healthcare (DAEW07) (6-10 July 2015), Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK: Presentation by Moreno Ursino, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (slides) Video presentation
• Workshop on Adaptive Designs and Multiple Testing (24-26 June 2015), Cologne, Germany: Presentation by Thomas Ondra, Universitaetsmedizin Göttingen, and Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna

• Roes 2015 Meeting on Statistical Methods for Small Populations “Identifying subgroups of treatment responders: A meta-analytic approach”, (15-19 June 2015), Milan, Italy: Presentation as invited speaker by Tim Friede, Universitaetsmedizin Göttingen Germany

• Joint Meeting of the International Biometric Society (IBS) Austro-Swiss and Italian Regions (17 June 2015), Milan, Italy: Presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen

• Institut für Angewandte Statistik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, June 2016 Presentation by Martin Posch, Medical University of Vienna

• 24th Meeting, Population Approach Group in Europe (2-5 June 2015), Hersonissos, Crete: Poster by Moreno Ursino, Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale
• Independent Scientific Advisory Committee (19-21 May 2015), Paris
• University of Southampton (28 April 2015): Seminar, Simon Day, Clinical Trials Consulting & Training Ltd Abstract
• Specialist training to Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency (March 2015), Japan: Course, Martin Posch, Medizinische Universitaet Wien
• 61st Biometric Colloquium of the German Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS), (17 March 2015) Dortmund, Germany: Presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen "Heterogeneity in random-effects meta-analysis"
  
• Rare Disease Day (28 February 2015)

2014

• 59th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Medical Computer Science, Biometry and Epidemiology (GMDS) (7-10
  September 2014) Göttingen, Germany: Presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• 23^rd Annual Conference of International Genetic Epidemiology Society (28-30 August 2014) Vienna, Austria: Presentation by Martin Posch, Medizinische Universitaet Wien
• 29th International Workshop on Statistical Modelling (IWSM) (14 July 2014), Göttingen, Germany: Oral presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen
• Department of Biostatistics – Bayesian Biostatistics 2014 Conference (2 July 2014), Zurich, Switzerland: Poster by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen

• Medical News: Researchers develop new methods for analysis of clinical studies in small patient groups (Published 1 July, 2014)

• Save the Date! - Symposium on Small Populations - 1st and 2nd July 2014, Vienna, Austria. The Symposium is of interest to patient organisations, phamaceutical companies, CRO's, ethics committees, regulatory agencies, clinical trial investigators, statasticians, epidemiologists, clinical trial experts in rare diseases, personalised medicines or paediatrics...

• PatientInnen-Gruppen mit geringer Personenanzahl im Fokus der MedUni Wien (30 Jun 2014)

• InSPiRe Press Release: Seltene Erkrankungen: Neue Initiativen für effiziente Studien (30 June 2014)

• IBS-DR Bayes AG Workshop (12 May 2014), Dortmund Germany: Oral presentation by Christian Röver, University Medical Centre, Göttingen  "Implementing discrete approximations to continuous mixture distributions"
• SOBI (Swedish Orphan Biovitrum), Stockholm (25 April 2014) Presentation by Frank Miller, Stockholm University
• Rare Disease Day (28 February 2014)
• Press Release: Symposium on Small Populations (28 February 2014) The EU have funded three projects, called asterix, IDEAL and InSPiRe, to explore new methods for design and analysis of clinical trials in small population groups. To mark the start, the three projects are organising a joint Symposium on Small Populations to be held at the Medical University of Vienna.
• InSPiRe Press Release: Innovative new project looks to improve opportunities for rare disease research (28 February 2014)

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