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  • Friday, October 17, 2025
  • 6:00 AM - 8:00 AM MDT
    Workshop Registration
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    ESQlabs: Building Scalable PBPK-QSP Models: Modularization in MoBi® for OSP Suite V12
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    ICON: New and Advanced Features of NONMEM 7.6 Workshop
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Simulations Plus: From PK-PD Models to Simulations: A Hands-On Workshop using MonolixSuite (Day 1)
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    U of Buffalo/ICON: Modeling Delays in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics using NONMEM
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MDT
    Lunch - Workshops
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    Break - Workshops
  • Saturday, October 18, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MDT
    Registration - Workshops & Pre Con
  • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM MDT
    PC1 - From Pharmacometrics to registration: accelerating a medicine's path to patients. Welcome, introduction and problem statement

    Chair: Lourdes Cucurull-Sanchez, PhD MPhil – Pharmetheus

    Co-Chair: Sandra Visser, PhD – Alltrna

  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Certara: QSP at Scale with Certara IQ
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Pharmetheus: FREM in practical use: Implementation and interpretation
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Simulations Plus: End-to-end clinical trial modeling with the Thales QSP software platform
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Simulations Plus: From PK-PD Models to Simulations: A Hands-On Workshop using MonolixSuite (Day 2)
  • 8:30 AM - 9:00 AM MDT
    PC1 - Pharmacometrics Phisticuffs 1* – Does Pharmacometrics accelerate or slow down a medicine’s path to patients?
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MDT
    PC2 - Accelerating a medicine's path to patients - First Registration
    Moderator: Gemma Dickinson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Eli Lilly and Company
    Preconference
  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM MDT
    BREAK
  • 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM MDT
    PC3 - Accelerating a medicine's path to patients - Beyond Registration
    Preconference
  • 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM MDT
    PC4 - Pharmacometrics Phisticuffs 2* – Is Clinical Pharmacology an enabler or a barrier for Pharmacometrics?
  • 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM MDT
    LUNCH - Workshop Attendees
  • 12:45 PM - 1:30 PM MDT
    PC5 - Pharmacometrics's strategic impact in Drug Development
    Moderator: Bill Denney, PhD (he/him/his) – Human Predictions, LLC
    Preconference
  • 1:00 PM - 7:30 PM MDT
    ACoP 2025 Conference Registration
  • 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    PC6 - Pharmacometrics Phisticuffs 3* – Is Biostatistics a more important partner for drug development than Pharmacometrics, or are they equal partners?
  • 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM MDT
    PC7 - Pharmacometrics implementation and efficient execution
    Preconference
  • 2:45 PM - 3:00 PM MDT
    BREAK
  • 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    PC8 - Pharmacometrics Phisticuffs 4* – Is AIML or QSP saving the day for Pharmacometrics?
  • 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM MDT
    PC9 - The future of Pharmacometrics is ours - Actions to take home
  • 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM MDT
    ACoP BUDDY MEET & GREET
  • 4:30 PM - 4:45 PM MDT
    Concluding Remarks
  • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM MDT
    ACoP 2025 Opening Session
    Speaker: Joy C. Hsu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Genentech
    Speaker: Mark Lovern, PhD (he/him/his) – InSilicoTrials
  • 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM MDT
    PRESIDENT'S WELCOME RECEPTION
  • Sunday, October 19, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Coffee Service
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    ACoP Registration Desk - Hours
  • 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM MDT
    Meet the SIG's
  • 9:00 AM - 9:45 AM MDT
    Presidents Address
  • 9:45 AM - 9:50 AM MDT
    Keynote Speaker Introduction
  • 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM MDT
    Keynote - Drug Discovery and Development in the Age of AI Agents
  • 10:45 AM - 11:00 AM MDT
    Coffee Service
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
    C1A - Differentiated MIDD strategies to accelerate clinical development in metabolic diseases are worth their weight
    Co-Chair: Theodore Rieger, PhD – Pfizer Inc
    Co-Chair: Brian J. Schmidt, PhD – Madrigal Pharmaceuticals
    Speaker: Karen Schneck, PharmD – Eli Lilly and Company
    Speaker: Rune Overgaard, PhD (he/him/his) – Novo Nordisk
    Speaker: Scott Q. Siler, PhD (he/him/his) – Simulations Plus
    Speaker: Sibylle Neuhoff, PhD (she/her/hers) – Certara Predictive Technologies
    Special Populations
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
    C1B - Harnessing Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Predictive Pharmacology and Oncology Drug Development
    Co-Chair: Nazanin Ahmadi Daryakenari, PhD (she/her/hers) – Biomedical Engineering, Brown University
    Co-Chair: Mohammad Kohandel – University of Waterloo
    Speaker: Hongxiang Hu, PhD (he/him/his) – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker: Allison Claas, PhD (she/her/hers) – Novartis
    Stats/ AIML/ Big Data
  • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
    C1C - Applications and Challenges of MIDD in Nucleic Acid therapies
    Co-Chair: Tao Niu, PhD (he/him/his) – Sarepta Therapeutics
    Co-Chair: Xiao S. Hu, PhD – Translational Consulting, L.L.C.
    Speaker: Xiang Gao, PhD (he/him/his) – Ionis Pharmaceuticals
    Speaker: Peijuan Zhu, PhD – Intellia Therapeutics
    Panelist: Daniel Kirouac, PhD – Metrum Research Group
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Lunch
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    STEP (Students, Trainees, Early Professionals) Lunch
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C2A - Expanding Opportunities for Pharmacometrics in the Era of Digital Health
    Chair: Grace V. Lee, PhD (she/her/hers) – Critical Path Institute
    Speaker: Alice Carr, PhD (she/her/hers) – Alberta Diabetes Institute, University of Alberta
    Speaker: Lucy Hutchinson, PhD (she/her/hers) – Data, Analytics and Research, Roche Information Solutions
    Speaker: Logan Brooks, MS – Genentech
    Panelist: Mingyuan Wang, PhD – critical path institute
    Big Data/AI/Machine Learning
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C2B - An immune booster: QSP modeling to advance the treatment for autoimmune diseases
    Co-Chair: Fei Hua, PhD (she/her/hers) – Eli Lilly and Company
    Co-Chair: Huilin Ma, PhD (he/him/his) – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker: Douglas W. Chung, M.S. (he/him/his) – Certara Applied BioSimulation, Sheffield, United Kingdom
    Speaker: Chen Zhao, Ph.D. – Nanjing Medical University
    Speaker: Sai Phanindra Venkatapurapu, PhD – AstraZeneca
    QSP/ PBPK
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C2C - High-impact Applications of Model-based Meta-analyses (MBMA) in Drug Development
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Coffee Break
  • 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM MDT
    STEP Communication Challenge
  • 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM MDT
    Social Dinner Event - A Night of Lights
  • 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM MDT
    The Chill Out Lounge
  • Monday, October 20, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Coffee Service
  • 7:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    ACoP Registration Desk - Hours
  • 8:15 AM - 8:45 AM MDT
    Meet the SIG's
  • 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM MDT
    State-of-the-Art Speaker Intro
  • 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM MDT
    State-of-the-Art: Multi-Scale Digital Twins for Personalized Cardiovascular Modeling and In Silico Clinical Trials
  • 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM MDT
    Abstract Quality & Trainee Awards
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    01 - Exhibits/ Posters/ Lunch
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    03 - QSP - SIG LUNCH
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    04 - SxP - SIG LUNCH
  • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM MDT
    05 - Data Programming - SIG LUNCH
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C3A - Challenges and opportunities in integrating QSP with new modeling techniques and datatypes
    Co-Chair: Karyn Sutton, PhD – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Co-Chair: Khem Raj Ghusinga, PhD (he/him/his) – AstraZeneca
    Speaker: Shivendra Tewari, PhD (he/him/his) – AstraZeneca
    Speaker: Stephan Schaller, PhD (he/him/his) – ESQlabs, GmbH
    QSP/ PBPK
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C3B - Envisioning the Role of GenAI in Modern Pharmacometric Workflows
    Co-Chair: Birgit Schoeberl, PhD (she/her/hers) – Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
    Co-Chair: Emily Nieves (she/her/hers) – Delineate Inc.
    Big Data/AI/Machine Learning
  • 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM MDT
    C3C - Envisioning the Future Landscape of Quantitative Pharmacology and MIDD for Next-Generation RNA Therapeutics
    Co-Chair: Wei Gao, PhD – Moderna Therapeutics
    Speaker: Zheng Yang, PhD – Excelsius LLC.
    Speaker: Devam A. Desai, M.S. – Center of Pharmacometrics and Systems Pharmacology, University of Florida, Orlando, FL
    Speaker: Kenji Miyazawa, PhD (he/him/his) – Moderna, Inc.
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Coffee Break
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    The Ohio State University - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University at Buffalo - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University of Florida - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University of Maryland - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University of Minnesota - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University of North Carolina - University Reception
  • 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    University of Tennessee - University Reception
  • Tuesday, October 21, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM MDT
    Exhibits/ Posters/ Coffee Service
  • 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM MDT
    ACoP Registration Desk - Hours
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MDT
    C4A - Leveraging Real-World Data in Pharmacometrics: Augmenting Clinical Trials and Advancing Research in Understudied Populations
    Chair: Erick Velasquez, PhD – Genentech, Inc
    Speaker: Rui Zhu, PhD – Genentech
    Speaker: Alice S. Tang, PhD – UCSF
    PMx
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MDT
    C4B - Scaling Peaks Unclimbed: How QSP is Shaping the Future Landscape of MIDD in Diseases Beyond Oncology
    Co-Chair: Weirong Wang, PhD – Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
    Co-Chair: Ryan Suderman, PhD (he/him/his) – Simulations Plus, Inc
    Speaker: Melissa Hallow, PhD – Cardiorenal QSP, LLC
    Speaker: Tao Peng, PhD – J&J Innovative Medicine
    Speaker: Anna Sher, MD/PhD (she/her/hers) – QSP - Precision Medicine
    QSP/ PBPK
  • 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM MDT
    C4C - Advances in Mathematical and Computational Modeling for Radiopharmaceutical Therapies
    Co-Chair: Francois p. Combes, PhD PharmD – Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
    Co-Chair: Hunter Stephens, PhD – Certara
    Co-Chair: Mirwais Wardak, Ph.D. – Genentech, Inc.
    Speaker: Moses Wilks, PhD (he/him/his) – Yale University
    Speaker: Karthik Lingineni, PhD – Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation
    Speaker: Kuangyu Shi, PhD (he/him/his) – University of Bern
    Speaker: Fariba Khanshan, PhD (she/her/hers) – AstraZeneca/Novartis
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM MDT
    Coffee Break
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM MDT
    RC1 - Roller Coaster Session - RC1
    Chair: Joy C. Hsu, PhD (she/her/hers) – Genentech
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM MDT
    RC2 - Roller Coaster Session - RC2
    Chair: Yi Ting (Kayla) Lien, PhD (she/her/hers) – GlaxoSmithKline
  • 10:45 AM - 12:15 PM MDT
    RC3 - Roller Coaster Session - RC3
    Chair: James Lu, PhD (he/him/his) – A*STAR Bioinformatics Institute
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM MDT
    01 - Exhibits/ Posters/ Lunch
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM MDT
    02 - Clinical Pharmacometrics - SIG LUNCH
  • 12:15 PM - 1:45 PM MDT
    03 - MCS - SIG LUNCH
  • 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
    C5A - Advancing Automation Tools to Accelerate Drug Development: Cross-SIG Perspectives
    Co-Chair: Jiawei Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – UNC-Chapel Hill
    Co-Chair: Jing Su, NA – Merck & Co., Inc.
    Speaker: Yuchen Wang, PhD – Pfizer
    Speaker: Neelima Thanneer – Bristol Myers Squibb
    Speaker: Kenta Yoshida, PhD (he/him/his) – Genentech, Inc.
    Panelist: Emma Xizhe Gao, PhD – Pfizer Inc
    Panelist: Cesar Pichardo, PhD – AstraZeneca
    Panelist: Xiaobin Li, M.S – GSK
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
    C5B - FDA’s Model Master Files: Paving the Path for Innovative Technologies and Increased Regulatory Acceptance of Modeling and Simulation Approaches
    Co-Chair: Eleftheria Tsakalozou, PhD – US FDA
    Co-Chair: Cynthia J (CJ) Musante, PhD – Pfizer, Retired
    Speaker: Timothy Nicholas, PhD – Pfizer
    Speaker: Sivacharan Kollipara, M.Pharm (he/him/his) – Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd
    General Pharmacometrics
  • 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
    C5C - Bridging Causal Inference and Pharmacometric Modeling
    Chair: Jonathan French, ScD, FISoP – Johnson & Johnson
    Speaker: James A. Rogers, PhD (he/him/his) – Metrum Research Group
    Speaker: Mats O. Karlsson, PhD, FISoP, FACCP (he/him/his) – Uppsala University
    Panelist: Francois Mercier, PhD – Roche-Genentech
    Big Data/AI/Machine Learning
  • 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM MDT
    Closing - General Session
  • 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM MDT
    ACoP 2025 Meets ACoP 2026 - Invite Only
  • Wednesday, October 22, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 8:00 AM MDT
    Coffee Service - Tutorial Sessions
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT
    T1 - Strategies for Selecting Explanatory Variables in Exposure-Response Analysis Using Machine Learning
    Co-Chair: Souvik Bhattacharya, PhD (he/him/his) – Astellas Pharma
    Co-Chair: Hu Huang, PhD (he/him/his) – Astellas Pharma
    Instructor: Jiawei Zhou, PhD (she/her/hers) – UNC-Chapel Hill
    Instructor: Ahmed Elmokadem, PhD – Metrum Research Group
    Instructor: Rajat Desikan, PhD (he/him/his) – GSK (UK)
    Instructor: Lorenzo Contento, PhD (he/him/his) – Pumas-AI Inc.
    Big Data/AI/Machine Learning
  • 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT
    T2 - Ascending New Heights with Open Systems Pharmacology Suite V12: Innovations in Model  Qualification, Model Handling, and Clinical Trial Simulation
    Chair: Stephan Schaller, PhD (he/him/his) – ESQlabs, GmbH
    Instructor: Pavel Balazki, MSc (he/him/his) – ESQlabs GmbH
    Instructor: Brian Cicali, Phd, MS – University of Florida
    QSP/ PBPK
  • 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM MDT
    STEP Tutorial: Smarter Modeling in Pharmacometrics: Leveraging R and ChatGPT for Insight and Efficiency
    Co-Chair: Ioannis (Yannis) Androulakis, PhD (he/him/his) – Rutgers University
    Co-Chair: Se Jin Kim, PharmD – University at Buffalo, SUNY
    Instructor: Thibaud Derippe, PhD – AstraZeneca
  • 10:30 AM - 10:45 AM MDT
    Coffee Service - Tutorial Sessions
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MDT
    Workshop Registration & Lunch
  • 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM MDT
    Post Workshop Registration Desk - Hours
  • 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM MDT
    ISoP Education Committee: Unlocking the Value of Physiologically-based Modeling for Small and Large Molecule Therapeutics: Hands-on modeling and simulation with open-source tools, R and PK-sim
    Instructor: Gauri Rao, PharmD, MS – University of Southern California
    Instructor: Patrick M. Glassman, PhD (he/him/his) – Temple University
    Instructor: Sharif Soleman, PharmD, MS – AbbVie
    Workshop
  • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
    Workshop Break
  • Thursday, October 23, 2025
  • 7:00 AM - 9:00 AM MDT
    Post Workshop Registration Desk - Hours
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Certara: Model-Based Meta-Analysis (MBMA): Concepts, Methodologies, and Hands-on Workshop
  • 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM MDT
    Insilico Trials: Hands-On Introduction to Clinical Trial Simulation
  • 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM MDT
    Coffee Break - Workshop
  • 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM MDT
    Lunch - Workshop
  • 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM MDT
    Coffee Break - Workshop