Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September, 2025
The 26th annual Population Approach Group in Australia and New Zealand (PAGANZ) meeting will take place in Singapore! The meeting will be co-hosted by our colleagues at the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, on Friday 19th to Sunday 21st September, immediately prior to the 2025 IATDMCT Congress. We warmly invite you to join us as we connect our Australian, Asian and international based pharmacometrics communities in the vibrant city of Singapore!
Registration and abstract submission is now open! To register, please click here.
To submit your abstract, please click here.
Abstract submission closes at 17:00 EAST Wednesday, April 9th 2025. Authors will be notified of the outcome by Monday 14th April 2025. Registrations close on 1 September 2025.
Discounted PAGANZ registrations, inclusive of both workshops and scientific program, is provided for those PAGANZ members attending both PAGANZ and IATDMCT. PAGANZ student members may be eligible to apply for financial support to attend this meeting. See prizes-and-scholarships for more detail.
Scientific program
The scientific program will take place from midday on Saturday September 20th 2025 and will end in the afternoon on Sunday September 21st 2025. We aim to feature a full day of engaging pharmacometrics research, including our ISoP keynote speaker.
Population analysis workshops (PAWs)
As usual, we will offer Beginners and Intermediate workshops. These will begin on Friday September 19th 2025. The workshops will consist of lectures and hands-on exercises at a computer. During the hands-on exercises, tutors will be available for consultation and assistance. The Beginners workshop for NONMEM and the Intermediate workshop will be conducted as parallel sessions.
The Beginners workshop will introduce the theory and practice of population modelling with NONMEM. Attendance at the Intermediate workshop requires experience with the conduct of at least one population approach analysis.
2025 Intermediate PAWS:
Our 2025 Intermediate PAWS will involve two topics.
Day 1: Exploring complex absorption model in NONMEM, facilitated by Professor Steve Duffull from Certara. This workshop will cover material spanning first order, sequential, and delayed to sum of inverse Gaussian models. All code will be available to participants.
Day 2: Essential Communication Skills for Pharmacometricians, facilitated by Dr Stacey Tannenbaum.
Pharmacometrics is used to support rational and data-driven decision making, but often the impact of our modelling is lost, not because our technical work isn’t good, but because of our inability to convey the relevant information to decision makers. This interactive workshop will cover critical soft skills for all pharmacometricians to ensure that our important work is understood, appreciated, and utilized!
Please note: We will be running both of the PAWS as BYO (bring-your-own) device. You will require your own working installation of NONMEM and R. Meeting attendees will be able to download a NONMEM installation and a temporary license associated with the meeting closer to the time. We recommend you use R Studio with your R installation, which is available through most Universities and is discounted for researchers. More information on this to follow.
2025 ISoP Speaker: Dr Stacey Tannenbaum, PhD, FISoP is currently on sabbatical, but was most recently Vice President of Scientific Engagement at Metrum Research Group
Stacey has more than 20 years of Modeling and Simulation experience in Pharma, first at Novartis and then Astellas; during her last 5 years at Astellas she was the lead of the US Pharmacometrics group. Stacey completed her BSE in Biomedical Engineering at Duke University, and her PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Applied Mathematics at the University of Arizona, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at the Center for Drug Development Science at Georgetown University. She holds faculty positions at the University of Arizona, University of the Pacific, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Stacey has had significant impact on the global Pharmacometrics community by co-founding the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP), serving as its first President, and sits on a number of ISoP committees and interest groups including being the previous chair of the Statistics and Pharmacometrics Special Interest Group. She received the ISoP Fellowship in 2014 and Leadership Award in 2018. Stacey co-founded the American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP) and was conference chair for the first three events. She was a co-founder of the local networking group Modeling and Simulation Applications in Clinical Pharmacotherapy (MoSAiC) and is the Executive Committee chair for the World Conference on Pharmacometrics (WCoP). She served as a board member of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), chaired the AAPS M&S Focus Group, and was the co-chair for the AAPS Forum for Connecting Predictive Modelers. She is also the chair elect of the Quantitative Pharmacology Network at the American Society of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT).
Social Program
A casual social event will be held near to the conference venue (BII, A*STAR) on the Saturday evening (20th September). Tickets for this event are now available. More detail on to follow.
Who should attend?
The PAGANZ meeting is the Australasian forum for scientists with a research and professional interest in the use of the population approach in pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. A strong focus of this meeting is the application of population modelling and simulation techniques in the experimental, clinical and regulatory settings of drug development.
This meeting is designed for scientists and clinicians working in basic or clinical pharmacology research, pharmaceutical industry, regulatory bodies and postgraduate students. The meeting combines a hands-on workshop given by leaders in the field and a scientific meeting giving researchers the opportunity to present and discuss their own work. Our 2025 meeting will be different from our typical, Australasia-based meeting in that it will be held in Singapore. This will allow our community to engage with our colleagues in Asia, as well as those attending IATDMCT.
Location
The 2025 meeting will be co-hosted by the Bioinformatics Institute (BII), A*STAR, in the Matrix building, located at 30 Biopolis St, Singapore 138671. The Matrix building is near to a metro line, close to the NUS campus and around 30 minutes via metro from the center of Singapore. The closest Metro link is the Buona Vista MRT (exit D): approx 7 min walk. You can download additional information on accessing the Matrix building here.
Note: This location is approximately 30 min away from the IATDMCT congress venue (Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel) by taking the 970 bus route. Alternative routes include by MRT (~39 min) or taxi (~14 min). For more information on IATDMCT congress location and program, please visit the IATDMCT 2025 congress website. The PAGANZ program will be finishing with sufficient time for attendees to travel across to the IATDMCT scientific program venue.
Local Organising Committee
Co-Chairs: Associate Professor Daniel Wright1,2, & Dr Janice Goh3
Associate Professor Jacqueline Hannam4
Mr Austin Tan5,6
1) Sydney Pharmacy School, University of Sydney, Sydney
2) Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
3) Bioinformatics Institute, A*STAR, Singapore
4) Department of Pharmacology & Clinical Pharmacology, The University of Auckland, Auckland
5) Department of Pharmacy, The National University of Singapore, Singapore
6) Eli Lilly and Company, Singapore
With thanks to our cohosts and sponsors!
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