Program

All times are in EDT.

  • 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration

  • 8:00 am – 9:00 am: Refreshment

  • 9:00 am – 9:10 am: Opening Remarks:
    • Birol Emir, ASA CT Chapter President
    • Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut
  • 9:10 am – 12:00 pm: Scientific Session I
    • 9:10 am – 9:50 am: Sheraz Khan, Pfizer
      • Automating Clinical Trial Regulatory Documents with Agentic AI: Generation and Evaluation of SAPs, CSRs, and LoTs
    • 9:50 am – 10:30 am: Yanxun Xu, Johns Hopkins University
      • Closing the Loop in Evidence Synthesis: High-Fidelity IPD Reconstruction from Kaplan-Meier Plots and Robust Inference
    • 10:30 am – 11:10 am: Jingfeng Zhang, Insilicom LLC
      • From Hallucination to Trust: Building Knowledge Graphs for Reliable and Explainable AI in Biomedical Discovery
    • 11:10 am – 11:50 am: Hussein Ezzeldin, US Food and Drug Administration
      • The FDA’s Risk-Based Regulatory Perspective on AI in Drug Development
  • 12:00 pm -– 1:00 pm: Lunch

  • 1:00 pm – 3:45 pm: Scientific Session II
    • 1:00 pm – 1:40 pm: Pending
      • Pending
    • 1:40 pm – 2:20 pm: Meizi Liu, Takeda
      • BEAM: Bayesian Hybrid Design With Adaptive Sample Size Through Multisource Exchangeability Modeling
    • 2:20 pm – 3:00 pm: Ming-Hui Chen, University of Connecticut
      • Quantifying Prior Information via Kullback-Leibler Divergence: A New Perspective on Effective Sample Size
  • 3:00 pm – 3:45 pm: Panel discussion on draft FDA guidance
    • “Use of Bayesian Methodology in Clinical Trials of Drug and Biological Products”
  • 3:45 pm – 4:00 pm: Closing Remarks: Junxian Geng, ASA CT Chapter Vice President