April 6, 2010
Hands-On NONMEM Workshop
Jill Fiedler-Kelly, vice president and chief scientific officer of Cognigen Corporation, presented a 3-day introductory workshop in population PK data analysis from Thursday May 13 through Saturday May 15, 2010. The workshop was geared to pharmaceutical and biotech industry scientists and to advanced graduate students in pharmaceutics and clinical pharmacology who had little or no modeling experience.
This workshop, given in conjunction with the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, provided a comprehensive understanding of the population PK approach to data analysis using formal lectures; review of data, code, and data analysis results; and hands-on exercises. Participants learned how to code control streams, interpret the NONMEM output, and evaluate model results at individual computer terminals with assistance from the instructors. In addition, participants received a full set of lecture notes and a USB flash drive loaded with a PERSPECTIVE Hypertext Data Analysis Map containing a fully documented pharmacometric modeling project, including control streams for more than 60 different models.
Fiedler-Kelly is adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB and is in her 10th year of presenting the workshop in conjunction with UB. “Even though the essence of the material has not changed dramatically over the years,” says Fiedler-Kelly, “Each time I teach the course, I get new insight from my interactions with participants and the questions they ask. I use real-life examples based on my work at Cognigen, and the practical nature of the lectures, anecdotes, and tips that I embed throughout the material exemplify my Cognigen experience.”
Fiedler-Kelly also teaches a graduate-level course at UB on population pharmacokinetic–pharmacodynamic modeling in which students learn the theory and application of the population approach.
The 3-day workshop preceded Pharmacokinetic–Pharmacodynamic Modeling: Concepts and Applications, a workshop presented by William J. Jusko, PhD, distinguished professor and chair of pharmaceutical sciences in the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB and director of the Center of Excellence in Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics.
The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at UB is considered one of the top departments in the world in pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and biopharmaceutics.
