Terms of Reference, Membership and ReportISCB35 Vienna 2014: AGM Wed 27 Aug

ISCB Sub-CommitteeSCA

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Information Terms of Reference Members

Student Conference Award

iscb-stud-conf-awrd@googlegroups.com

1. Student conference awards are available for registered postgraduate students to attend the annual conference and present a paper.

2. The Subcommittee shall receive submissions, judge them, and administer the awards.

3. The rules and procedures are announced in a timely issue of the Newsletter and on the ISCB annual conference webpage.

Chair:

1. Ulrich Mansmann (G)

Secretary:

2. Nadine Binder (G)

Members:

3. Keith Abrams (UK)

4. Carl-Fredrik Burman (Sweden)

5. Richard Cook (Canada)

6. Katherine Lee (Australia)

7. Chris Metcalfe (UK)

8. Dimitris Rizopoulos(The Netherlands)

9.Jean-Christophe Thalabard (France)

10. Jeremy Taylor (USA)

The Subcommittee meeting was held on Wednesday, 26 August, following the last scientific session of the day, in Munich, Germany during the 2013 Annual Conference.

Nadine Binder organised an informal meeting for young scientists at Tuesday evening which was a big success (Young Researcher Get Together).

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For the 2014 Annual Conference all members participated in the evaluation and selection process.

We received 26 SCA applications: 7 applicants from the United Kindom, 5 applicants from Belgium, 3 applicants from the Netherlands, 3 applicants from Greece, 2 applicants from Germany, 1 applicant from Australia, 1 applicant from Iran, 1 applicant from Israel, 1 applicant from Italy, 1 applicant from France , 1 applicant from Sweden.

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Name Country University Title Session

Liu, Hsiao-Yin 

United Kindom

Queen Mary, University of London

Group Sequential Monitoring of Response-Adaptive Randomised Clinical Trials with Censored Survival Data

C24

Ternès, Nils 

FranceUniversite Gustave Roussy

An extension of the lasso penalization to reduce false positive selection in high-dimensional Cox models

C31

Andrinopoulou, Eleni-Rosalina 

The Netherlands

Erasmus Medical Center

Combined Dynamic Predictions using Joint Models of Multiple Longitudinal Outcomes and Competing Risk Data

C15

Robertson, David 

United Kingdom

MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge

Correcting for bias in the detection and validation of informative diagnostic tests

C35

After a review of the 26 SCA applications, the committee found four excellent contribution: