2015 FALL - Opportunities in Translational Science Biopharma R&D including Information Management, Analysis and Visualization
DATE, LOCATION & HOST
The 2015 fall PRISME Forum Technical Meeting was held Thursday, the 19th of November, 2015 and was hosted by Bristol-Myers Squibb at its Plainsboro Campus located at 777 Scudders Mill Road, Plainsboro Township, NJ 08536.
The meeting was preceded by a networking reception the evening of Wednesday, the 18th of November.
PRISME Forum Technical Meeting Chair:
Martin Leach, Alexion
PRISME Forum Chair:
Olivier Gien, Sanofi
FALL 2015 TECH MEETING
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Meeting hosted by Bristol-Myers Squibb
Opportunities for Translational Science in Biopharma R&D Including Information Management, Analysis and Visualisation
Translational Science is a discipline often described as the rapid iteration of learnings from bench to bedside. Those learnings encompass activities such as disease understanding, target identification and credentialing, biomarker research and patient stratification. Translational Science is seen as one of the key levers in pharma’s search for this R&D productivity goal and self-evidently, Translational Science Information Management, Analysis and Visualisation is a key supporting discipline. This PRISME Forum Technical Meeting will set out the current situation in TS Information Management, Analysis and Visualisation and then explore where improvements are needed and how these improvements might be effected. Furthermore, priorities will be assigned to these improvements bearing in mind scientific need and technical feasibility. Additionally, the meeting will review how the PRISME Forum might stimulate new project ideas within this domain for an IMI-2 or indeed other consortium-based initiatives. A PRISME Forum Technical Meeting Advisory Committee (TMAC) has been set up to provide guidance on agenda topics and appropriately qualified speakers. The committee members are listed below:
Anastasia Christianson | BMS | Head of Translational R&D IT |
Jasmin Saric | Boehringer-Ingelheim | Head of IT Translational Science & Epidemiology |
John Wise | PRISME Forum | Programme Coordinator |
Lars Greiffenberg | Abbvie | Director – R&D IT and Translational Informatics |
Martin Leach | Alexion | VP, R&D IT |
Sandor Szalma | Janssen | Head, Translational Informatics & External Innovation |
The PRISME Forum Technical Meeting Advisory Committee will be looking for qualified speakers to address relevant topics including:
- Use cases demonstrating how TS and its associated technologies have enhanced bio-pharma R&D
- New TS technologies – empowering new insights and services – thereby lowering the barrier to entry to bio-pharma R&D
- Future directions for TS including the exploitation of “big data”
- The integration of TS data across multiple platforms including traditional enterprise systems
- Experiences and examples from suppliers of TS technologies that either directly – or by analogy – will provide opportunities for R&D and R&D IT.
- The need for better access to better ontology for better description of translational science phenomena
PRISME Forum members will:
- Enhance their understanding of translational science and the opportunities for R&D IT to support and develop that discipline
- Take back to their parent organizations tactical learnings that can be deployed quickly to support translational science and,
- As a stretch goal identify a common, pre-competitive obstacles that can best be palliated or cured by a cross-company, inter-disciplinary project team working under that umbrella of a grant awarding organization such as the IMI.
For more information or for any suggestions, please get in touch with John Wise, Programme Coordinator for the PRISME Forum on jcmwise@prismeforum.org or +44 7768 173518.
TIME | SESSION | SPEAKER/CHAIR |
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Wednesday, Nov 18, 2015 |
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18:45 | Gather in hotel lobby for departure to PRISME Forum (Business + Technical) Group Reception | |
Thursday, Nov 19, 2015 |
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8:00 | Shuttle transfer between hotel and meeting venue | |
8:30 | Check-in; poster installation | |
8:45 | Welcome Notes | Olivier Gien, Chair, PRISME Forum; Global Head, Clinical IT, Sanofi |
8:50 | Introduction | Martin Leach, Technical Meeting Chair, PRISME Forum; VP, R&D IT, Alexion |
9:00 | SESSION 1: PERSPECTIVES | Martin Leach, Technical Meeting Chair, PRISME Forum; VP, R&D IT, Alexion |
9:00 | L1 Translational Science: the Importance in Biopharma R&D | Mike Burgess, Head of Exploratory Clinical and Translational Research, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
9:30 | L2 Converting Available Data into Useful Information in the Omics Era | George Davey-Smith, Professor, University of Bristol |
10:00 | L3 Big Data and Translational Research at Google-Scale | Vik Bajaj, Chief Scientist, Google Life Sciences |
10:30 | Coffee Break | |
11:00 | SESSION 2: LIGHTNING TALKS | Martin Leach, Technical Meeting Chair, PRISME Forum; VP, R&D IT, Alexion |
11:00 | LT1 Genotype-Phenotype Data Driving Medical Discovery and Patient Management | Joe Donahue, Senior Vice President, BioReference Laboratories |
11:10 | LT2 Stratifying Tumor Genomic Alteration Landscapes Through Comprehensive Analytics | Eric Neumann, Vice President of Knowledge Informatics, Foundation Medicine |
11:20 | LT3 Using Machine Learning and Expert Human Guidance to Automate Clinical Data Integration to CDISC Standards | Timothy Danford, Software Engineer, Tamr, Inc. |
11:30 | MODERATED PANEL DISCUSSION - Q&A | |
12:00 | SESSION 3a: POSTERS (Intro) | CHAIR: Lars Greiffenberg, Director, R&D IT and Translational Informatics, Abbvie |
12:05 | Poster Session (Three 15 minute rotations) | |
P1 Power of Reverse Engineering and Forward Simulation Platform for Driving Precision Medicine | Iya Khalil, Executive Vice President and Co-Founder, GNS Healthcare | |
P2 Data Integration Challenges and Opportunities in Translational R&D | Albert Wang, Associate Director, Exploratory Clinical & Translational Research IT, Bristol-Myers Squibb | |
P3 Translational Science: Current Information Challenges and Solutions | Phil Scordis, Director, Translational Bioinformatics, UCB | |
P4 Harness Patient Preference from Social Media | Mark Wolff, Consultant, SAS Institute | |
P5 Translational R&D Analytics: Powering Data-Driven Advances in Immunotherapy | Kaushal Desai, Associate Director, Translational R&D Analytics and Decision-Support, Bristol-Myers Squibb | |
P6 TranSMART & eTRIKS – Current Status | Jay Bergeron, Director, Translational and Bioinformatics, Pfizer | |
12:50 | Lunch |
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13:30 | SESSION 3b: POSTERS | CHAIR: Lars Greiffenberg, Director, R&D IT and Translational Informatics, Abbvie |
Poster Session (Remaining three 15 min rotations) | ||
14:15 | SESSION 4: PLENARY PRESENTATIONS | CHAIR: Anastasia Christianson, Head of Translational R&D IT, Bristol-Myers Squibb |
14:15 | L4 Linked Data at Work in Translational Science | Hans Constandt, CEO and Co-Founder, ontoforce |
15:15 | Coffee Break Preparations for SESSION VI: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER Table Captains: Sandor Szalma, Jasmin Saric, Jay Bergeron and Lars Greiffenberg will meet to frame the structure of the session. A slide to provide clear instructions for the round-table discussion groups will be created. |
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15:45 | SESSION 5: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION | CHAIR: Jasmin Saric, Head of IT Translational Science & EpidemiologyBoehringer-Ingelheim |
15:45 | Keynote Lecture A Different Industry Perspective on Multiple Input Data Analytics | Tara Grabowsky, Chief Medical Officer, Vencore Oodaye Shukla, Chief Data Scientist, Vencore |
16:15 | SESSION 6: BRINGING IT ALL TOGETHER | CHAIR: Sandor Szalma, Head, Translational Informatics & External Innovation, Janssen Research & Development LLC |
16:15 | Objective Create a preliminary draft of a topic proposal for review by the IMI DKM SGG or another relevant project organising body. Breakouts The audience will be divided in four groups. The table captains listed above will coordinate the groups’ review, consideration and drafting advice for the next steps (on the basis of the day’s proceedings and the instructions displayed on the big screen). |
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17:00 | Plenary: Table Captains' Feedback | |
17:15 | Plenary: Discussion of readout; Determine next steps | |
17:30 | Awards | Martin Leach, Technical Meeting Chair, PRISME Forum; VP, R&D IT, Alexion |
17:45 | Networking Reception | |
19:30 | Return to Hotel |
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