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Uppsala Pharmacometrics Summer School 2025

Available 2025-01-22 – 2025-03-25
Contact person Zhe Huang, employed at Pharmacometrics Research Group
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Course information

The Pharmacometrics Research Group at Uppsala University is happy to invite PhD students from all around the world to the 13th Uppsala Pharmacometrics Summer School (UPSS).

Dates: August 11th-22nd, 2025
Place: Uppsala, Sweden

Intended for: PhD students (at the time of the Summer School).

Topics: The first week will focus on covariate model building, and the second week will focus on PKPD modeling of continuous and categorical data in NONMEM 7.

Program: Lectures, hands-on sessions, student group work, and student presentations.

Instructors: Mats O. Karlsson and colleagues.

Prerequisites:
1) Previous experience with the NONMEM software.
2) Students will be asked to submit an abstract of an analysis problem they are currently working on or planning to start in the near future.
3) Students will also be required to present a poster based on this abstract.

Group work examples: During each course week, two days will be devoted to working with real data examples brought by the participants. This has been an appreciated component, both by the students who have brought the examples and the other group members who get to expand their hands-on experience. For these exercises, we ask applicants if they have examples with data that can be used and thus temporarily shared with fellow students in the group.

Fee: Free of charge (transport, accommodation, and food are not included).

Traveling grant: Pharmacometrics Africa has provided travel grants that can be applied for by students from African universities. Pharmetheus travel grants cover travelling costs for PhD students enrolled at universities in developing countries. You can apply for these grants in the summer school application form (posted below).

Maximum number of participants: 30

Application deadline: March 24th, 2025

Contact: zhe.huang@uu.se and youjung.cho@uu.se (please include both Emails in correspondence).

Extra: A block of rooms at a suitably located hostel (http://www.vandrarhemuppsala.se/en/) will be reserved for course participants, and a social program will be proposed.

For more information:
About Uppsala: http://www.destinationuppsala.se/
About Uppsala University: http://www.uu.se/en
About the Uppsala Pharmacometrics group: http://www.farmaci.uu.se/research/pharmacometrics/
About UPSS: http://www.farmaci.uu.se/research/pharmacometrics/UPSS/

Application

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I fulfil the stated prerequisites, and would like to attend UPSS 2025 - Required
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Registration date as a PhD student - Required
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Expected (or actual) PhD defence date - Required
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Academic supervisor - Required
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Supervisor email - Required
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Supervisor affiliation (University/Department) - Required
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Prior experience working with NONMEM - Required
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Please list if you have any relevant communications (posters, articles, presentations etc.) for pharmacometric-related research only. Please provide abstract/conference links if possible. Plain text only. - Required
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Abstract of the analysis problem to present as a poster in UPSS (mandatory parts: background, data, aim(s), intended methods, current results). Plain text only (not exceeding 4,500 characters). - Required
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I will be able to bring an analysis problem and related dataset to work with during the course group projects (you would need to be able to share this data temporarily with students in your group) - Required
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If yes, please provide a short description of the dataset related to your analysis problem. (e.g. number of IDs/observations/DV type/covariates) - Required
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I am a registered PhD student at a university in a developing country and I want to apply for the Pharmetheus travel grant - Required
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If yes, indicate how your attendance will benefit both your own personal scientific development and the research. Plain text only.
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I am a registered PhD student at an African university, and I want to apply for the Pharmacometrics Africa traveling grant - Required
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If yes, indicate how your attendance will benefit both your own personal scientific development and the research. Plain text only.
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N.B. For those who got selected to attend UPSS 2025, follow-up information will be shared on the available accommodation options, for those of you interested. Based on last year's rates the price range was 325-599 sek/night/person