JSM 2005 Online Program

Abstract #303821

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Activity Number:	357
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Wednesday, August 10, 2005 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor:	SPAIG Committee
Abstract - #303821
Title:	The Merck/Temple Partnership: A Mutually Successful Relationship
Author(s):	Boris Iglewicz*+ and Joseph F. Heyse
Companies:	Temple University and Merck & Co., Inc.
Address:	Department of Statistics, Philadelphia, PA, 19122, United States
Keywords:	Conferences ; Pharmaceutical Industry ; Summer Internships
Abstract:	Due to the proximity between Temple's Statistics Department and many large pharmaceutical companies, a number of successful professional relationships developed. A special partnership was formed between Temple's Biostatistics Research Center and Merck's Research Laboratories. This led to a number of summer graduate student internships that resulted in the identification of interesting dissertation topics and numerous award winning PhD dissertations, most leading to successful publication in statistics journals. It also led to the creation of the successful annual Merck-Temple Conferences, the 12th having been in October 2004. These conferences attracted leading statisticians as speakers and were well-attended. We feel such partnerships will be of increased importance in the future due to the increasing complexity of drug and vaccine development requiring collaboration in development and application of novel experimental designs and methods of analysis. We will provide an overview of this successful partnership and illustrate, with cases, its mutual benefits.

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