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IInternational SSociety for CClinical News BBiostatistics Number 52 December 2011 Editor: David W. Warne Executive Committee 2012 Editorial Officers: ISCB 32 in Ottawa, Canada was one of my most President: Harbajan Chadha-Boreham (CH) enjoyable conferences. Despite many things to organise, there was still time to appreciate the Vice-President: Koos Zwinderman (NL) scientific and social programmes and familiarise Secretary, News Editor: David W. Warne (CH) myself with a really beautiful, bilingual capital city. Treasurer: KyungMann Kim (US) Preparations for ISCB 33 in Bergen, Norway Members: have been in progress for a long time now, and the organisers are full of enthusiasm to continue the Webmaster: Ingrid Sofie Harbo (DK) best of our conferences’ traditions whilst trying a Michal Abrahamowicz (CA) few innovations. I’m sure it’s going to be another Lucinda Billingham (GB) memorable conference. In this issue you’ll also find tributes from Lutz Krisztina Boda (HU) Edler and others to our Past President Norbert Tomasz Burzykowski (BE) Victor who passed away in April 2011. As I read it, I was surprised to see what a broad of experience Lutz Edler (DE) and interests Norbert had, which helps explain Catherine Legrand (BE) what a pleasure it was working with him. Saskia Le Cessie (NL) Other articles of interest include: the President’s message, the annual National Groups’ reports, a Zdenek Valenta (CZ) report on the recent Szeged conference, a first warning that the 2012 ISCB elections are approaching, and a report on our new honorary WWW and Email Addresses member, Hans van Houwelingen. Thanks to the contributors to this News: Jenő www: www.iscb.info Reiczigel, Zorana Bizetic, Anca Vitcu, Diana Permanent Office: office@ iscb.info Lungeanu, Ewa Kawalec, Zdenek Valenta, Julia Book Review Editor: slarroque.iscbbooks@ yahoo.fr Singer, Geir Egil Eide, Odd Aalen, Tim Ramsay, Correspondence Address Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, Lutz Edler, Koos Zwinderman, Ulrich Mansmann and Zdenek ISCB News Editor David W. Warne Valenta, Elisabeth Svensson, Sylvain Larroque and email: david_w_warne@ bluewin.ch the book reviewers, and Rita Schou of the ISCB Office. National Group Representatives/Deputies 2012 Subcommittee Chairs/Secretaries 2012 Czech Zdenek Valenta [zdenek.valenta@ fulbrightmail.org] Conf. Organising: Lutz Edler (DE), David W. Warne (CH) Rep.: Marek Maly [mmaly@ szu.cz] Education: Catherine Quantin (FR), Poland: Ewa Kawalec [mxkawale@ cyf-kr.edu.pl] Jeno Reiczigel (HU) Krystyna Szafraniec [mygomola@ cyf-kr.edu.pl] Epidemiology: Vana Sypsa (GR), Marie Reilly (SE) Walerian Piotrowski [walekpio@ ikard.waw.pl] Membership: David W. Warne (CH), tbd Hungary: Jeno Reiczigel [reiczigel.jeno@ gmail.com] National Groups: Zdenek Valenta (CZ), Anca Vitcu (RO) Krisztina Boda [boda.krisztina@ med.u-szeged.hu] Regulatory Affairs: Christoph Gerlinger (DE), Serbia Zorana Bizetic [zorana@ ncrc.ac.rs] Christos Nakas (GR) Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic [naca@ pharmacy.bg.ac.rs] Student Conf. Ulrich Mansmann (DE), Nadine Binder Romania Anca Vitcu [avitcu@ yahoo.com] Awards: (Grambauer) (DE) Anca Ignat [ancai@info.uaic.ro] Vaccines: Allen Izu (US), Jennifer Nelson (US) Index ISCB Membership............................................................................ 2 Serbian National Group Report ...................................................... 34 ISCB President’s End of Year Message..............................................3 Polish National Group Report......................................................... 35 National Groups SC: Thank You Julia Singer ...................................3 Czech Republic National Group Report........................................... 35 ISCB32 Ottawa 2011: AGM Report................................................... 4 Hungarian National Group Report.................................................. 35 Honorary Memberships.................................................................. 19 Advertisement: MPS (Lancaster, UK)............................................... 36 Norbert Victor: A Tribute................................................................ 20 ISCB Membership Update.............................................................. 36 ISCB32 Ottawa 2011: Finale.......................................................... 23 ISCB GENERAL INFORMATION ..................................................... 37 ISCB32 Ottawa 2011: Finale 2 ....................................................... 24 Advertising Rates........................................................................... 37 ISCB33 Bergen, Norway: 19-23 August 2012.................................. 25 Society’s Aims ............................................................................... 37 ISCB33 Bergen 2012: Student Conference Awards (SCA) ................ 27 Changes of Address or Email ......................................................... 37 ISCB33 Bergen 2012: Conference Awards for Scientists (CAS)......... 27 Information on Submitting Articles................................................. 37 Books for Review by Sylvain Larroque ............................................ 28 ISCB Office & Executive Committee: Contact Details....................... 38 Book Review by Jan Kalina (CZ) ..................................................... 30 ISCB Membership and Googlegroups Emailing Lists ....................... 39 Elections for the Executive Committee 2013-14: Early Warning! ..... 31 ISCB Subcommittees: Contact Details ............................................ 40 Book Review by Matthew Sperrin (GB)............................................ 32 ISCB Membership Information ....................................................... 42 Szeged Conference 2011 ................................................................ 33 ISCB Membership Subscription ..................................................... 43 Romanian National Group Report .................................................. 33 Calendar ....................................................................................... 44 ISCB Membership Welcome to the 247 new members who joined ISCB by attending ISCB32 in Ottawa. Please renew your membership using the form sent with this News! end end Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Dec Nov Nov Nov Nov Nov Dec Nov Dec Jun Dec *=host of Conference 89 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 11 Total 261 596 715 698 725 702 685 729 818 797 837 825 756 758 620 808 800 921 862 880 517 864 # Countries 23 32 32 31 33 34 37 37 41 40 45 41 40 38 39 40 41 42 39 42 34 41 1. UK 50 90 176* 120 144 121 128 169* 135 151 153 141 190* 140 109 133 117 114 124 114 45 99 2. USA 18 45 40 39 41 40 79* 66 76 77 89 78 75 57 51 67 62 74 67 64 40 93 3. Poland [NatGrp] 11 11 24 24 30 21 19 26 34 37 41 41 43 40 49 54 62 66 71 73 78 4. Canada 6 12 14 14 11 13 15 14 9 9 10 14 16 8 12 12 19 22 18 18 10* 68* 5. Romania [NatGrp] 2 4 1 1 1 19 21 30 28 30 31 36 2 65 67 6. Germany 30 67 75 84 71 78 72 70 186* 90 87 77 61 57 51 73 48 59 72 61 40 53 7. Hungary [NatGrp] 1 21 17 18 19 25* 27 29 29 33 34 41 48 42 38* 50 44 43 44 42 48 48 8. France 30 52 62 50 73 67 52 52 49 53 37 93* 31 41 30 57 41 49 49 119* 12 48 9. Denmark 4 58* 38 31 30 32 26 35 38 39 36 46 41 37 37 40 34 154* 54 60 28 39 10. Netherlands 14* 30 38 33 36 29 31 39 35 33 38 39 33 87* 35 44 41 39 49 56 21 38 11. Czech Rep. [NatGrp] 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 17 36 28 44* 30 29 30 12. Belgium 13 22 27 30 30 32 35 29 25 33 36 33 23 27 24 23 32 33 33 32 18 24 13. Japan 2 6 7 5 7 4 10 13 20 12 11 10 10 10 17 17 27 20 26 24 6 22 14. Australia 6 9 11 6 9 8 11 9 10 12 8 9 14 8 6 11 11 10 13 18 10 17 15. Switzerland 14 25 22 80* 33 29 24 25 23 18 23 26 22 23 23 55* 28 26 28 30 15 15 16. Serbia [NatGrp] 2 3 13 17. Norway 13 18 25 22 12 18 10 10 11 10 16 16 12 14 12 13 12 19 21 15 10 15 18. Sweden 23 51 53 54 58 64 51 45 38 44 88* 50 36 34 24 23 19 27 19 18 9 12 19. Austria 4 9 11 13 11 16 13 11 15 18 15 13 16 17 15 14 16 17 15 15 7 9 20. Italy 16 33 37 32 32 33 26 33 26 63* 29 25 15 25 15 23 24 20 10 15 4 8 21. India 111111112122322344328 22. Finland 2 7 7 9 9 9 7 5 10 9 18 11 7 11 10 6 8 8 9 8 4 6 23. Slovenia 1 2 3211 3 2 121 2 3345 5 43 46 24. Iran 11 114135121 6 25. Greece 111 113161223 50* 5 7 7 1 5 26. SouthKorea 3 1 1 1666 5 27. Spain 10 12 18 12 46* 23 14 16 12 11 11 8 7 15 5 9 8 5 14 14 2 4 28. SouthAfrica 1 4 1322 2 2 233 3 2333 2 5 2 1 4 29. Taiwan 1 1 1 1 1 1 3 7 4 1 3 30. NewZealand 1 1 212 223331222521 13 31. Singapore 364585724624 113 32. Malaysia 212211111332112322 33. Israel 1 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 10 13 10 7 8 3 4 2 2 1 2 2 2 34. Portugal 1 3 5 2 2 2 2 5 5 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 2 6 2 7 1 2 35. Brazil 2 1 11112 36. China 11233333332 2 2 37. Slovakia 1 12222111 38. Turkey 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 7 2 3 1 39. Egypt 1 1 40. Qatar 1 41. Luxembourg 1 1 42. Algeria 2 43. Mexico 11111122211 1 1 44. Estonia 21111 1 45. Vietnam 1 46. Cuba 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 47. Indonesia 1 1 1 48. Pakistan 1 1 1 1 49. Kenya 1 1 1 50. Ireland 12343442323 11 2 51. Russia 13332214321111 52. SriLanka 111 53. Bangladesh 1 54. United Arab Emirates 1 1 55. Chile 1 56. Thailand 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 57. Saudi Arabia 1 1 58. Malawi 111 59. Colombia 1 1 1 1 60. Croatia 1 1 1 61. Gambia 1 62. Lithuania 2 63. Argentina 1 64. Kuwait 1 1 65. Sudan 1 66. Ukraine 1 1 67. Philippines 1 68. Zimbabwe 1 69. Oman 1 ISCB News #52 Page 2 December 2011 ISCB President’s End of Year Message From Harbajan Chadha-Boreham December 2011 marks the end of my first busy with multitude of tasks, including year as ISCB President.

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