International Society for Clinical News Biostatistics Number 45 June 2008 Editor: David W. Warne Executive Committee 2007-08 Editorial Officers It’s not long until 2008’s conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, and this issue contains lots of information about President: Emmanuel Lesaffre (B) the conference from Philip Hougaard and Bjarne Nielsen. Vice-President: Norbert Victor (D) Next year’s conference will take place in Prague in Secretary: Harbajan Chadha-Boreham (CH) the Czech Republic and there’s an update from Zdenek Valenta. Treasurer: Koos Zwinderman (NL) John Whitehead has prepared a list of positions which will need to be filled for 2009-10, so please do consider Members volunteering to serve on the ExCom. The deadline is the end News Editor: David W. Warne (CH) of August. As announced at last year’s AGM and in the Webmaster: Bjarne Nielsen (DK) December News, we are planning to revise the Constitution: the proposed changes were placed on the Society’s website for 2007-08: Adriano Decarli (I) consultation and review from January-February 2008 and KyungMann Kim (USA) were generally considered to be a good idea. They will be put Rumana Omar (UK) to the membership for approval later this year at the same time as the postal vote for the ExCom. Catherine Quantin (F) Thanks to the contributors to this News: Emmanuel Jenö Reiczigel (H) Lesaffre, Harbajan Chadha-Boreham, Julia Singer, KyungMann Kim, Mike Campbell and Rumana Omar, Koos Marie Reilly (S) Zwinderman, John Whitehead, Sylvain Larroque, Bjarne Martin Schumacher (D) Nielsen, Philip Hougaard, Andrew Dunning, Ewa Kawalec, Vana Sypsa (GR) Zdenek Valenta and the 6 book reviewers. WWW and Email Addresses Correspondence Address www: http://www.iscb.info ISCB News Editor David W. Warne Permanent Office: office@ iscb.info Home: Chemin du Petit-Bel-Air 115, CH-1226 Thônex, Switzerland. Book Review Editor: sylvain.larroque@ merckserono.net david_w_warne@ bluewin.ch National Group Representatives, Deputies Subcommittee Chairs Czech Rep.: Zdenek Valenta [valenta@ euromise.cz] Conference Organising: Harbajan Chadha-Boreham (CH) Marek Maly [mmaly@ szu.cz] Education: Rumana Omar (UK) Poland: Ewa Kawalec [mxkawale@ cyf-kr.edu.pl] Piotr Jurkowski [jurkomal@ atr.bydgoszcz.pl] Membership: Emmanuel Lesaffre (B) Walerian Piotrowski [walekpio@ ikard.waw.pl] National Groups: Julia Singer (A) Romania: Cornelia Enachescu [cenachescu@ gmail.com] Regulatory Affairs: Jørgen Seldrup (F) Eugenia Badescu [ebadescu@ k.ro] Student Conf. Awards: KyungMann Kim (USA) Hungary: Jeno Reiczigel [reiczigel.jeno@ gmail.com] Krisztina Boda [boda@ dmi.u-szeged.hu] Index ISCB Membership ..................................................... 2 Czech National Group: Update ................................ 29 ISCB President’s Mid-Year Update............................. 3 ISCB30: Prague, Czech Republic: Update ................ 29 ISCB29 Copenhagen 2008: AGM Agenda................... 3 Book Review by Sada Nand Dwivedi (India) ............. 30 ISCB Constitution: Proposed Revisions ..................... 3 Book Review by Tim Friede (UK) .............................. 31 ISCB29 Copenhagen 2008: Conference Awards for Book Review by Marek Brabec (Czech Republic) ...... 31 Scientists (CAS)............................................... 5 Book Review by Gaj Vidmar (Slovenia)..................... 32 ISCB29 Copenhagen 2008: Student Conference ISCB GENERAL INFORMATION .............................. 33 Awards (SCA) .................................................. 5 Advertising Rates .................................................... 33 Book Review by Herwig Friedl (Austria) ..................... 6 Society’s Aims......................................................... 33 ISCB Education SC: Course Report ........................... 7 Changes of Address or Email................................... 33 ISCB Financial Update from the Treasurer ................ 8 Information on Submitting Articles ......................... 33 Book Review by Andreas Ziegler (Germany) ............. 10 ISCB Office and Executive Committee: Contact Elections for the Executive Committee 2009-10: Details .......................................................... 34 Final Warning! .............................................. 11 ISCB Membership and Googlegroups Emailing Lists 35 Books for Review by Sylvain Larroque ..................... 12 ISCB Subcommittees: Contact Details..................... 36 ISCB29: Copenhagen, Denmark: Draft Programme.. 14 ISCB Membership Information ................................ 38 Formation of a New Subcommittee on Vaccines....... 27 ISCB Membership Subscription .............................. 39 Polish National Group: Update ................................ 27 Calendar................................................................. 40 Book Review by Denis Enachescu (Romania)........... 28 ISCB Membership If you joined ISCB by attending ISCB28 in Alexandroupolis, but haven’t renewed your subscription for 2008, this will be your last News. Please renew using the form at the end of this News. end end Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Dec Nov Nov Dec Nov Nov Nov Nov May Nov May *=host of Conference 89 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 07 08 Total 261 596 715 698 725 702 685 729 818 797 837 825 756 758 620 808 448 800 413 # Countries 23 32 32 31 33 34 37 37 41 40 45 41 40 38 39 40 33 41 34 1. Poland [NatGrp] 11 11 24 24 30 21 19 26 34 37 41 41 43 40 49 53 54 57 2. UK 50 90 176* 120 144 121 128 169* 135 151 153 141 190* 140 109 133 51 117 46 3. Hungary [NatGrp] 1 21 17 18 19 25* 27 29 29 33 34 41 48 42 38* 50 43 44 43 4. Romania [NatGrp] 2 4 1 1 1 19 21 30 28 30 30 30 5. USA 18 45 40 39 41 40 79* 66 76 77 89 78 75 57 51 67 39 62 29 6. Czech. Rep. [NatGrp] 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 3 17 36 36 28 7. Germany 30 67 75 84 71 78 72 70 186* 90 87 77 61 57 51 73 30 48 26 8. Denmark 4 58* 38 31 30 32 26 35 38 39 36 46 41 37 37 40 25 34 24* 9. France 30 52 62 50 73 67 52 52 49 53 37 93* 31 41 30 57 12 41 18 10. Belgium 13 22 27 30 30 32 35 29 25 33 36 33 23 27 24 23 12 32 17 11. Netherlands 14* 30 38 33 36 29 31 39 35 33 38 39 33 87* 35 44 17 41 13 12. Switzerland 14 25 22 80* 33 29 24 25 23 18 23 26 22 23 23 55* 19 28 12 13. Sweden 23 51 53 54 58 64 51 45 38 44 88* 50 36 34 24 23 12 19 10 14. Canada 6 12 14 14 11 13 15 14 9 9 10 14 16 8 12 12 9 19 9 15. Italy 16 33 37 32 32 33 26 33 26 63* 29 25 15 25 15 23 6 24 6 16. Japan 2 6 7 5 7 4 10 13 20 12 11 10 10 10 17 17 8 27 5 17. Austria 4 9 11 13 11 16 13 11 15 18 15 13 16 17 15 14 9 16 5 18. Norway 13 18 25 22 12 18 10 10 11 10 16 16 12 14 12 13 8 12 5 19. Australia 6 9 11 6 9 8 11 9 10 12 8 9 14 8 6 11 6 11 5 20. Finland 2 7 7 9 9 9 7 5 10 9 18 11 7 11 10 6 4 8 5 21. India 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 2 3 2 2 2 3 3 22. Greece 1 1 1 1 1 3 1 6 1 2 2 3 2* 50* 2 23. Spain 10 12 18 12 46* 23 14 16 12 11 11 8 7 15 5 9 2 8 2 24. Slovenia 1 2 3 2 1 1 3 2 1 2 1 2 3 3 4 3 5 2 25. Slovakia 1 1 2 2 2 2 26. Iran 1 1 1 1 4 1 3 1 5 1 27. South Africa 1 4 1 3 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 2 3 3 1 3 1 28. Israel 1 3 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 10 13 10 7 8 3 4 1 2 1 29. New Zealand 1 1 2 1 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 2 2 1 2 1 30. Portugal 1 3 5 2 2 2 2 5 5 3 4 3 3 1 1 1 2 1 31. Malaysia 2 1 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 3 3 2 1 1 1 32. Russia 1 3 3 3 2 2 1 4 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 33. Brazil 2 1 1 34. Cuba 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 35. Turkey 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 36. Singapore 3 6 4 5 8 5 7 2 4 6 1 2 37. Luxembourg 1 1 38. Estonia 2 1 1 1 1 39. Sri Lanka 1 1 40. United Arab Emirates 1 1 41. South Korea 3 1 1 1 42. Chile 1 43. Thailand 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 2 3 44. Mexico 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 45. Saudi Arabia 1 1 46. Indonesia 1 1 47. Taiwan 1 1 1 1 1 1 48. Malawi 1 1 1 49. Ireland 1 2 3 4 3 4 4 2 3 2 3 1 1 50. Colombia 1 1 1 1 51. China 1 1 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 2 52. Croatia 1 1 1 53. Gambia 1 54. Lithuania 2 55. Argentina 1 56. Kuwait 1 1 57. Sudan 1 58. Ukraine 1 1 59. Egypt 1 60. Pakistan 1 1 1 61. Philippines 1 62. Zimbabwe 1 63. Kenya 1 1 64. Oman 1 ISCB News #45 Page 2 June 2008 ISCB President’s Mid-Year Update From Emmanuel Lesaffre Dear Friends, Our annual meeting in Copenhagen is The Greece meeting was a hit both scientifically approaching rapidly now. The meeting covers 4 as well as financially. No doubt this will be also pre-conference courses (adaptive designs, the case for the Copenhagen meeting, as many discrete longitudinal data, Bayesian methods past ISCB meetings and gradually we are and non-inferiority trials), 5 ordinary invited becoming again a financially healthy Society.