| Working Groups Hot Topics |
PHUSE collaborations are organised into a number of specialist Working Groups, each with a broad topic area. The Working Groups have specific projects designed to achieve a set of particular objectives. This page will highlight the latest news and information from our projects. Participation is open to anyone who wants to contribute and if you would like to get involved, please email workinggroups@phuse.global. |
| PHUSE/FDA CSS 2024 |
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Registration for the |
PHUSE/FDA CSS |
2024 is open! Come and be a part of the PHUSE/FDA Computational Science Symposium |
2024 (CSS) taking place 3–5 June in Silver Spring, MD. |
The Safety Analytics Working Group will be delivering a series of virtual, free to attend webinars over the coming months. The third webinar will take place on 14 September on the topic of 'Safety Analytics Webinar Series: Overall Safety Assessment – AE Groupings for Assessment of Safety Topics of Interest'. Click here to register, a list of all upcoming webinars and previous webinars can be found here.
Save the date! The Real World Evidence Working Group will be hosting another Community Forum, 5 October 14:00–15:00 (BST) 09:00–10:00 (EDT). Presentations will be on the topic of 'Adapting RWD into CDISC Submission Standards: Challenges and Potential Solutions'. Registration will open soon.
| Calling For Feedback |
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The Good Transparency Practices project within the Data Transparency Working Group, is now calling for feedback! This White Paper aims to define a set of best practices for data transparency and create a Good Transparency Practices guidance. The best practices will aim to ensure anonymised data is compliant with the legal requirements as defined by Regulators, as well as preserves as much data utility as possible. Please send in your comments to workinggroups@phuse.global by 3 May. |
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The Best Data Practices for Rare Disease Patient Foundations and Researchers within the Real World Evidence Working Group, has published a new deliverable in the form of a poster. The poster provides an overview of Ensuring Registry Data Relevance and Reliability for Regulatory Use. The PHUSE data standards community, which is comprised of leaders and experts responsible for the governance and implementation of data standards across the biopharmaceutical industry, have authored and new White Paper. The Data Standards White Paper highlights current challenges in data standardisation across the biopharma industry and identify opportunities where we can work together to tackle them. The SDTM ADaM Implementation FAQ within Optimizing the Use of Data Standards Working Group have published a new FAQ! The question they have answered is 'Naming Convention for Split RS Domain', you can view this question and the teams response viaValidation/Conformance Rules page. You can see all the FAQ this project has answered so far via here. Do you have a SDTM ADaM question? You can send your questions to the team by emailing workinggroups@phuse.global. |
Volunteer Opportunities | |
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The Data Visualisation & Open Source Technology Working Group has a new project, Demonstrating Real-World Impact of Modernization of Statistical Analytics (MSA) Framework.This project aims to extend the MSA framework by creating a reference architecture that takes into account real-world scenarios and design solutions to remediate them, ultimately providing a practical guide to building an end-to-end validated environment for regulated work. Companies seeking to build an open-source programming environment for regulatory reporting can leverage the MSA framework for guidance. However, since the framework is designed to be both flexible and extensible, implementing it may prove challenging for companies, resulting in situations where risks are not sufficiently mitigated. While the original MSA paper provided conceptual guidance, the PHUSE handover of the project will seek to provide an overview of practical implementations of the framework being applied. This project is calling for volunteers, to join contact workinggroups@phuse.global by 26 April. The Safety Analytics Working Group is looking for a new Working Group Lead to join their team. This Working Group is a cross-disciplinary collaboration working to improve the content and implementation of clinical trial safety analyses for medical research, leading to better data interpretations and increased efficiency in the clinical drug development and review processes. Click here to see a list of current projects within this Working Group. Learn more about the roles and the responsibilities of a Working Group Lead and apply by emailing workinggroups@phuse.global. Closing date 26 April |
Volunteer Opportunities
The Nonclinical Topics Workings Group’s new project, Nonclinical Protocol Automation is now calling for volunteers. This project plans to determine the feasibility of transforming the BioCelerate Nonclinical Protocol Template into a dynamic Microsoft Word document where filling in the template allows output of all fields for machine readability. Determine the feasibility of expanding the OpenStudyBuilder system for nonclinical study usage. Explore the output and API functionality of this system. Based upon conclusions from the above, work with one or both groups to complete a pilot for creating a few model study designs for demonstration of protocol automation.
Real World Evidence Working Group’s new project, Real World Data Guideline/White Paper for Statistical Programmers is now calling for volunteers. The aim of this project is for statistical programmers across pharma to collaborate and provide their input to create an RWE Guideline/White Paper for the industry.
Data Transparency Working Group's new project Anonymization of Imaging Data is now calling for volunteers. This project plans to complete a literature review on types of imaging files including (X-rays, (f)MRIs, CT scans, etc.), their formats (DICOM, NIfTI, etc.), their positions (limbs, heads, organs, etc.) and all associated metadata. There will also be a discussion on data handling, storage and transfer. Any existing guidance and repositories will be reviewed. We will then focus on use cases that will have the most impact based on interest and complexity.
Real World Evidence Working Group's project Real World Evidence Guidance have created a 5-minute survey to asses interest, identify preferred methods of communication and gather initial questions to be raised through their open source platform for addressing queries relating to RWD. The Real World Evidence Guidance have also compiled a collection of frequently asked questions about using Real World Evidence. Check out the Real World Evidence Guidance Q&A page to see some of the teams' responses and the schedule of upcoming questions.
Please contact workinggroups@phuse.global to register your interest in volunteering. Multiple projects within Working Groups are open to join. PHUSE welcomes new members who can apply their knowledge to bring fresh ideas and contribute to the ongoing work of PHUSE projects. For more information, click here, read the Welcome Pack or email workinggroups@phuse.global. |
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The Cloud Adoption in the Life Sciences Industry project has made an update to their Cloud Framework, Pre-Amble White Paper. Since the original publication of this framework, adoption of the public cloud by Life Sciences has become necessary, and no longer the exception. As part of this foreseeable evolution, there has been a significant rise in the construction of hybrid and/or multi-cloud systems. This framework outlines these approaches leveraging well recognised concepts. The team are calling for feedback on the White Paper, please provide any comments to workinggroups@phuse.global by 23 August.
The Julia Initiative for High Performance Computing project have produced a White Paper providing an overview of Julia's features and benefits for high performance computing, including its fast compilation, dynamic typing, multiple dispatch, and built-in support for parallelism. This paper also discusses current real-world use cases of Julia and potential case studies for high performance computing. The team are calling for feedback on the White Paper, please provide any comments to workinggroups@phuse.global by 7 August. |
| New Project Idea? |
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Initiate and lead a new project under the PHUSE Working Groups umbrella. The new project must address problems of significant relevance to computational science related to drug, |
biological and device development and must meet all of the guidelines for projects within the collaboration, including the following mandatory requirements:
New projects can be submitted anytime during the year, click here to submit |
Working Groups Report: Includes project updates, recent and upcoming deliverables and the future plans for each Working Group.
Monthly Mailings: The monthly newsletter. Here you will find a full update from each month of the year, easily accessible and divided into key areas of PHUSE.
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