Dear Colleagues,
The Iberoamerican Pharmacometrics Network (RedIF, www.redifar.org) is
announcing the celebration of its 2019 Congress in Havana, Cuba, on
October 27 to 30: "Pharmacometrics in the Developing World:
Translational M&S and Virtual Bioequivalence".
The Congress will be held in Tryp Havana Libre Melia Hotel, the most
cosmopolitan and centric Melia hotel in Havana. Congress will feature
keynote lectures, focused seminars, oral student session and poster
session.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
• Lena Friberg, PhD. Uppsala University: "Pharmacometrics to combat
antimicrobial drug resistance".
• Donald E. Mager, PhD. University at Buffalo: "Translational
Pharmacometrics and system pharmacology models in oncology".
• Lawrence Lesko, PhD. University of Florida: "Physiologically Based
Pharmacokinetic Modeling (PBPK) in Drug Development and Regulatory
Science: From Bench to Bedside".
Focused seminars: Therapeutic Drug monitoring, Virtual Bioequivalence,
PK/PD modeling, PBPK/PD & QSP and Internal Dosimetry in
Radiopharmaceutical Development.
Also, several pre-congress and post-congress workshops will be held on
MONOLIX (Lixoft), NONMEM (ICON plc), nlmixr and PK-Sim (Open Suites
Pharmacology).
Abstract submission period is already open for both oral and poster
presentation. Abstracts should be sent by e-mail to
redif.cuba2...@gmail.com.
Authors should provide their abstract in English, in Word format (Arial,
12 pt, single space), including: Title: In Bold and capital letter;
Authors and affiliations: Last name and first letter of the name using
comas between every author (in black). The name of the author who will
present the work should be underlined. Abstracts should be clear and
precise, containing in no more than 300 words: Introduction, Materials
and Methods, Results and Discussion and Conclusions. Deadline for
submission: July 15.
Information regarding registration fees and accommodations will be
available soon.
Your participation will provide you the opportunity of sharing results
and expertise with the most prominent specialist in Latin-America and
other colleagues from all around the world as invited
speaker/participant. In addition, incorporation of student sessions
provides an excellent education framework for our future specialist in
the field.
So please mark your calendars to join us in promoting the development of
pharmacometrics in Latin America.
On behalf of the RedIF 2019 Scientific Committee,
Leyanis Rodriguez Vera, PhD.
Head of Pharmacokinetics group,
Department of Pharmacy
Institute of Pharmacy and Foods
University of Havana
Cuba
