Asian Pharmacometrics Network Annual Symposium 2026

Pre-Conference Workshops  |  Mon 26 Oct, 09:00–12:00

Workshop 1 (R / Python)	Incorporating AI/ML in PMX  —  James Lu
Workshop 2 (R)	PMX with R  —  Rajan

Day 1: Mon 26 Oct (Afternoon, Half Day)

12:30–13:15	Registration
13:15–13:25	Welcome by APN Hosts — Lai San Tham / Janice Goh
13:25–13:45	APN Board Chair Address — Kyungsoo Park
13:45–14:30	Keynote Lecture — Rada Savic, Professor, University of California, San Francisco
	Session 1  —  Pharmacometrics, MIDD and Beyond.    Chair: TBC
14:30–15:10	Plenary: Dr. Gemma Dickinson, Vice President, Global PK/PD & PMX, Lilly – Models Don’t Think. We Do: Pharmacometrics, Mechanistic Reasoning, and the Future of MIDD
15:10–15:40	Kyungsoo Park, Professor, Yonsei University – Presentation title TBC
15:40–16:00	Tea Break
16:00–16:30	Dr. Siti Maisharah Sheikh Ghadzi (Universiti Sains Malaysia) — Pharmacometrics Modelling in Clinical Practice: Insights from Rifampicin Therapy
	Oral Presentations (3 × 15 min). Chair: Sook Hui Chaw, Associate Professor, Universiti Malaya
16:30–16:45	Presentation 1 — TBC
16:45–17:00	Presentation 2 — TBC
17:00–17:15	Presentation 3 — TBC

Day 2: Tue 27 Oct (Full Day)

	Session 2  —  QSP, PBPK & Translational Medicine.   Chair: Joel Tarning, Professor, University of Oxford
09:00–09:40	Plenary: Dr. Mindy Magee, Vice President, Translational Medicine, GSK — From Data to Decision: Translational Tools That Deliver Impact
09:40–10:10	Dr. Sotaro Naoi, Chugai Pharmabody — Physiologically Based Pharmacokinetic Modeling of Therapeutic Antibodies: Mechanistic Insights and Applications in Antibody Drug Discovery
10:10–10:40	Dr. Thanaporn Wattanakul, Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit — A Pharmacometric Framework for Characterizing Antimalarial Exposure in Lactating Women and Breastfed Infants
10:40–11:00	Tea Break
11:00–11:30	Eric Chan, Provost’s Innovation Chair Professor, National University of Singapore — Understanding Complex DDIs in COVID-19 Treatment: Advancing from Static to Dynamic Models and toward AI-Enabled Approaches
	Oral Presentations (3 × 15 min).  Chair: Yunn-Fang Ho, Professor, National Taiwan University
11:30–11:45	Presentation 4 — TBC
11:45–12:00	Presentation 5 — TBC
12:00–12:15	Presentation 6 — TBC
12:15–13:20	Lunch Break
	Session 3  —  AI, ML-Enabled Predictive Modelling .   Chair: James Lu, Bioinformatics institute
13:20–14:00	Plenary: Dr. Lawrence Carin, Bioinformatics Institute – On the need for biological understanding in the age of AI
14:00–14:30	Dr. Yamato Sano, Pfizer — Mechanistic Insights by Combining QSP and ML: An Inflammatory Bowel Disease Case Study
14:30–15:00	Dr. Min Jung Chang, Professor, Yonsei University – PKGPT and the Future of AI-Enabled Pharmacometrics: Toward Automated, Human-in-the-Loop Population Pharmacokinetic Modeling
15:00–15:30	Dr. Md Mamunur Rashid, Bioinformatics Institute — Integrating Multi-omics Data with AI/ML for Drug Response Prediction and Therapeutic Target Discovery
15:30–15:45	Tea Break
	Oral Presentations (4 x 15 min).  Chair: TBC
15:45–16:00	Presentation 7 — TBC
16:00–16:15	Presentation 8 — TBC
16:15–16:30	Presentation 9 — TBC
16:30–16:45	Presentation 10 — TBC
16:45–16:50	Award — Winner for oral presentations
16:50–17:00	Closing remarks and group photo