ASA BIOP Bayesian Scientific Working Group (BSWG)

Omni Nashville Hotel 

Room: H - Broadway J,H - Broadway K 

Bayesian Scientific Working Group
JSM 2025 Face-to-Face Meeting Agenda

4:00 - 4:10 Welcome & BSWG Overview
Presenters: Pritibha Singh, ETH Zurich
Melissa Spann, Cytel Inc.
4:10 – 4:20 Website Update
Presenter: Melvin Musaka & Spencer Woody

4:20 – 4:50 Benefit-Risk Team Update +
"Introduction to a New Bayesian Method for
Quantitative Benefit-Risk Assessment."
Presenter: Saurabh Mukhopadhyay

4:50 – 5:20 Controlling the type I error rate
of repeated trials that do not exist: Why?
Presenter: Yuan Ji

5:20 – 5:55 Bayesian Jeopardy
Friendly Competition
1st Place Prize to Winning Team

5:55 -6:00 Wrap-up
Planning Committee: Spencer Woody, Melissa Spann

The Bayesian Scientific Working Group
(BSWG) was formed in 2011 with the vision
to ensure that Bayesian methods are wellunderstood
and broadly utilized for design
and analysis throughout the medical
product development process and to
improve industrial, regulatory, and
economic decision making. The group is
comprised of individuals from academia,
industry, and regulatory authorities.
https://bayesscientific.github.io
Current Officers:
Chair - Pritibha Singh
Vice-Chair - Melissa Spann
Past Chairs - Karen Price, Amy Xia, Fanni
Natanegara, Freda Cooner
Secretary – Spencer Woody, Hao Sun
KOL committee: Melissa Spann
Webmaster: Spencer Woody, Haijun Ma;
Melvin Munsaka
Free membership

Biopharmaceutical Section