Early Career Community (EC)

Description & Goals

The Early Career Community has been established to involve early career members, who are the future of the organization, at a very early stage in ASCPT. Our mission is to create a Community of early career ASCPT members to share experiences, knowledge and to inspire each other.

Community Connection

Join the LinkedIn group.

Upcoming Webinar

ASCPT Members-Only Webinar Presented by the Pharmacometrics & Pharmacokinetics (PMK) and Early Career (EC) Communities
Title: Introduction of Deep Learning in Drug Discovery and Development, Part 2: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
Date and Time: Friday, May 14, 2021, 1:00 pm EST
Speakers: Patrick Lang and Jagdeep Podichetty, PhD
Moderator: Sakshi Sardar, PhD
Description: Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are algorithms that are inspired by the biological neural networks present in our brains. They consist of neurons grouped into input layers, hidden layers, and output layers. These networks take in raw data and learn to perform tasks over many iterations. In this webinar, we will build off Part 1 of the Introduction to Deep Learning in Drug Discovery and Development series, diving deeper into the framework for an ANN model. More specifically, we will go over the workflow of building an ANN and the steps involved. This webinar will also discuss evaluating model performance and optimization. Finally, we will showcase an ANN model built from scratch to identify handwritten digits.
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Past Webinar:

Mental Health & Addicition (MHA) and Early Career (EC) Communities Interview Series Part 1 and 2
Joint Early Career and Oncology Community Webinar: Translational and Clinical Pharmacology Considerations in the Development of Immune-Oncology Drugs (Encore Presentation)
Staying Engaged in Your Career Without Burning Out: A Call for Action to Build Resilience
ASCPT Interview Series Featuring Don Heald, PhD, and Kellie Reynolds, PharmD
Translational and Clinical Pharmacology Considerations in the Development of Immune-Oncology Drugs
Early Career ‘Pearls’ and ‘Pitfalls’ – What I Wish I Had Known in My First Five Years!
Coffee Break with the ASCPT’s Editors- in-Training
ASCPT Interview Series Featuring Dan Hartman, MD (Presentation Slides)
Next Generation Pharmacometricians – Examples from Early Career Modelers on MID3 Implementation (Presentation Slides)
Early Career Transitions and Advancement: Perspectives from Academia, Industry and Regulatory

Leadership

Songmao (Ben) Zheng, PhD

Community Chair

Nithya Srinivas, PhD

Community Vice Chair

Aline Bergesch Barth, PhD

Community Past Chair

Steering Committee Members:

Ali Alhadab, MS, PharmD, PhD
Mariam Ahmed, PhD
Vivaswath Ayyar, PhD
Emily Cicali, PharmD
Pooja Manchandani, PhD
Malek Okour, PhD
Chetan Rathi, BS, MS, PhD
Sonal Singh, PhD
Benjamin Weber, BS, MS, PhD