Call for Proposal

18thANNUAL CONFERENCE OF INDIAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH 2025
ENHANCING INDIA’S SUCCESS IN CLINICAL RESEARCH: UNIFYING INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PATIENT CENTRICITY

conference Date: 31 Jan – 01 Feb 2025

Venue: CIDCO Exhibition & Convention Centre Vashi, Navi Mumbai

SOC: SOC Chair: Dr. Ganesh Dakhle & SOC Co-Chairs: Murugananthan K., Kedar Nayak, Dr. Santosh Taur

The Call for Proposals for the 18th ISCR Annual Conference 2025 is now OPEN

We are thrilled to announce the commencement of the call for proposals for the 18th ISCR Annual Conference. This conference serves as a premier platform for clinicians, researchers, and industry professionals to share insights, exchange ideas to enhance India’s success in clinical research unifying Innovation, Technology and Patient Centricity.

Call for Proposals: We invite you to submit proposals that align with the conference theme. The title should be engaging, thought-provoking, and focused on providing practical insights, research findings, and strategies in alignment with the theme. We encourage your proposals to cover under any of the following tracks.

Track 1 Clinical Operations, Bioethics & Regulatory
Track 2 Clinical Data Management
Track 3 Medical Writing
Track 4 Biostatistics & Statistical Programming
Track 5 Pharmacovigilance (PV) , Real World Evidence (RWE) & Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR)
Track 6 Academic Clinical Development, Basic & Translation Research

Submission Guidelines for Proposals:

Title: Provide a descriptive title for your proposed session.

Abstract: Summarize the content of your session in approximately 300 words.

Format: Word document or PowerPoint presentation

Speaker Bio: Include a brief biography highlighting your qualifications and expertise.

Duration: Indicate the preferred duration of your presentation (maximum 30 mins for individual presentations- (Note: duration may be less, vary in different tracks)

Storyline: In addition to the abstract, provide 2-3 slides presentation that summarizes the contetnt of your presentation.

Further details: We invite proposals for individual presentations aligned with the conference theme. This will provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and professionals to showcase their work, share insights, and contribute to the overall conference objectives. Sessions will be designed and decided by the individual track committees and SOC from the selected proposals.

Submission of a proposal is not a confirmation in any way for a speaker slot in the conference, nor does it guarantee inclusion in the final agenda of the conference.

The decision of Scientific Organising Committee (SOC) will be final.

Key Dates

Deadline for proposal submission: 19 Aug 2024

Communication to selected speakers by ISCR 31 Oct 2024

Deadline for submitting final presentations (PPTs) / panel content: 10 Dec 2024

If you have any questions about the Call for Proposals, please contact ISCR at info@iscr.org, with Subject line: ISCR Annual Conference 2025: Call for Proposals ISCR reserves the right to accept or reject any proposals without providing any reasons for the same.

As a member-driven organization, we encourage proposal submitters to be ISCR members. If you are not a current ISCR member, you can apply for or renew your membership at https://www.iscr.org/Member_Registration.aspx

Selection Process

The selected proposals will ensure that the conference offers a comprehensive and non-promotional scientific program that meets the objectives and guiding principles of ISCR. Proposals that clearly describe innovative and cutting-edge work in the field of clinical research and are around the theme of the conference will receive the highest priority in the selection process. Previously presented and published abstracts must be properly acknowledged by providing the citation to that abstract.

Proposals will be reviewed by the Scientific Organizing Committee and other reviewers in a double-blinded and unbiased way using the following criteria:

Thank you for considering our invitation, and we eagerly anticipate receiving your compelling session proposals.

  • Topic : Relevance, Importance, Value, and/or Interest to Clinical Research Community
  • Quality of Submission : Quality, Content, Clarity, and Depth of Demonstrated Understanding of the Topic
  • Aligned to the Conference Theme : Content Aligns to the Overall Conference Theme
Some examples of suggested topic/session themes
Clinical Development, Operations & Regulatory Affairs
  • Patients as partners in research
  • Patient-focused drug development - Guidance from regulatory authorities
  • Confidence in clinical research - Understanding regulations, guidelines, practices & real-world applications, data integrity, analysis & communications, & advocacy
  • Driving diversity & equity in clinical trials
  • Impact of the pandemic on clinical research scenario in India
  • Evolution of clinical research in India post pandemic
  • Monitoring - what has changed since the pandemic
  • Inspection readiness
HEOR & RWE
  • Using RWE in healthcare decision making
  • RWD & RWE in supporting clinical trial designs
  • Leveraging AI in analyzing RWE
  • Can RWE replace clinical trials – a panel discussion
Biostatistics & Statistical Programming
  • Modeling & simulation methodology in drug development
  • Protocol designs & optimization of protocol design
  • Bayesian approaches in clinical trials
  • Re-identification risk assessment - Role of biostatisticians
  • Risk-based approach in clinical trials (RBM/RBQM)
  • Pediatric Covid-19 studies - Statistical issues in a pandemic
Medical Writing
  • Medical writing in the era of artificial intelligence
  • Digital technologies in publications
  • Optimizing journal submission process
  • Structured authoring; TransCelerate e-Templates
  • NDA/MAA/BLA submission optimization
  • FDA Assessment Aids
  • Types of eCTD submission packages: differences & similarities
  • Innovations in readying documents for submission
Clinical Data Management
  • eSource initiative for more efficient data collection practices
  • The growing importance of synthetic data
  • Clinical data management in RWE studies
  • Data protection policies - Impact on data management practices
Pharmacovigilance & Safety
  • Lessons in PV - Experiences with COVID-19 vaccines
  • Reference safety information: What does EU CTR change?
  • Aggregate safety assessments
  • Estimands in safety & benefit-risk evaluation

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