NERDS 2025 : Overview
The 8th Annual New England Rare
Disease
Statistics (NERDS) Workshop 2025
NERDS 2025
<October 9-10, 2025>Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge
Workshop Information
Drug development efforts in the rare disease space have continually expanded and evolved over the past few decades. Contributing factors include increased public awareness, encouraging drug regulation changes, scientific advances in cellular and molecular biology and genetics, development of innovative trial designs, a large influx of capital investment, and the availability of scientific talent cultivated over decades.
As a result, a great number of regulators, academicians, and industry statisticians now work to bring orphan drugs to patients, facing unique technical issues and challenges. However, at least in the U.S., there remains no statistical conference dedicated to such issues and challenges. Given this large unmet need, the New England Statistical Society (NESS) provides this unique conference so that statisticians across the entire rare disease drug development spectrum have a common “home” to exchange ideas, share experiences, and network.
The first conference took place in 2018 at Biogen in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since then, the workshop has been hosted at various venues in the Northeast and online, featuring in-depth presentations and discussions.
In 2025, we will be hosting a fully in-person, day-and-a-half workshop (Oct 9-10, 2025) at Hyatt Regency Boston/Cambridge. This year's workshop theme is: Shaping tomorrow: transforming rare disease drug development. We are looking forward to seeing you at the conference.