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New Articles on Adaptive Clinical Trials & Adaptive Financing

Clinical_Investigation_JournalAdaptive financing (not to be confused with adaptive licensing) explores how biotechs, pharmaceuticals and potential investors, can use adaptive designs for more strategic financial decision-making, as well as for efficient drug development.  

“For example,” writes Zoran Antonijevic, Senior Director at Cytel Consulting, “Reduction in costs and development time can be accomplished by combining stages of development, or by early stopping for efficacy or futility. Investment risks at late stage of development can be reduced by incorporating a sample size reassessment at an interim analysis, or simply by incorporating stopping rules for efficacy and/or futility."

Zoran has just edited a volume of Clinical Investigation featuring articles on the financial and developmental benefits of adaptive clinical trial design. The volume contains a broad spectrum of issues beginning with a couple of articles on adaptive financing by Tessella’s Tom Parke, and Christopher Weir of the Health Services Research Unit at the University of Edinburgh. 

ZoranThe volume also stresses the pivotal nature of dose-finding for efficient development, with contributions on Phase 2 oncology trials from Anastasia Ivanova, Guochen Song, Olga Marchenko and Stergios Moschos; as well as Meinhard Kieser, Stefan Englert and Geraldine Rauch. Thomas Jaki also explains the use of multi-arm trials in treatment selection with a look at an Alzheimer’s case.

Further contributions include an article by Jurgen Hummel, Song Wang and John Kirkpatrick on using simulation to optimize adaptive designs for both learning and confirmatory trials; the use of adaptive designs for biomarker selection by Noah Simon; and the uses of adaptive designs for personalized medicine by Feifang Hu, Yanqing Hu, Wei Ma, Lixin Zhang and Hongjian Zhu.                                            

The issue also considers how designs can affect incentives for patients as well as investors. John Loewy of DataForeThought weighs in on how these novel adaptive designs can align drug development with incentives for patients.

Read Zoran's Introduction


Related Items of Interest

 

Clinical Investigation Journal Volume 5, Number 4

Zoran Antonijevic, Adaptive Clinical TrialsClinical Investigation 5.4 (2015): 353-354

                                                                                             

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