In this blog, Paul Terrill, Director of Strategic Consulting at Cytel outlines his blueprint for ensuring smooth communication between statistical and clinical stakeholders. Paul draws upon his 20 years of experience working as a statistician and his training background to share his guidelines for success. Whether you are a statistician looking to hone your project communication skills, or a...

Topics: clinical research, clinical trials, SDTM, biostatistics, Cytel Strategic Consulting, clinical development

Topics: Adaptive Clinical Trials, Trial Design, phase 2, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Simulations, East, adaptive designs, Bayesian Methods, Phase I, biostatistics, Statistical Innovations in Clinical Development, randomization, patientricity

 

Topics: clinical research, clinical trials, clinical development, biostatistics, patientricity

Topics: Adaptive Clinical Trials, Trial Design, phase 2, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Simulations, East, adaptive designs, Bayesian Methods, Phase I, go-no-go, biostatistics, Statistical Innovations in Clinical Development, randomization

 

We are delighted that Stephen Senn will be joining us at the EUGM on November 14th and 15th in Darmstadt, Germany. In this blog, we sit down for a discussion with Stephen about his career in statistics, his advice for early career statisticians, his upcoming research, and the topic of his presentation at the East User Group Meeting “70 Years Old and Still Here: the Randomized Clinical Trial...

Topics: Adaptive Clinical Trials, Trial Design, phase 2, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Simulations, East, adaptive designs, Bayesian Methods, Phase I, go-no-go, biostatistics, Statistical Innovations in Clinical Development, randomization

At Cytel we believe that expert statistical input has the power to shape the future of clinical development: de-risking portfolios, accelerating timelines, and increasing the probability of success.

In this blog we talk to Adam who lives in North Carolina United States to find out more about his career path, achievements, current role at Cytel and his interests outside of work.

Topics: Statistical Analysis, careers, clinical research, Statistical Programming, CRO, Recruitment, Cytel Strategic Consulting, biostatistics, adaptive designs, Adaptive Clinical Trials, clinical trials, Regulation

 

Immunotherapy has brought us many promises, most notably, of a future where humans are able to harness their body’s own ability to protect them from illness. Immuno-oncology (IO) may be the ultimate frontier of that future reality, with a promise of being able to help our bodies deflect or cure us of any malignancies. Today, these therapies include cell therapies, cancer vaccine, and...

Topics: Oncology, immunotherapy, biostatistics

 

The biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries now collect more data than ever before due to advances in the variety of information sources combined with the ability to store vast quantities of diverse data. Sophisticated machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques allow us to accessand analyze any combination of a multitude of data sources. The way that traditional...

Topics: biostatistics, data science, real world evidence

 

On August 29th 2018, the FDA announced (1) that it would be establishing a Complex Innovative Trial Design (CID) Pilot Meeting Program. This follows the release earlier in August of a draft guidance (2) to help advance effective and innovative clinical trial designs early in drug development that can expedite new cancer therapies.

Topics: biostatistics, adaptive trials, adaptive sample size re-estimation, Seamless designs, FDA, Oncology

 

JSM 2018, ASA’s annual gathering of over 6500 attendees attracted statisticians and data scientists to the beautiful city of Vancouver on July 28 – August 2. The conference offers a one of a kind opportunity for statisticians to exchange ideas and explore opportunities for collaboration. In this blog, we will provide access to our team's slide decks from the event, as well as some of their...

Topics: biostatistics, adaptive designs, data science, Bayesian, careers

Topics: Statistical Analysis, careers, clinical research, Statistical Programming, CRO, Recruitment, Cytel Strategic Consulting, biostatistics, adaptive designs, Adaptive Clinical Trials, clinical trials, Regulation, Trial Quality

At Cytel our strategic consulting team works on a wide range of projects including: Identifying the best clinical trial design, implementing adaptive designs, developing a regulatory strategy and interacting with regulators.

In this blog we talk to Sam who lives in the Boston area, to find out more about his career path, current role at Cytel, industry experience and his interests outside of...

Topics: Statistical Analysis, careers, clinical research, Statistical Programming, CRO, Recruitment, Cytel Strategic Consulting, biostatistics, adaptive designs, Adaptive Clinical Trials, clinical trials

A number of the Cytel team were in Amsterdam, 3rd- 6th June 2018 for the PSI Conference. This year’s conference was held at the magnificent Beurs Van Berlage, a venue full of history and interesting architectural features. We took the opportunity to give delegates a first look at OK GO, our new clinical trial Go/No-Go decision-making software in this magnificent setting.

In this blog, we'll...

Topics: biostatistics, adaptive designs, PSI Conference, Clinical Data, Adaptive Clinical Trials, data science, estimands, Bayesian

By Esha Senchaudhuri

An important trend in clinical development involves integrating strategic pharmacometric analysis with program level decision-making, to make the most use of available data. This can occur in various forms, from leveraging preclinical data for go-no-go decision making [1], to the need for improved comparative effectiveness frameworks [2].

Here we have five reasons why you...

Topics: biostatistics, pharmacometrics, pharmacology, meta-analysis, quantitative decision-making

 

 

Our Industry Voices series showcases our clients’ innovative work and breakthrough therapeutics in oncologic indications and other critical areas of medical unmet need.

In this article, we sit down with Charles Theuer, M.D., CEO of TRACON Pharmaceuticals to discusshis work, his views on the key advancements in oncology development, the unmet needs yet to be overcome, and the importance of...

Topics: biostatistics, Oncology, Phase 1, Phase 3, Clinical Development Strategy, Adaptive Clinical Trials

 

Our Industry Voices series showcases our clients’ innovative work and breakthrough therapeutics in oncologic indications and other critical areas of medical unmet need.

In this article, we are delighted to share an interview with Kurt Gunter, M.D., Chief Medical Officer of Cell Medica in which he discusses his work, his views on the key advancements in oncology development, the unmet needs...

Topics: biostatistics, Oncology, Phase 1, Phase 3, Clinical Development Strategy, Adaptive Clinical Trials

As we prepare to head to ASCO in under a month's time, we are pleased to share a new ebook that showcases some key applications of innovative trial designs in the oncology development space.

Topics: biostatistics, Oncology, Phase 1, Phase 3, Clinical Development Strategy, Adaptive Clinical Trials

PSI is a global member organization dedicated to leading and promoting best practice and industry initiatives for statisticians in the biopharmaceutical industry. The PSI annual conference is going from strength to strength, attracting increasing numbers of delegates from Europe and beyond. With the 2018 conference taking place in Amsterdam in only a month’s time, we took the opportunity to...

Topics: biostatistics, data science, quantitative decision-making

Our recent Clinical Biometrics Survey explored the views of respondents from across the statistical programming, biostatistics, and data management functions to learn their top challenges, and most important perceived industry trends and skills development. In this blog, our Ajay Sathe gives his perspectives on the key areas of personal and knowledge development that he believes statistical...

Topics: Statistical Programming, SAS, R language, clinical data management, biostatistics

 

To mark the occasion of our 30th anniversary, in late 2017 we conducted a brief survey to gain a snapshot of what professionals in data management, statistical programming, and biostatistics feel are the key challenges facing their functions, the top areas for skills development, and the clinical data areas they believe are likely to have the greatest impact on drug development.

We are now...

Topics: SAS, Statistical Programming, clinical data management, Biometrics, biostatistics