Cytel’s 7th East User Group Meeting (EUGM) will take place on November 14 & 15, 2018 at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany, bringing together industry experts, thought leaders and applied statisticians to discuss the future of clinical trials.

The agenda has been developed collaboratively by the EUGM Scientific Committee, and keynote speakers will include Stephen Senn, Meinhard Kieser, Thomas...

Topics: East, Bayesian Methods, Trial Design, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Adaptive Clinical Trials, phase 2, Simulations, adaptive designs

 

 It’s shaping up to be a busy year for Cytel’s software development team with a number of upgrades and planned launches across our range of tools. (Watch this space for announcements soon on new quantitative decision-making software OK GO and an upgrade to EnForeSys). East, our industry leading platform for clinical trial design, simulation, and monitoring will be unveiling version 6.5 in...

Topics: East, Trial Design, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Adaptive Clinical Trials, phase 2, Simulations

Namrata Deshpande, Senior Team Lead will be participating in a round table discussion at the Women in Statistics event in California, October 19-21.

This is the first blog in a new 'Career Perspectives' series and we talk to Namrata to find out more on her career path, achievements, current role at Cytel and her interests outside of work. 

Topics: East, Clinical Research Services, Statistical Programming, Statistical Analysis, Clinical Development Strategy, Statistical Innovations in Clinical Development, biostatistics, R programming, careers

At the East User Group meeting (EUGM) on 25th and 26th October, we will welcome a number of renowned industry speakers to discuss some of the most promising approaches in innovative trial design. Over the next few weeks, we will profile a number of the speakers and their talks. In this blog, we talk with Bob Beckman M.D in advance of his presentation ‘Design Concept for a Confirmatory Basket...

Topics: Oncology, East, Clinical Research Services, Clinical Development Strategy, Statistical Innovations in Clinical Development, biostatistics, basket trials

Since 2011 we have been celebrating Cytel's birthdays by holding an East Annual Symposium and User Group Meeting ( EUGM), alternating locations between Europe and the United States. Our keynote speakers have featured some of the industry's most eminent biostatistics thought leaders including Stuart Pocock, Dave DeMets, Chris Jennison, Sue Todd, and Franz Koenig.  Each annual event has been a...

Topics: East, Dose-Escalation, Adaptive Clinical Trials, Multi-Arm Multi-Stage Studies, biostatistics, EAST 6.4, adaptive designs

Adaptive sample size re-estimation designs are an important part of the statistician's toolkit. In this first in a series of East Insight videos, Cytel Statistician Charles Liu walks us through the creation of an adaptive sample size re-estimation design in East with a 5 minute demo. Watch the video and download the accompanying slidedeck to recreate the steps. 

 

Topics: East, sample size re-estimation, adaptive sample size re-estimation, adaptive trials

At the recent JSM meeting in Chicago, Cytel's Jim Bolognese presented the results of work he has conducted evaluating the T-Statistic ( or T-Stat) method for adaptive dose finding of MTD.  In this blog we'll provide a brief summary of Jim's findings, and share his slides with our blog readers.

Topics: East, Dose-Escalation, Dose-Finding, Compass, biostatistics, adaptive designs, adaptive trials

 

At a recent PhUSE SDE, Cytel’s Chitra Tirodkar presented how East PROC MCPMod could be used  to  help solve the problem of uncertain true dose-response relationship in a bronchodilator study.  In this blog we summarize some of the issues, and make Chitra's slides available for download. 

Topics: East, Statistical Programming, Dose-Finding, Dose Selection, MCP-Mod, EAST 6.4, SAS

 Predicting the course of a clinical trial is something which people will always want to do-whether for statistical reasons, planning reasons or business reasons. In this blog we look at examples of where prediction goes off course, and how we can resolve these issues.  We also share valuable video and slidedeck resources from our VP Consulting and Software, Yannis Jemiai.

Topics: East, East PREDICT, Interim Analyses, Cytel Videos, Cytel Events, clinical development, EAST 6.4, adaptive designs, adaptive trials, DMC

 

Last week, we were delighted to announce the release of East 6.4 bringing further cutting –edge approaches to the East user community. East is the industry standard platform for clinical trial design, simulation, and monitoring, improving scientific productivity during the critical planning stages of clinical development. In this blog we catch up with Yannis Jemiai, VP of Cytel  to gain some...

Topics: East, Bayesian Methods, East PREDICT, Prediction, Software Simulations, Multi-Arm Studies, Multi-Arm Multi-Stage Studies, biostatistics, EAST 6.4, adaptive trials

There has been increasing interest in  multi-arm multi-stage trials with treatment selection and sample size re-estimation at interim analysis. The East 6.4  release incorporates new Multi-Arm Multi-Stage (MAMS) module to support statisticians designing these studies.  In this blog, we take a high level look at some of the features and advantages of this approach.  

Topics: East, Adaptive Clinical Trials, Multi-Arm Studies, Multi-Arm Multi-Stage Studies, EAST 6.4

Professor LJ Wei holds that rules are for lawyers, not (necessarily) clinicians. When designing modern clinical trials, the impetus is often to use “efficient and reliable procedures, to obtain clinically interpretable results with respect to risk-benefit analysis…” Yet these efficient and reliable procedures are often just conventions and rules that provide information that is incomplete or...

Topics: East, East 6.3, Access to Slides PDF, Trial Design, Trial Monitoring, Training and Education, Predictive Enrichment, Precision Medicine, Translational Statistics, Translational Medicine

Every year, the East Users Group Meeting brings together notable experts from industry and academia to discuss the future of biostatistical advances in clinical trials, as well as the role of software in facilitating these breakthroughs. In honor of this year’s event, which will be taking place at the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia on October 22, the Cytel Blog will spend the next couple of weeks...

Topics: East, East 6.3, Statistical Programming, Statistical Puzzles, Statistical Analysis, Cardiovascular

 

The FDA’s Tatiana Prowell (Breast Cancer Scientific Lead in the Office of Hematology  & Oncology Products) recently gave an interview to the Nature Review Drug Discovery, in which she discusses the top three pitfalls faced by drug developers in oncology. Issues which Prowell cite include: selection of appropriate dosage, trial designs without...

Topics: Oncology, East, Regulation, FDA, East PREDICT, Predictive Enrichment, Interim Analyses, Prediction

A new JAMA study on discontinued randomized trials in Switzerland, Germany and Canada, reports that poor recruitment accounts for 101 out of 253 trials that were eventually discontinued (or about 10% of the 1017 trials which participated in the study). When restricted to industry-sponsored trials with non-healthy volunteers, poor recruitment accounted for the discontinuation of 40 trials out...

Topics: Nitin Patel, East, East 6.3, Access to Slides PDF, Recruitment, East Recruit, Sample Size, Promising Zone, sample size re-estimation, Adaptive Clinical Trials