Cytel Blog

The Cytel Trial Design Innovations (CTDI) Webinar Series recently hosted a webinar on designing event-based studies. Such studies are essential to designing high-efficiency clinical trials in certain therapeutic areas, but they add a number of challenges to the already complex landscape of adaptive trials.

The webinar was held on January 23rd, featuring Biostatistician and pioneering Bayesian trial-designer Pantelis Vlachos. We had the opportunity to sit down with Dr. Vlachos and speak about innovative trial designs and their benefits, adaptations and interim looks in oncology and cardiovascular, the challenges of designing event-based studies more generally, and how Cytel’s array of software tools, particularly East^®, has enabled trial sponsors to fully consider their options in the design of high-efficiency clinical trials.

PhUSE 2017 took place in Scotland’s capital city Edinburgh, 8th - 11th October, and brought together a range of experts to tackle the most pressing issues facing statistical programmers today.  We found this year's event informative and well attended. In this blog we share some highlights from the sessions and posters the Cytel team attended.  We will share Cytel's own contributions in a separate article.

The Society for Clinical Data Management (SCDM) conference landed in Orlando last week providing insights and key trends for clinical data managers from around the world.  In this blog we share an infographic of some of the agenda highlights along with a more detailed overview of our Alla Muchnik's contribution to the session Study Medication Compliance: Data Collection Challenges. 

Last month, Cytel statisticians headed to Baltimore for the Joint Statistical Meetings and shared some of their latest research and insights.  In this blog we will summarize our highlights -both from Cytel contributions and the sessions Cytel delegates attended. We also provide access to the valuable slide decks from the Cytel authored presentations. 

With adaptive and innovative trial designs on the rise, operational implementation of interim analyses, including management of Independent Data Monitoring Committees is increasingly important.  In this blog, we will share a case study of how Cytel provided a client with seamless Independent Data Monitoring Committee support encompassing committee selection and management, independent statistical services, and ACES software. 

Cytel's Madhusmita Panda presented at this year’s PSI Conference in the Innovative Methodology session on the topic of ‘Measuring Intergroup Agreement and Disagreement’.

In this blog, we share the context, abstract and slides from Panda’s presentation. 

James (Jim) Bolognese, Senior Director, Strategic Consulting, Clinical Services at Cytel Inc. was named a 2017 fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Jim will be officially honored by the ASA at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Baltimore, Maryland this summer.

PSI is a global member organization dedicated to leading and promoting best practice and industry initiatives for statisticians in the biopharmaceutical industry.  2017 marks a significant milestone for the organization's PSI conference as it hits its 40th year of promoting statistical insight. This is reflected in its status as the key event on the calendar for statisticians in the biopharmaceutical industry in Europe and beyond.

With less than a week to go until the 2017 event gets underway in London,14th - 17th May 2017, we chatted with Lucy Rowell, this year’s Conference Chair to get the scoop on the secrets of the conference’s success, this year’s hot topics, and her insider insights into the keynotes and workshops.  

 As a recognized expert in adaptive trials, Cytel has extensive experience designing and managing trials with interim analyses.  To ensure success in what are often complex studies, data management as well as statistical expertise is required.  Cytel data managers are well versed in the various nuances and demands of managing the successful delivery of an interim analysis from a data collection point of view. 

Success from the data management standpoint depends on three core elements- effective timeline management, thoughtful database design, and a proactive approach to data cleaning. In this blog, Patti Arsenault, our Global Head of Data Management shares her thoughts.