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In our previous blog, “Remote Working Arrangement – How to get it right?”, we talked about how the need for social distancing has led most of the employers, across the globe, to make work-from-home arrangements for their employees. As we continue to stay indoors and combat COVID-19, keeping aside some time every day to read and watch useful resources on important industry topics can be very helpful. Cytel's team of oncology trial design and advanced analytics experts have been hosting a series of complimentary webinars covering a range of innovative topics including adaptive design, machine learning, estimands and trial design software. In this post, we offer you a recap of the webinars we conducted in the past few weeks. You can register for the upcoming webinars in our oncology series by clicking on the button below.

Cytel's team of oncology trial design and advanced analytics experts are hosting a series of complimentary webinars covering a range of innovative topics and solutions. On April 28, 2020, Cytel conducted a webinar with Professor Martin Fey, Medical Oncologist, “A Clinician’s Perspective on Cancer Drugs Development”. Our previous blog features an interview with Professor Fey where he talks about his experience of over forty years in medical oncology, the evolution of clinical cancer trials, the difference between clinically meaningful and statistically significant results, the debate around patient perspectives and other important topics around cancer drugs development.

In his webinar, Professor Fey provides us an overview of drug development for cancer treatments, clinician’s perspective on endpoints, importance of patient reported outcomes and patient perspective, and the significance of biomarkers. Continue reading this post for key highlights from the webinar.

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Cytel is hosting a webinar, “A Clinician’s Perspective on Cancer Drugs Development”, on April 28, 2020. Our speaker, Professor Martin Fey, Medical Oncologist from Switzerland, will brief us on treatment evolution and give us a deep dive into clinician perspective on endpoints, PRO and patients perspectives, and importance of biomarkers in oncology.

In this interview, we speak to Professor Fey about his experience of over forty years in medical oncology, the evolution of clinical cancer trials, the difference between clinically meaningful and statistically significant results, the debate around patient perspectives and other important topics around cancer drugs development.

 Quantitative pharmacology encompasses the many strategic advantages of using complex mathematical models to understand biochemical relationships that ultimately improve clinical decision-making. This includes pharmacometric modeling, familiar to those who have used pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) modeling to improve dosage decisions, and the extension of such models to the performance of meta-analyses, the construction of decision rules, and other uses involving a broad array of cases. In this blog we summarize some key areas of opportunity. 

In this blog, we talk with Robert Greene, Founder and President of the HungerNDThirst Foundation, about his upcoming presentation at Cytel’s East User Group Meeting on 14th and 15th November at Merck in Darmstadt, Germany. Robert will bring a fresh perspective to the discussion of the role statisticians can play in enhancing the position of patients in clinical trials. Patient-centricity is a key topic in modern drug development, and this session aims to encourage statisticians to question the importance of a more patient-centric approach within their field.