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: 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

 

In this blog, we talk with Heiko Götte, Senior Expert Biostatistician at Merck about his upcoming presentation at Cytel’s East User Group Meeting on 14th and 15th November at Merck Darmstadt, in Germany. The topic Heiko will address is Decision Making in Development Programs with Targeted Therapies and he explains to us why this is a key topic for pharmaceutical companies today as they...

Topics: Adaptive Clinical Trials, Trial Design, phase 2, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Simulations, East, adaptive designs, Bayesian Methods, Phase I, Biomarkers, go-no-go

 

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

 

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

 

By Esha Senchaudhuri

In response to its R&D productivity from 2005 – 2010, AstraZeneca took the initiative in 2011 to implement what it has called the 5R Framework to strengthen its capabilities. In a Perspectives article from Nature Reviews Drug Discovery [1], Paul Morgan and his team provided complex details about the success of this framework from the perspective of every stage of drug...

Topics: Program and Portfolio Optimization, quantitative decision-making, clinical development

 

Cytel's new Trial Innovations Webinar Series provides a platform for the most promising new statistical approaches helping to bridge the gap from methodology to implementation. Ultimately, our goal is to enable our audience to improve their chances of success in clinical development.

The series got underway in August with a webinar on ‘Phase 2 Trial Designs using Program-level Simulations,...

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

 

 

Cost of pharmaceutical development and R&D productivity is an ongoing industry concern, consistently discussed in the mainstream and specialist press.  The issue is held in delicate balance against the increasing pressure on pharmaceutical pricing and cost containment measures.

A study by Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development published earlier this year in the Journal of Health...

Topics: Phase 1, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Phase 3, phase 2, go-no-go, clinical development

Topics: Cyrus Mehta, Promising Zone, Cytel Strategic Consulting, Interim Analyses, Program and Portfolio Optimization, Cardiovascular, Clinical Development Strategy

When designing clinical trials, many trial designers are advised to keep the trial simple. Prima facie, the keep it simple principle seems like sound advice. There are various logistical uncertainties that arise when implementing a clinical trial, and the more simple a trial – so conventional wisdom says – the easier it is to respond to these uncertainties.

According to Zoran Antonijevic, a...

Topics: Oncology, Promising Zone, sample size re-estimation, Enrichment, Cytel Consulting, Efficacy, Interim Analyses, forecasting, optimization, Program and Portfolio Optimization, R&D, Adaptive Clinical Trials

As more clinical trials make use of adaptive designs, investors have come to realize that high quality trial designs can result in significant improvements to a trial’s financial risk profile. Regardless of a trial’s eventual success or failure, a well-constructed design provides a drug with the highest possible probability of success while mitigating financial risk.

Topics: Nitin Patel, Cyrus Mehta, Promising Zone, Trial Quality, Cytel Strategic Consulting, Trial Design, Entrepreneurship, Program and Portfolio Optimization, R&D, Adaptive Clinical Trials