
Perspectives on Enquiry & Evidence
Cytel's blog featuring the latest industry insights.

July 20, 2021
Anil Golla is Vice President, Functional Service Provision (FSP) at Cytel. After 17 years of working at pharmaceutical...
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April 26, 2021
Why you should not miss 2021 Virtual CDISC EU Interchange?
As we all continue to take necessary precautions against the spread of COVID-19 virus, this year again the CDISC EU...
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February 24, 2021
Avoiding Lost-in-Translation with Submission Terminology
In a previous post, I discussed the importance of proper use of CDISC Controlled Terminology (CDISC CT) in SDTM....
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January 28, 2021
A little walk in the CDISC Library, hand in hand with SAS
The Christmas break presented an opportunity to make my first concrete steps into the CDISC Library. Overall, it was a...
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December 18, 2020
Submitting Software Programs to the Regulatory Agencies
Can I submit software programs other than SAS? What software programs should I submit? Are sponsors required to submit...
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August 18, 2020
Career Perspectives: Interview with Mrudula Joshi, Associate Director, Statistical Programming Services
Mrudula Joshi joined Cytel in July 2005 as a young SAS programmer. Last month, she celebrated her 15th year work...
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July 16, 2018
Case Study:Creating an Effective Functional Services Partnership
In this blog we share a case study of how we established and ramped up a functional service outsourcing partnership for...
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April 18, 2018
Developing the Next Generation of Skills for Statistical Programmers
Our recent Clinical Biometrics Survey explored the views of respondents from across the statistical programming,...
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January 9, 2018
Career Perspectives: Interview with Lisa Goldberg, Associate Director of Statistical Programming
Our Career Perspectives' series is back! Cytel has industry-leading experts in statistical programming with years of...
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May 26, 2017
Cytel statistical programmer gains recognition at PharmaSUG 2017
PharmaSUG 2017 proved to be an inspirational and informative event. With over 200 paper presentations, posters, and...
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February 21, 2017
Syntax and Variables in R: A Primer
In a previous blog, we provided an overview of basic data structures in R. In this follow up piece, we will provide a...
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January 19, 2017
Data Structures in R: A Primer
R is on the rise in biopharma, and as we have previously discussed on the blog, it is now time for SAS programmers to...
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January 5, 2017
SAS and NONMEM - a marriage made in heaven?
Nonlinear Mixed Effects Modeling (NONMEM) is a type of population pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (popPK/PD) analysis...
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October 13, 2016
The evolving role of the modern statistical programmer
Statistical programmers play a key role in turning the data from clinical trials into knowledge and supporting the...
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July 25, 2016
5 trends a statistical programmer needs to follow
Statistical programmers are in high demand within the biopharmaceutical industry, and within the dynamic world of...
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July 5, 2016
PROC MCPMod in Bronchodilator Case Study
At a recent PhUSE SDE, Cytel’s Chitra Tirodkar presented how East PROC MCPMod could be used to help solve the problem...
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June 21, 2016
Sharpening your Advanced SAS Skills: Interview with Sunil Gupta
Sunil is an Associate Director of Statistical Programming at Cytel and has over twenty-five years of experience in the...
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