Perspectives on Enquiry & Evidence

Cytel's blog featuring the latest industry insights.

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Innovative Clinical Trial Design: Commercial vs Open-Source Software? Why Not Both?

In the ever-changing field of clinical trial design, there is often a need to evaluate design options quickly and efficiently. But when it comes to evaluating options, which is better: commercial or open-source software? And does it need to be a question of either-or?

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Perspectives on Enquiry and Evidence

December 21, 2020

Year-End Roundup: Your Favorite Blog Posts of 2020

2020 has been an unusually difficult year as the global pandemic impacted all of our lives. This year, the Cytel blog...

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August 4, 2020

Estimands and their Implications on Clinical Studies

Last year, Paul Terrill, Associate Principal of Strategic Consulting at Cytel, presented an engaging webinar on the...

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December 18, 2019

Year-End Roundup: Your Favorite Blog Posts of 2019

With only two weeks left for this fabulous year to end, we would like to thank all our blog subscribers and new readers...

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February 28, 2019

Statistical Approaches to Overcome Challenges in Rare Disease Development

In honor of Rare Disease Day 2019 we share a new Cytel podcast featuring Cytel Strategic Consultant Ursula Garczarek...

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February 21, 2019

Podcast with Ursula Garczarek on The Effective Statistician

In 2018, Cytel ran a qualitative survey among biostatisticians and programmers on trends in data science and...

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January 30, 2019

Career Perspectives: Interview with Tina Checchio, Associate Director, Quantitative Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics

QPP remains at the heart of model based drug development. Short for Quantitative Pharmacology & Pharmacometrics, it...

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October 23, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Munshi Imran Hossain, Senior Data Scientist

Cytel data scientists apply advanced statistical techniques including predictive modeling of biological processes and...

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September 20, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Adam Hamm, Director of Biostatistics

At Cytel we believe that expert statistical input has the power to shape the future of clinical development: de-risking...

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August 23, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Meredith Alm, Manager, QA Compliance

Cytel has grown significantly over the last 30 years, with operations across North America, Europe, and India. All of...

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August 1, 2018

Building interactive web applications using R Shiny

By Gordhan Bagri and Munshi Imran Hossain with H A S Shri Kishore Shiny (from RStudio) is one of the most popular R...

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July 27, 2018

Infographic: 5 Key Interactions of Data Management and Statistics

In this blog, we share a new infographic based on this popular blog post illustrating some of the critical interactions...

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July 24, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Sam Hsiao, Associate Director, Strategic Consulting

At Cytel our strategic consulting team works on a wide range of projects including: Identifying the best clinical trial...

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July 18, 2018

Recent Publication: On shapes of ADR report accumulation data

A recent article published by Cytel authors Samadhan Ghubade, Sharayu Paranjpe, Kushagra Gupta, Anil Gore and colleague...

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March 16, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Benjamin Esterni, Principal Biostatistician

At Cytel we believe that expert statistical input has the power to shape the future of clinical development: de-risking...

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February 21, 2018

Developing efficient tools for ADaM dataset creation

By Diganta Bose, Statistical Programming Team Lead at Cytel Editor's note: This blog is based on work presented at...

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February 15, 2018

A Gatekeeping Procedure to Test a Group Sequential Design

A recent publication in Biometrics ‘A Gatekeeping Procedure to Test a Primary and a Secondary Endpoint in a Group...

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February 13, 2018

Career Perspectives: Interview with Ursula Garczarek, Associate Director - Strategic Consulting

Our strategic consulting team work on projects such as: Identifying the best clinical trial design, implementing...

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February 6, 2018

Life in Programming: Interview With Ajay Sathe

We were excited to learn recently that Ajay Sathe, the CEO of our India Operations, was awarded lifetime honorary...

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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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December 19, 2017

Evidence that Pollution Accelerates Skin Aging in Consumer Goods Trial

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December 12, 2017

Signal Management Using R

Signal management is one of the most audited pharmacovigilance processes. It also generates one of the highest findings...

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November 22, 2017

Career Perspectives: Interview with Makarand Deshmukh, Senior Clinical Data Analyst

Cytel offers a full range of clinical data management services and the team of experts is spread across the globe. In...

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September 29, 2017

Career Perspectives: Interview with Namrata Deshpande, Senior Team Lead

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

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June 12, 2017

Predictions of Pharmacodynamic Responses in Ulcerative Colitis Patient

The Population Approach Group in Europe (PAGE) represents a community with a shared interest in data analysis using the...

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June 8, 2017

Measuring Intergroup Agreement and Disagreement

Cytel's Madhusmita Panda presented at this year’s PSI Conference in the Innovative Methodology session on the topic of...

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May 30, 2017

Interview: How can a Bayesian framework support benefit risk assessment?

A recent paper The case for Bayesian methods in benefit-risk assessment: Overview and future directions (1) co-authored...

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May 22, 2017

Jim Bolognese named 2017 American Statistical Association Fellow

James (Jim) Bolognese, Senior Director, Strategic Consulting, Clinical Services at Cytel Inc. was named a 2017 fellow...

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November 11, 2016

How to ensure independence of QC in statistical programming

A solid and robust QC process is one vital component of ensuring quality programming delivery. Angelo Tinazzi and...

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October 27, 2015

P-Values & Pharma Development: We Want to Hear from You

Here at Cytel we have enjoyed following the debates on the p-value controversy currently taking place on the ASA...

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September 29, 2015

5 Skills Needed by All Highly Effective Statisticians

The Head of the DIA’s Adaptive Design Working Group Asks Us to Consider 5 ‘Soft-Skills’ All Effective Statisticians...

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October 21, 2014

Clinical Impact Beyond 'Time to First' Analyses

Every year, the East Users Group Meeting brings together notable experts from industry and academia to discuss the...

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August 5, 2014

Reflections on Statistical Entrepreneurship: An Interview with Nitin Patel

Cytel CTO Nitin Patel, recently sat down with ECHOES (a magazine for statistics in clinical trials) to discuss his...

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