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Adaptive Designs in Clinical Drug Development
2 February - 3 February 2011
Adaptive Designs in Clinical Drug Development

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The conference...

After the success of last year's conference, SAE Media Group is proud to present its 5th annual Adaptive Designs in Clinical Drug Development.

This conference is aimed at exploring the potential of adaptive trials now and in the future through looking at the process, from design through to implementation.

Taking place in central London, UK, you will hear presentations from the key players in the adaptive arena on the big questions adaptive design.  Is an adaptive design suitable for my needs?  What is the regulatory position on adaptive design?  How do I build in adaption to my design?  Will a seamless design prove any benefit?  What are the logistical and practical implications of running an adaptive trial?  Where is the future for adaptive designs?

Attend this event to learn what adaptive designs can add to your clinical drug development experience.

Why not attend the associated workshops as well?

Associated with the conference there will be two half-day workshops taking place on 1st February

  • Morning - Design and Analysis of Adaptive Clinical Trials - Hosted by Les Huson, Senior Statistical Consultant in Clinical Trials, Statistical Advisory Service, Imperial College London 
  • Afternoon - Finding the Right Dose - Are Adaptive Designs Better? - Hosted by Cytel Inc

Led by leaders in their field, these workshops are an excellent opportunity to explore in a more intimate and interactive setting issues which will be discussed at the conference. Subjects covered include statistical and practical issues to be considered when planning an adaptive trial, strategies for successfully analyising the results of an adaptive trial, and a specific look at the use of adaptive designs for dose-finding studies. To see more information about the workshops, please see the adaptive designs workshops page.

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KOL 1

Day One

Jennifer Dudinak
Global Head, Inflammation, Regulatory Affairs
Roche

Day Two

Marc Vandemeulebroecke
Project Lead and Expert Statistician
Novartis

Who is speaking at this event?

Our keynote speakers

Alun Bedding
Director, Biostatistics and Programming Development Partners, Drug Development Sciences
GlaxoSmithKline

Pavel Pisa
Translational Medicine Leader
Roche

Marc Vandemeulebroecke
Project Lead and Expert Statistician
Novartis

Jennifer Dudinak
Global Head, Inflammation, Regulatory Affairs
Roche

Chris Jennison
Professor of Statistics
University of Bath

Robert Cuffe
Statistician
GlaxoSmithKline

 

To see the full agenda for the event, click here.

Our expert speakers

Melissa Mitchener, Global Study Manager, Roche

David Manner, Group Leader, Endocrine Exploratory and Program Medical Statistics, Eli Lilly

Pierre Gervais, President and Executive Director, Q&T Research

Catarina Mattsson, Project Lead, AstraZeneca

Jack Corman, President, IRB Services

Lisa Hampson, Research Associate, School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol

Paul Jordan, Senior Statistician, Roche

Annette Sauter, Roche

Eric Derobert, Statistician, Sanofi-Aventis

Fanny Windenberger, Statistician, Sanofi-Aventis

James Bolognese, Senior Director for Clinical Trial Services, Cytel Inc

Dose-finding study

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration and coffee

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9:00

Welcome and introductions

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9:10

Overview of the main types of adaptive clinical trial

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9:50

Key statistical issues in adaptive trials

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10:30

Coffee break

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10:50

Regulatory and logistical considerations

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11:30

Practical implementation - review of software and methods

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12:10

Discussion and questions

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12:30

End of workshop

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13:10

Workshop sessions begin

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13:30

Registration and coffee

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14:00

Welcome and introductions

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14:10

Workshop sessions begin

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15:30

Coffee break

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15:50

Workshop sessions continue

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16:30

Q&A and discussion

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17:00

End of workshop

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8:30

Registration and coffee

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9:00

Chairman's opening remarks

Jennifer Dudinak

Jennifer Dudinak, Global Head, Inflammation, Regulatory Affairs, Roche

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9:10

Implementing an adaptive design: the investigative site perspective

Pierre Gervais

Pierre Gervais, President and Executive Director, Q&T Research

  • Patient access with complex design studies and maintaining patient trust
  • Organisation and structures - study schedule, data entry, queries, volume of supplies
  • Taking advantage of the challenges
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    9:50

    Adaptive design and operational impact

    Melissa Mitchener

    Melissa Mitchener, Global Study Manager, Roche

  • Need to understand the operational perspective of an adaptive design
  • Issues with operational aspects of adaptive clinical trials
  • Case study example
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    10:30

    Morning coffee

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    11:00

    Co-ordination and trial planning: maximising the benefits of an adaptive design through effective management

    Catarina Mattsson

    Catarina Mattsson, Project Lead, AstraZeneca

  • Critical insight into the breakdown of people involved in an adaptive rather than a traditional trial: preparing for a more flexible operation
  • Co-ordinating more people under increased time pressure: maximising your efficiency in order to take best advantage of the potential benefits
  • Ensuring that your study managers are equipped to deal with adaptive trials: establishing the training implications
  • Adapting communication strategy to ensure that with increased numbers of investigators involved, protocol amendments can be made quickly in order to save time and resources
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    11:40

    The question of ethics

    Jack Corman

    Jack Corman, President, IRB Services

  • Adaptive designs pose a difficult problem for ethics review boards
  • Ethical review during a trial - for each change?
  • Keeping lines of communication open
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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    13:50

    Developing internal regulatory guidance for adaptive trials

    Jennifer Dudinak

    Jennifer Dudinak, Global Head, Inflammation, Regulatory Affairs, Roche

  • Current Health Authority guidance
  • Points to consider: Partnering with internal stakeholders; engaging with Health Authorities
  • Strategic internal planning
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    14:30

    A perspective on the draft FDA adaptive designs guidance

    Marc Vandemeulebroecke

    Marc Vandemeulebroecke, Expert Statistician, Novartis

  • Emerging FDA position on the implementation of adaptive designs in adequate and well-controlled studies
  • In what situations can adaptive designs be considered; what features make an adaptive design more or less controversial; what requirements are to be fulfilled by an adaptive design
  • Comments and perspectives from the IBS German and AustroSwiss working group
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    15:10

    Afternoon tea

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    15:40

    Statistical inference after an adaptive trial

    Chris Jennison

    Chris Jennison, Professor of Statistics, University of Bath

  • Gaining a better and fuller analysis after an adaptive clinical trial
  • Confidence intervals
  • Point estimation
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    16:20

    Detecting real treatment effects - an example from oncology

    Pavel Pisa

    Pavel Pisa, Translational Medicine Leader, Roche

  • Traditional designs fail where patients can switch between treatments
  • Conventional intention-to-treat analysis vs. adaptive designs
  • Avoiding unnecessary termination of investigation of a promising candidate
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    17:00

    Chairman’s closing remarks and close of day one

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    8:30

    Re-registration and coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's opening remarks

    Robert Cuffe

    Robert Cuffe, Statistician, Infectious Diseases, Medicine Development Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

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    9:10

    New designs – merging phase IIb and III

    Robert Cuffe

    Robert Cuffe, Statistician, Infectious Diseases, Medicine Development Centre, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Reducing the time required for clinical studies
  • When is merging the right choice?
  • Challenges of getting it right
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    9:50

    Majesty and misery of interim dose selection

  • In inferential phase II/III seamless designs, an interim analysis allows selection of doses to be kept until the end of the trial
  • By sequentially using the information, this adaptive design is expected to be more efficient than ordinary fixed designs.  This design can also be used for a full phase II study devoted to the choice of 1 or 2 doses in a future phase III study
  • After discretising and constraining the usual case of three doses candidates, the research articulates in two stages:
  • (1) Identifying the best multiple comparison procedures to be used in fixed design analyses
  • (2) Combining these chosen procedures for adaptive designs and comparing their performance with that obtained for fixed designs
  • There is a particular focus on the comparative effect of unbalancing treatment groups in fixed and adaptive designs - the problem of the latency period is also considered
  • Eric Derobert

    Eric Derobert, Statistician, Sanofi-Aventis

    Fanny Windenberger

    Fanny Windenberger, Statistician, Sanofi-Aventis

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    10:30

    Morning coffee

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    11:00

    Developing a simulation plan and simulation report

    David Manner

    David Manner, Group Leader, Exploratory and Programme Medical Statistics, Eli Lilly

  • When designing a clinical trial, one needs to understand the performance metrics for a given design
  • This is of particular importance for adaptive trials where one needs to consider many factors and how the results will depend on certain design choices
  • Simulations are a key tool in evaluating the performance metrics of these choices in adaptive designs
  • A simulation plan is extremely helpful in deciding on which design factors will vary and which will remain fixed
  • Additionally one can describe how several competing designs will be assessed and compared with one another
  • The Simulation Report summarised the performance metrics of the simulations and provides rationale as to why the design was chosen
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    11:40

    Get the dose right

    James Bolognese

    James Bolognese, Senior Director for Clinical Trial Services, Cytel

  • Best approaches and recent applications for designing adaptive dose-finding trials
  • Why it's important to study more than one dose and which specific adaptive approaches are particularly well suited
  • A comparative look at the most popular design methods for adaptive dose finding - both frequentist and Bayesian - and their relative strengths and weaknesses
  • Simulation-driven decision-making: comparing different trial design options to arrive at the study best qualified to achieve developmental objectives
  • Scenarios and the considerations for combining/consolidating traditionally separate studies into a single adaptive study: integrating PoC with dose-finding in a single trial
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    12:20

    Networking lunch

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    13:50

    Group sequential tests for delayed response: a case study

    Lisa Hampson

    Lisa Hampson, Research Associate in Medical Statistics, University Of Bristol

  • Current group sequential tests stop with a final decision once a stopping rule is satisfied
  • However, often the response of clinical interest is to be measured some time after commencement of treatment, meaning there will be subjects at each interim analysis who have been randomised to a treatment but are yet to respond
  • We derive a new form of group sequential test which gives a proper treatment to these "pipeline" subjects
  • We use optimal versions of our designs to measure the impact on efficiency of the length of delay in response
  • We discuss the use of adaptive group sequential procedures for monitoring delayed responses, concentrating on two-stage designs
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    14:30

    Case study: combined phase I/PoC study with adaptive dose selection

  • A combined MAD and POC study
  • Planned trial
  • Key design features
  • Benefits of the design
  • Paul Jordan

    Paul Jordan, Senior Statistician, Roche

    Annette Sauter

    Annette Sauter, , Roche

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    15:10

    The use of efficient trial design in Phase II to choose the right dose in Phase III

    Alun Bedding

    Alun Bedding, Director, Biostatistics and Programming Development Partners, Drug Development Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline

  • Objective of Phase II is to choose the dose for later confirmatory studies
  • According to the FDA - 20% of post approval changes were to the dose
  • Large number of compound failures in Phase III - dose finding is clearly not done in the most efficient manner
  • Model-based designs, coupled with Bayesian methods and adaptive designs (where appropriate) can improve dose finding by modelling the whole of the dose response curve
  • The talk will highlight the use of model-based approaches and illustrate using real-life examples
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    15:50

    Chairman’s closing remarks

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    16:00

    Afternoon tea and close of conference

    Workshops

    Design and Analysis of Adaptive Clinical Trials

    Design and Analysis of Adaptive Clinical Trials

    Crowne Plaza - The City
    1 February 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    Finding the Right Dose – Are Adaptive Designs Better?

    Finding the Right Dose – Are Adaptive Designs Better?

    Crowne Plaza - The City
    1 February 2011
    London, United Kingdom

    Crowne Plaza - The City

    19 New Bridge Road
    London EC4V 6DB
    United Kingdom

    Crowne Plaza - The City

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