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ICSA 2010 SYMPOSIUM ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS<br />

ROUND TABLE DISCUSSIONS<br />

Round Table L1: Implementation Issues of Adaptive Design Clinical Trials<br />

Discussion Leader(s): Dr. Cyrus Mehta, Dr. Jason Connor<br />

Location and Time: Vision, Monday, June 21, 2010, 12:20 p.m.–1:20 p.m.<br />

Abstract: In this roundtable we discuss benefits and challenges of adaptive designs. Regulatory<br />

agencies are increasingly amenable to adaptive designs and Berry Consultants and Cytel both have<br />

extensive experience in working with pharmaceutical and medical device companies in designing<br />

adaptive clinical trials within the regulatory setting. This entails creating flexible, prospectively adaptive<br />

trials that also maintain statistical integrity. Depending upon the interests of participants we will discuss<br />

our experiences with adaptive designs, their benefits, the additional infrastructure they require, and our<br />

interactions with regulators (e.g. FDA, EMEA) regarding adaptive designs.<br />

About Discussion Leader(s): Dr. Cyrus Mehta was born in Bombay, India. He studied<br />

engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in 1973. Dr.<br />

Mehta is President and co-founder of Cytel Corporation and Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard<br />

University. Cytel is a leading provider of software and services for the design, interim monitoring and<br />

implementation of adaptive clinical trials. Dr. Mehta consults extensively with the biopharmaceutical<br />

industry on group sequential and adaptive design, offers workshops on these topics, and sits on several<br />

data monitoring committees for these types of clinical trials. He has led the development of the StatXact,<br />

LogXact and East software packages that are widely used in the biopharmaceutical industry and at<br />

academic research centers. He publishes his methodological research results in leading statistics journals<br />

and is a past co-winner of the George W. Snedecor Award from the American <strong>Statistical</strong> <strong>Association</strong> for<br />

the best paper in biometry. He was elected a Fellow of the American <strong>Statistical</strong> <strong>Association</strong> in 1995 and<br />

named the Mosteller Statistician of the Year by the Massachusetts Chapter of the American <strong>Statistical</strong><br />

<strong>Association</strong> in 2000. In 2002, Dr. Mehta was named Outstanding Zoroastrian Entrepreneur by the World<br />

Zoroastrian Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Mehta is the Zoroastrian Chaplain at Harvard and MIT.<br />

Contact information: Cytel Inc. 675 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139,<br />

mehta@cytel.com, 617-661-2011, www.cytel.com.<br />

Dr. Jason Connor received his PhD in Statistics & Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University and<br />

his BS in Biomedical Engineering from Texas A&M University. He is uniquely trained as a biomedical<br />

engineer and a Bayesian biostatistician. Dr. Connor has worked for Berry Consultants since 2006<br />

designing Bayesian adaptive trials for clients from a wide range of pharmaceutical and medical device<br />

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