ACDRS 2026 Session 4: Statistics: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation of Clinical Trials

Statistics: Design, Analysis & Interpretation of Clinical Trials
Session Co-chairs: Telba Irony, J&J Innovative Medicine & John Scott, US FDA

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Topics

  • Role of confirmatory phase in drug development
  • Statistical principles for clinical trials
  • Choice of control groups in clinical trials
  • Study objectives, hypothesis testing, sample size, and probability of study success
  • Multiplicity in clinical trials
  • Missing data and estimands
  • Interim analysis
  • Bayesian statistics
  • The design, analysis, and interpretation of a clinical endpoint trial
  • Modeling and simulation
  • Adaptive design in clinical trials and optimization
  • Design and analysis of adaptive clinical trials
  • Enrichment designs
  • Perspectives for developing a targeted medicine
  • Co-development of a diagnostic and targeted medicine
  • Statistical issues related to design, analysis, and reporting of gene therapy clinical trials
  • Statistical issues related to design, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials in rare disease and in pediatrics
  • Safety assessment and surveillance
  • Pharmacovigilance

Speakers

  • Telba Irony, PhD, Senior Scientific Director, Quantitative Sciences, J&J Innovative Medicine
  • David Ohlssen, PhD, Head of Advanced Exploratory Analytics, Novartis
  • Richard Payne, PhD, Immunology Lead, Clinical Design Statistics, Eli Lilly and Company
  • John Scott, PhD, Director, Division of Biostatistics, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), US Food and Drug Administration (to be confirmed)
  • Kert Viele, PhD, Senior Statistical Scientist, Berry Consultants
  • Janet Wittes, PhD, Affiliate Professor of Biostatistics, Department of Population Health, Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University
  • Others to be confirmed