Published

July 15, 2024

Recordings

Recordings of those sessions where all presenters have given consent (Sessions 5 might be added later, pending speaker consent):

Number Session Link
(if available)
1 Regulatory and HTA update x
2 Synthetic and other baseline covariates: The promise of smaller and faster clinical trials through prognostic digital twins x
3 Complex innovative trials for regulatory decision-making x
4 How to get most out of Scientific Advice x
5 Use of non-RCT studies in regulatory decision-making x
6 Short Topics x

Material

Opening

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1 Justine Rochon (Boehringer Ingelheim, EFSPI president) Opening remarks x

Session 1: Regulatory and HTA update

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1 Kristin Karlsson (Swedish Medical Products Agency, Uppsala University, EMA, Vice-chair MWP) EMA Methodology Working Party update x
2 Eftychia-Eirini Psarelli (University of Liverpool, EMA) EMA update on submission of individual patient data from clinical trials x
3 David McConnell (Statistician National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, Ireland, Methodology Subgroup of HTA CG) Update on joint HTA work under the EU HTA Regulation x

Short topics

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1 Fredrik Öhrn (Janssen) Formal statistical requirements for a pivotal trial to support approval of a combination drug x
2 Betty Molloy (Novartis) Use of RWE in drug labelling x
3 Patrick Schloemer (Bayer) Hierarchical Composite Endpoints for Chronic Kidney Disease Trials x
4 Simon Wandel (Novartis) What’s the rule for the pool? x
5 Sandro Gsteiger (Roche) and Anders Gorst-Rasmussen (Novo Nordisk on behalf of the PSI/EFSPI HTA Special Interest Group) Surrogate endpoints - can EMA and EU HTA align on common standards? x
6 Susan Robson (Roche) Data Quality issues in IITs x

Session 2: Synthetic and other baseline covariates: The promise of smaller and faster clinical trials through prognostic digital twins

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1 Andreas Brandt (BfArM, EMA) Covariate Adjustment: Traditional principles and challenges by new approaches x
2 Courtney Schiffman (Genentech Roche) Strategic considerations and value of covariate adjustment x
3 Daniel Rubin (FDA) Adjusting for covariates in randomized clinical trials for drugs and biological products x

Session 3: Complex innovative trials for regulatory decision-making

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1 Khadija Rantell (MHRA), Frank Bretz (Novartis), Hans Ulrich Burger (Roche) Some guidance on when applying adaptive designs x
2 Wolfgang Jacquet (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, EMA) and Benjamin Hofner (Paul-Ehrlich Institut, EMA) Platform trials in a confirmatory regulatory setting – generating thoughts and directions x
3 Dieter Haering (Novartis) Experience with and learnings from regulatory interactions around innovative trial designs based on the NEOS study x

Session 4: How to get most out of Scientific Advice

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1 Tommi Nurminen (fimea, EMA) and Antero Kallio (fimea, EMA) How to efficiently leverage scientific advice - a joint statistical and clinical perspective x
2 Gergő Merész (Co-Chair of the JSC Subgroup (HTA R)) HTA Joint Scientific Consultation x
3 David Wright (AstraZeneca) Tips on a) what questions to ask regulators and HTAs, b) interpreting the answers given and c) what to do when different authorities give conflicting advice x

Session 5: Use of non-RCT studies in regulatory decision-making

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1 Kit Roes (Radboud Universiteit, EMA) Single Arm Trials: The EMA Reflection Paper x
2 Mark Levenson (FDA) United States FDA Real World Evidence Program: A Quick Tour x
3 Pallavi Mishra-Kalyani (FDA) Regulatory Issues with the Use of External Controls and the US FDA RWE Program x
4 Emmanuel Zuber (Novartis) External control for approval and labeling: Two case studies trying to figure out when it is worth it x
4 Stefan Lange (IQWiG) HTA view on the EMA draft reflection paper and the FDA guidance x

Posters

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1 EFSPI / PSI & ASA biopharmaceutical section oncology estimand working group (conditional marginal taskforce) Conditional and Unconditional treatment effects in randomized clinical trials: trials: EstimandsEstimands, Estimation, and Interpretation, Estimation, and Interpretation x
2 EFSPI / PSI Regulatory SIG Regulatory ESIG x
3 EFPIA / EFSPI estimand implementation working group How the “Estimand Implementation Working Group” brings together statisticians and clinicians to support the estimand journeystatisticians and clinicians to support the estimand journey x
4 EFSPI / PSI biomarker SIG The Biomarkers European Special Interest Group: European Special Interest Group: Where are we now?Where are we now? x
5 EFSPI / PSI historical data SIG Beyond the classical type I error: Bayesian metrics for Bayesian designs using informative priors x
6 EFSPI / PSI Launch & Lifecycle Special Interest Group EFSPI / PSI Launch & Lifecycle Special Interest Group x
7 EFSPI / PSI HTA SIG EU HTA – How can statisticians help navigate the problem of multiplicity? x
8 EFSPI / PSI HTA SIG What’s the HTA ESIG doing to prepare for EU HTA? x
9 BBS Next Generation Summary of BBS Next Generation Seminar: “Future of the Next Generation Statisticians and Quantitative Scientists” x