6th Early Phase Adaptive Trials Workshop
 
Program
Day 1: Thursday, November 1

8:00 – 8:30 Breakfast and Registration 
8:30 – 8:50  Welcome and Introductions
8:50 – 9:20  Cody Chiuzan
Sample Size Formulae and Application for the Two-Stage Continual Reassessment Method (CRM)
Columbia University 
9:20 – 9:50  Kristian Brock
A Meta-Analysis of Efficacy and Safety Outcomes in Cancer Dose-Finding Trials
University of Birmingham 
9:50 – 10:20  Mark Conaway
The Role of Early Stage Trial Design in the Drug Development Process
University of Virginia Health System 
10:20 – 10:50  Coffee Break 
10:50 – 11:20  Monia Ezzalfani
Novel Dose-Finding Design to Jointly Modeling Repeated Continuous Toxicity Score and Efficacy Data
Curie Institute  
11:20 – 11:50   Cynthia Basu
Bayesian Approach for Single-Arm Trials Incorporating Historical Information
Pfizer Inc. 
11:50 – 12:20  Haiyan Zheng
A Robust Bayesian Hierarchical Model to Incorporate Preclinical Animal Data into a Phase I Dose Escalation Trial
Lancaster University 
12:30 – 14:00  Lunch @ Granville, 8701 Beverly Blvd. 
14:10 – 14:40  Nolan Wages
Shift Models for Dose Finding in Partially Ordered Groups
University of Virginia 
14:40 – 15:10  Nate O’Connell
The Quasi-Partial Order Continual Reassessment Method: Applying Toxicity Scores to Cancer Phase I Drug Combination Trials
Wake Forest School of Medicine  
15:10 – 15:40  Maxine Bennett
A Dose-Finding Design for Drug Combinations using a Bayesian 4 Parameter Logistic Model with Penalized D-Optimality
Cambridge Institute of Public Health
 
15:40 – 16:10  Lucie Biard
A Simulation Study of Methods for Handling Disease Progression in Dose-Finding Clinical Trials
Columbia University 
16:15  Conclusion 
18:30  Social Dinner @ The Farmhouse, 8500 Beverly Blvd., #113 


Day 2: Friday, November 2
 

8:00 – 8:30  Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00  Pavel Mozgunov
A Benchmark for Dose Finding Studies with Continuous Outcomes
Lancaster University 
9:00 – 9:30  Thomas Jaki
Information Theory in Dose-Finding: Improving Safety of the CRM
Lancaster University 
9:30 – 10:00  Yimei Li
Continuous Reassessment Method for Pediatric Phase I Trials Incorporating Concurrent Adult Trials Information
University of Pennsylvania
10:00 – 10:20  Coffee Break
10:20 – 10:50 Christina Yap
Dose-Transition Pathways: Integrating Simple Decision-Making in the Design and Implementation of Model-Based Dose Finding Trials
University of Birmingham 
10:50 – 11:20  Mourad Tighiouart
A Bayesian Adaptive Phase 1/II Design of Cisplatin and Cabazitaxel in Prostate Cancer with Visceral Metastasis
Cedars-Sinai

11:20 – 11:50  Matthew Schipper
Individualized and Adaptive Dose Selection via Utilities
University of Michigan 
12:15 – 14:00  Lunch @ Locanda Veneta, 8638 W. 3rd Street 
14:00  Conclusion