Poster: Study Design

Optimal Design of Anticancer Regimens

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Anticancer regimens are often a delicate compromise between dose intensity and acceptable toxicity, for example neutropenia. The aim of…

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Trial Sample Size Estimation and Study Design Assessment using Monte Carlo Sampling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Construct a simulated clinical trial as close to clinical reality as possible benefitting from available clinical information. Methods: To…

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Multivariate patient simulation for clinical trial optimization in COPD

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Clinical Trial Simulation (CTS) can be a valuable tool to improve drug development [1]. However, in order to obtain…

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Development of Sparse Sampling Study of Oral Ciprofloxacin for Severely Malnourished Children

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: The population approach is a powerful tool to estimate pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters and to identify inter- and intra-individual variability…

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Optimisation of Screening Experiments for the Assessment of Analgesic Effects

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives:Experimental protocols in preclinical drug screening are often based on empirical criteria such as best guess approaches. Practical constraints prevent…

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Dose and dose schedule optimization of anticancer drugs

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Anticancer drug dose and dose schedule are known to affect the tumor response. Tumor growth inhibition (TGI) models establish…

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Designing a dose-response study analysed by nonlinear mixed effects models

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEM) can be used to analyse dose-response trials with several doses in each patient. The…

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Evaluation of Fisher information matrix using Gaussian quadrature in nonlinear mixed effects models: application to dose-response trials

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEM) can be used to analyse dose-response trials where each patient received several doses. Design…

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Optimal design for a population pharmacokinetic study of oxycodone in preterm neonates, neonates and infants

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: While the pharmacokinetics of oxycodone in children older than 6 months of age has been characterized, only one study…

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Optimal design of a dichotomous Markov-chain mixed-effect sleep model

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Optimal design (OD) for discrete-type responses have been derived using generalized linear mixed models [1] and simulation based methods…

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