Abstracts

Application of Item Response Theory in Early Phase Clinical Trials: Utilization of a Reference Model to Analyse the Montgomery-Ã…sberg Depression Rating Scale.

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Item response theory (IRT) has shown to be a valuable asset for the analysis of (late phase) clinical trials…

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Evaluation of Darigabat QTc Prolongation in Healthy Volunteers: a Concentration-QTcF Analysis

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Darigabat (CVL-865; PF-06372865) is a novel, brain-penetrable positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of α2/3/5 subunit-containing gamma-amino-butyric-acid type A (GABAA) receptors,…

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Characterization of absorption kinetics of oral esketamine in healthy volunteers

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: The interest in esketamine as antidepressant drug remains high ever since it first got registered as an option for…

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New features in PFIM for optimal design in nonlinear mixed effects models using the S4 object system in R

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEM) are widely used in model-based drug development to analyse longitudinal data. The use of…

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Design evaluation and optimisation in nonlinear mixed effects models with the R package PFIM 6.0

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEMs) are widely used in model-based drug development to analyse longitudinal data. For optimising the…

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Design evaluation and optimisation in nonlinear mixed effects models with the R package PFIM

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Objectives: Nonlinear mixed effects models (NLMEMs) are widely used in model-based drug development to analyse longitudinal data. For optimising the…

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Optimizing the value of preclinical data for the design of first-in-human clinical studies with oral cabazitaxel through population pharmacokinetic modelling

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction Cabazitaxel is currently approved as an intravenous (IV) formulation for the second line treatment of hormone refractory prostate cancer…

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Generalized FOCE with Pumas

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction: Traditionally, the first-order estimation method (FOCE) [1] has been associated with the Gaussian error models. However, when FOCE is…

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On the error of the Laplace approximation when lags and duration parameters have between-subject variation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

It is well known that estimation based on the Laplace approximation, such as the First Order Conditional Estimation (FOCE), of…

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pedPower – An R package to aid pediatric clinical trial design and exposure evaluation

Thursday 16 October, 2025

Introduction As one step in the pediatric development of drugs that have been evaluated in adults, pediatric trials are conducted…

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