Pharma Blog Watch

Adaptive Trials Conference Update (Eye on FDA)
In his blog, Mark Senak continues his coverage of the mysterious workshop on adaptive trials, which is supposedly scheduled for Nov. 13-14 and being put on by PhRMA. He has now discovered that the conference may not be open to the public. "One might ask oneself why, if an important conference in which there is a high level of interest is just a few weeks away, have details not been announced," he writes. "The answer may be that most of us assumed that the conference was open. It may be private."

"If this is so, the FDA and PhRMA have done a poor job communicating about the conference and about adaptive clinical trial design. In his speech in July, Dr. Scott Gottlieb stated that the FDA would be participating in the conference, but said nothing about it being a private workshop."