PHASTAR is delighted to be exhibiting at DIA Europe 2019, which runs from 5-7th February in Vienna, Austria.
Kicking off our first conference of 2019, PHASTAR’s CEO, Managing Director and Business Development team are looking forward to meeting with current and potential customers at booth B84D. Whether you have projects you need help with, require additional statistics, programming or data management support, or simply want to learn more about PHASTAR’s award winning service offering, PHASTAR’s 220 experienced global staff are here to help.
Schedule a meetingwith PHASTAR! Simply contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or reach out to Cheraya Alamusing the DIA Global App.
PHASTAR is happy to announce that we are co-sponsoring the UK Life Science Reception at BioJapan with Colliers. The event is being hosted by MedCity and the Northern Health Science Alliance.
The reception will take place following the opening day of BioJapan, starting from 8pm at the InterContinental Yokohama Grand!
We are excited to be accompanying MedCity and the NHSA's UK life sciences delegation to Japan. Alongside Academics from the UK's leading universities, PHASTAR hopes to showcase the UK and Japan's huge potential for collaboration in the pharmaceutical and biotechnological sectors.
A rare disease is defined by the European Union as one that affects less than 5 in 10,000 of the general population and in the US, the definition is one that affects less than 200,000 persons1. There are between 6,000 and 8,000 known rare diseases and around five new rare diseases are described in medical literature each week. Approximately 80% of rare disease have a genetic component, 75% of rare diseases affect children and 30% of rare disease patients die before the age of five2.
A single rare disease may affect up to 30,000 people in the UK alone1, meaning research into these diseases is urgently needed. However, research is often hindered by several factors3: diagnosis is often difficult, resulting in lack of proper diagnosis or a delay in diagnosis; the population affected is sparse and spread over a wide geographical area; clinical research centres specialising in the rare disease are often limited in number and in almost all cases most of the patient care is provided locally.
The public consultation period for the ICH E9 (R1) addendum on estimands and sensitivity analyses to the guideline on statistical principles for confirmatory clinical trials closed at the end of February 2018, and the addendum is planned to be issued in mid-2019.
At first glance the draft addendum can appear quite confusing – with a liberal sprinkling of statistical terminology such as ‘Estimand’, ‘Estimate’ and ‘Estimator’ it can be quite a dry document to digest (even for us statisticians). Moreover, there is a real risk that it is perceived as a ‘statisticians only’ document. This couldn’t be further from the truth and statisticians and clinicians cannot design or analyse trials in blissful isolation.
