Trends in Early Phase Clinical Research and how you can be ready for them, Dr Willem Jan Drijfhout
1. Trends in Early Phase Clinical Research
and how you can be ready for them
Willem Jan Drijfhout
wjdrijfhout@me.com
2. Content
• The Phase I challenge
• Away with transcription
• More sites is better
• Patients first
3. Content
• The Phase I challenge
• Away with transcription
• More sites is better
• Patients first
4. 1 2a 2b 3
Clinical
Development
Phase
‘Phase I’
Studies
First-in-man to
Proof of Concept
Clinical Pharmacology package
Generics
4
Right-time delivery of data to make decisions for drug development
5. First-in-man to
Proof of Concept
Clinical Pharmacology package
Generics
Size
Design complexity
# Data Sources
Changes
Planning variability
16. Content
• The Phase I challenge
• Away with transcription
• More sites is better
• Patients first
17. 1 2a 2b 3
Clinical
Development
Phase
‘Phase I’
Studies
First-in-man to
Proof of Concept
Clinical Pharmacology package
Generics
4
18. ‘Phase I’
Studies
First-in-man to
Proof of Concept
Increased inclusion of patients
• Early signs of efficacy - Proof of Concept
• Toxicity/tolerability unacceptable to healthy volunteers
• Monoclonal antibodies
• On-target safety cannot be studied in healthy volunteers
• Pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers not predictive for patients
• Perceived time-gain by starting patients early