
Conference Sessions
- Year 2025
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2025
- Overcoming Obstacles in Using Hybrid Controls used as a Basis for Clinical Trials
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2025
- Year 2024
- JSM 2024
- Examples and perspectives using ML and AI in drug development
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2024
- Case Examples of Oncology Dose Optimization in Response to Project Optimus
- JSM 2024
- Year 2023
- Duke Industry Statistics Symposium (DISS) 2023
- Data Integration in Multi-Stage Adaptive Design
- Information Borrowing in Oncology Trials
- JSM 2023
- Statistical Consideration in Basket Trial Design
- Seamless late-stage development in oncology – the past decade in practice. Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto.
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2023
- Gu et al. Getting the Dose Right: FDA’s Project Optimus in Practice
- He P et al. Advancement of Study Designs, Endpoints, and Statistical Analyses in Clinical Trials for Rare Hematology/Oncology Disorders.
- Duke Industry Statistics Symposium (DISS) 2023
- Year 2022
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2022
- He P, Dong Y, Cindy L, and Cooner F. Getting “Real” with Master Protocol
- ASA BIOP Regulatory-Industry Statistics Workshop 2022
WG Publications
- Year 2025
- Broglio L, Chen C, He P, Li X, Zhou H (2025). Book Chapter: Exploratory Basket Trials. Springer.
- He P, Ma H, Lu C, Ananthakrishnan R, Mi G, Gwise T, Fernandes L, Yang H, Leung D, Ren N, Chaudhry S (2025). Ensuring Quality and Interpretability of Progression Free Survival and Overall Survival in Oncology Clinical Trials. Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science. doi:10.1007/s43441-025-00848-1.
- He P, Mi G, Zhang Z, Chakravartty A, Mitchell P, D’Angelo G, Ma H, Mishra K, Colin P. (2025). Book chapter: Oncology Dose Optimization Trials. Statistics in Clinical Development of Cancer Drugs: Recent Trends & Advances. Publisher: Springer Nature.
- Cindy Lu, et al. (2025) Roadmap of master protocol implementation. Ther Innov Regul Sci.
- Year 2024
- A Systematic Review of Adaptive SeamlessClinical Trials for Late-Phase Oncology Development”, Ther Innov Regul Sci 58, 917–929 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43441-024-00670-1
- Use of seamless study designs in Oncology Clinical Development – A survey conducted by IDSWG oncology sub-team. Ther Innov Regul Sci. 2024 Sep;58(5):978-986. doi:10.1007/s43441-024-00676-9. Epub 2024 Jun22.
Community Events
- Year 2025
- KOL Roundtable and Panel Discussion: Oncology Dose Optimization. Friday, May 2, 2025
- IDSWG-Rutgers mini-symposium for summer volunteer projects, August 22, 2025. Rutgers
Presentations
- Year 2025
- He P, Fernandes L, Yu B (2025). Real-World Data and External Data to Accelerate Clinical Development. 5th ACE Clinical Trials Summit. Boston, MA. June, 2025.
- Binbing Yu, Dai Feng, Laura Fernandes, Haijun Ma, Philip He, Arunava Chakravartty (2025). Choice of index date for an externally controlled arm in oncology trials for late line therapies. JSM. Nashville. August 2025.
- He P, Dong C, Ma H, Lu C, Ananthakrishnan R, Mi G, Gwise T, Fernandes L, Zhou H, Yang H, Leung D, Lee C, Ren N, Chaudhry S (2025). Ensuring quality and interpretability of progression free survival and overall survival – E9(R1) estimand perspective. JSM. Nashville. August 2025.
- Cindy Lu. Master protocol, ISBS, 2025
- Year 2024
- He P, Dong C*, Zhou H, Ayyala D, and Zhang Z (2024). A review and roadmap of statistical methodology for seamless phase 2/3 designs in oncology trials. Joint Statistical Meeting, 2024. Portland OR.
- Year 2023
- Dong Y., He, P. and et al (2023) Use of seamless study design for registration in oncology clinical development – An industry survey. Invited talk. Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto.
- Broglio K., Cooner F., He, P. and et al (2023) Adaptive seamless design in late-stage oncology development – A systemic meta-analysis of real clinical cases. Invited talk. Joint Statistical Meeting, Toronto.
Public Comments
- Year 2023
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Considerations for the Design and Conduct of Externally Controlled Trials for Drug and Biological Products. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2022-D-2983-0130
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Decentralized Clinical Trials for Drugs, Biological Products, and Devices. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2022-D-2870-0052
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Optimizing the Dosage of Human Prescription Drugs and Biological Products for the Treatment of Oncologic Diseases. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2022-D-2870-0052
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Use of Data Monitoring Committees in Clinical Trials. https://downloads.regulations.gov/FDA-2001-D-0219-0037/attachment_1.pdf
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Expedited Program for Serious Conditions—Accelerated Approval of Drugs and Biologics. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2024-D-2033-0021
- Year 2024
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Master Protocols for Drug and Biological Product Development. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2023-D-5259-0020
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Master Protocols for Drug and Biological Product Development. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2023-D-5259-0020
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Clinical Trial Considerations to Support Accelerated Approval of Oncology Therapeutics. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2023-D-0110-0023
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Considerations for the Design and Conduct of Externally Controlled Trials for Drug and Biological Products. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2022-D-2983-0130
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Master Protocols for Drug and Biological Product Development. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2023-D-5259-0020
- Comments to FDA draft guidance: Clinical Trial Considerations to Support Accelerated Approval of Oncology Therapeutics. https://www.regulations.gov/comment/FDA-2023-D-0110-0023
Journal Special Issue
- Recent Advances in Oncology Clinical Trials
IDSWG Oncology Newsletter
- January 1, 2024. AI and Machine Learningfor Drug Discovery and Development. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10457254
- April 8, 2024. RWD and RWE – the Promise and Problems. https://oncotrialdesign.github.io https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10909835.
- September 23, 2024. Intermediate/Surrogate Endpoints Balancing Speed and Scientific Rigor. https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13770527.
- December 31, 2024. Path to dose optimization – where are we now? https://www.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14549660.
- April 28, 2025. Overall Survival – Navigating the Gold Standard. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15307049.

