Funded Research Projects
IDDI has been awarded public funding to work on 2 major research projects:
- SMART (Statistical Monitoring Applied to Research Trials) project, developed with the financial support of the Walloon Region, aims to design statistical monitoring with a view to detecting heterogeneity of data across investigational centres and to create a quality label for clinical trial data. This project is conducted in collaboration with IRIDIA, GSK Biologicals and UCL, Institut de Statistique.
SMART Advisory Board:
- Dr. Eleanor McFadden MA AMBCS, Managing Director Frontier Science (Scotland) Ltd
Board Member, Society for Clinical Trials, Perth, UK - Prof. Stephen Evans BA MSc C Stat FRCP, Professor of Pharmacoepidemiology
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Medical Statistics Unit, London, UK - Prof. Stephen L. George PhD, Professor of Biostatistics
Duke University School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Durham, NC - BRAVO (Biomarker Retrospective Analysis for Validation Optimization), under the EurotransBio initiative, targets a methodology for the validation of biomarkers that could predict the efficacy of medicines assessed for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease. This project is conducted in collaboration with Pamgene, VUMC and I-Biostat.