Marathon Pharmaceuticals and Italfarmaco Join cTAP

Learning from Patient Data to Enhance Clinical Trial Design for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Both companies have investigational treatments for Duchenne in late-stage clinical development CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Feb. 7, 2017 (Business Wire) – Marathon Pharmaceuticals LLC and Italfarmaco SpA have joined the Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project (cTAP), bringing their extensive knowledge and clinical expertise in Duchenne muscular dystrophy to the rapidly growing coalition. Reflecting increased excitement about and participation in cTAP’s unique collaborative structure, the new…

Eli Lilly and Company Joins cTAP

Helping accelerate enriched clinical trial design for the provision of new treatments for Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients Lilly to share data from Phase III trial of tadalafil in Duchenne, increasing knowledge of placebo-arm responses CAMBRIDGE, Mass., December 21 (Business Wire) – Eli Lilly and Company, one of the top 15 global pharmaceutical companies, has joined the Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project (cTAP), a unique partnership of many stakeholders all committed to accelerating scientific discovery and bringing…

Nontraditional Approaches to Big Data Analyses: A Case Study in Rare Disease

Random errors could have a disproportionate effect on smaller clinical trials. This is because as the sample size becomes larger in any trial, outliers and missed events will have less of an effect and the model will still be accurate, as illustrated by Landray. Susan Ward, founder and executive director, the Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Program (cTAP), pointed out that in smaller trials, however, small variations in data can have an enormous impact on the model….

cTAP Announces Two Research Publications

Two studies categorize and predict disease progression in Duchenne muscular dystrophy Cambridge, Mass (Business Wire) – October 31, 2016 – The Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project (cTAP), a public-private partnership to accelerate data science solutions to critical problems in drug development for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), today announced the publication of two research studies with important implications for the design of effective clinical trials. All patients with Duchenne eventually lose the ability to walk, but the…

Non-Profits, Pharmaceutical Companies and Noted Clinicians Collaborate to Launch cTAP

Advancing Clinical Trial Design for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Consortium Working Together to Bring Quality of Treatments to the Duchenne Community NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., October 25, 2016 – The next wave in tackling Duchenne muscular dystrophy is getting a boost from a collaboration of non-profits, biopharmaceutical companies and noted clinicians who have joined together to advance the progress of drug development and bring quality of life treatments to the Duchenne community sooner. Initially funded by CureDuchenne,…

Individualized Prediction of Changes in 6-Minute Walk Distance for Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Individualized Prediction of Changes in 6-Minute Walk Distance for Patients with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. Goemans N*, Vanden Hauwe M, Signorovitch J, Swallow E, Song J; Collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project (cTAP). PLoS One. 2016 Oct 13;11(10):e0164684. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0164684. eCollection 2016 1 University Hospitals Leuven, Child Neurology, Leuven, Belgium, 2 Analysis Group, Inc., 111 Huntington Ave, 14th floor, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 The Trajectory Analysis Project (TAP) Collaboration, One Broadway, 14th floor, Cambridge, Massachusetts,…

Categorizing natural history trajectories of ambulatory function

Categorizing natural history trajectories of ambulatory function measured by the 6-minute walk distance in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Mercuri E, Signorovitch JE, Swallow E, Song J, Ward SJ; DMD Italian Group; Trajectory Analysis Project (cTAP). Neuromuscul Disord. 2016 Sep;26(9):576-83. doi: 10.1016/j.nmd.2016.05.016. Epub 2016 May 27 Eugenio Mercuri a,*, James Edward Signorovitch b,c, Elyse Swallow b, Jinlin Song b, Susan J. Ward c for the DMD Italian Group # and the collaborative Trajectory Analysis Project…

cTAP at the World Congress Orphan Disease Conference 2015

November 2015 Susan J. Ward presented at the World Congress Orphan Disease Conference 2015. The presentation is entitled “Enabling the right trial design, the first time; Supporting new therapies to patients sooner.” View the Full PDF