Presented by visiting international guests Thomas Jaki and James Wason, the full day pre-conference workshop on adaptive trials is open to all.

Master protocols are a class of efficient clinical trial designs that seek to answer multiple research questions within a single trial protocol and include platform, basket and umbrella trials. The advantages of using such designs are many, ranging from use of a shared trial infrastructure to reusing information within the study (e.g. using a single control group or borrowing of information).

In this course we provide an overview of statistical approaches to the design and analysis of Master protocols in a mixture of lectures and practical sessions. The following topics will be discussed:

·         A framework for designing multi-arm multi-stage platform trials

·         Methods for information borrowing with application to Basket and Umbrella trials

·         Software for Master protocols

·         Practical considerations when implementing a Master protocol

Tutors

­   Professor Thomas Jaki - Professor of Statistics at University of Regensburg and Professor of Statistics at University of Cambridge

­   Professor James Wason – Professor of Biostatistics at Newcastle University