Amitava Mukhopadhyay

Amitava is a Biostatistician at MorphoSys AG, Germany. He has worked for more than eighteen years in pharmaceutical industry across all phases of clinical trials in several therapeutic areas especially, in Oncology, Osteoporosis, Cardiovascular, Infectious diseases. Previously, he has also worked at Novartis, Cytel and IQVIA. Being passionate in science, Amitava has continued his research as a post-doctoral fellow after receiving his PhD degree in modelling. He has been engaged with PSI Scientific Committee since 2018.

Julia Niewczas

Julia is a Statistical Science Associate Director in Late Oncology Biometrics team at AstraZeneca. Previously she worked in statistical methodology teams at Janssen and AstraZeneca. Her areas of expertise include adaptive and group sequential designs, and multiplicity. She is interested in Bayesian topics of inclusion of external data. She received her BSc and MSc at Lancaster University in the UK and holds a PhD in Biostatistics from Medical University of Vienna. Julia joined the PSI Scientific Committee in 2020.

Julia joined the PSI Scientific Committee in 2020.

Julia Saperia

Julia is a statistical assessor at the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, where she has been working since 2012. She works across therapeutic areas and enjoys the variety and challenges. She completed her MSc in Statistics with Applications in Medicine from the University of Southampton in 2003 and between then and starting at the MHRA she has worked as a statistician and systematic reviewer in academia and in the public sector. She joined the PSI scientific committee in 2016. In her spare time -- oh, wait, what is that again? -- she sings (quite well) and plays the violin (very badly).

Maria Efstathiou

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Martin Jenkins

Martin Jenkins is a Biometrics Team Leader at AstraZeneca in Cambridge. He is the statistical lead for several late stage product teams in the respiratory therapy area, and also has experience in rheumatology, dermatology and inflammatory diseases. Martin initially joined AstraZeneca in 2006, providing statistical support to translational science before moving into later phase clinical trials. He has been a member of the PSI scientific committee since 2017 and prior to that chaired the PSI Biomarker Special Interest Group for 6 years. He has published or presented in the fields of adaptive phase II/III seamless designs, biomarkers and estimands. Martin holds a undergraduate degree and masters in Mathematics from Cambridge University.

Sarah Williams

Sarah is a Senior Statistical Scientist at Roche, where she has worked for the past 17 years. She has previously worked in the following therapeutic areas: inflammation, oncology and currently works in infectious diseases.

Sarah joined the Scientific Committee in October 2017 and is enjoying getting to know the committee members and helping to organise events.

Outside of work Sarah enjoys running, yoga and days out with her family.

Sue Todd

Sue is Professor of Medical Statistics within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Reading and has over 25 years’ experience as an applied academic statistician working in the fields of clinical trials and epidemiology. Her particular research areas of interest are adaptive designs and sequential clinical trials. Recent research has considered methodology for novel study design and analysis in these areas, in particular multi-arm multi-stage clinical trials involving treatment selection and multiple endpoints of interest.

Tobias Mütze

Tobias is a statistical methodologist at Novartis in Basel, Switzerland, and works primarily on late phase studies. Previously, Tobias worked as a CMC statistician in the development of vaccines and biologicals. His current research interests are adaptive clinical trial designs, recurrent event modelling, estimands, and more recently missing data methodology. He received his PhD in the area of biostatistics from the University of Göttingen, Germany, and holds a BSc and a MSc in mathematics. Tobias joined the PSI Scientific Committee in January 2019.

Tom Burnett

Tom is a Lecturer in Statistics at the University of Bath. Prior to this he spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC Biostatistics Unit at the University of Cambridge and the Medical and Pharmaceutical Statistics unit at Lancaster University. His research focus is adaptive designs for clinical trials, with a primary interest in optimal decision making methods suitable for late phase trials

Kate Taylor

Kate is a Biostatistics Senior Manager working for Amgen in their Uxbridge office, where she has been for the last 8 years. During that time, she has worked across a number of disease areas and phases in their oncology pipeline. She has also worked in a CRO and completed a placement year at GSK as well as working in market research for a number of years. Kate has been a member of the PSI Scientific Committee since 2016 and was the Conference Chair and a board member for 2019 and 2020. She was also a part of the PSI CALC group for 2 years. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with family and friends and also loves baking and running.

Ian Wadsworth

Ian is a Principal Statistician at Phastar, where he has mainly worked on late phase oncology studies since 2018. Prior to this, Ian worked at Lancaster University as a Research Associate in medical statistics for six years. Whilst in this role, Ian studied part-time for a PhD in Statistics looking at extrapolation in paediatric medicine development. Before PhD, he studied for a BSc in Mathematics and MSc in Statistics, also at Lancaster University. Ian joined the PSI scientific committee mid-2022.

Vicky Marriott

Vicky is currently the Head of Statistics at PHASTAR. Prior to that, she has worked at a mix of small and large CROs, as well as at Boehringer Ingelheim. Starting as a graduate statistician, she has gradually moved from a project statistician role to a management role and is passionate about supporting training and career progression within the industry. She was on the PSI CALC committee for 10 years and was on the PSI board as the chair of the CALC group. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with friends and family, CrossFit and reading.

Clelia Cahuzac

Clelia is a Senior Statistical Scientist at Roche since 2023, based in Basel (Switzerland) and currently working on oncology clinical trials. She has previously worked in CRO, pharma and biotech companies across different development phases and indications, mainly: dermatology, oncology and autoimmune diseases. She holds a MSc in Statistics and Econometrics from the Toulouse School of Economics. Clelia joined the PSI Scientific Committee in 2024.

Jyoti Soni

Jyoti is a Statistical Leader at GSK Vaccine where she is working since past 14 years. She has worked across different indications and phases for Viral vaccine and is also working on Neuroscience study. Before joining GSK, she has worked as Consultant to Government of India, India on public policy planning and with ICMR, India for WHO funded project on HIV/AIDS in India. Her current research interest are adaptive clinical study design, correlate of protection and more recently neuroscience specific statistical methodology. Jyoti has joined PSI Scientific Committee in 2024.

Lara Wolfson

Lara Wolfson, PhD, currently serves as the Associate Vice President and Head of HTA Statistics at MSD (known as Merck & Co. in the US and Canada), based in Zurich, Switzerland. In this role, she oversees a dedicated team of over 75 statisticians, working collaboratively across the organization to develop innovative quantitative solutions for Health Technology Assessment (HTA) challenges. Lara has had a diverse career path, including roles as a value-evidence strategy leader in Vaccines at Merck's Center for Observational Research and Real-World Evidence, and in Global Public Health and Global Market Access at the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson. Earlier in her career, Lara held various roles at the World Health Organization, where she focused on epidemiology, health economics, and programme management for vaccines and infectious diseases. Additionally, she has held academic positions at Brigham Young University and the University of Waterloo. Dr Wolfson co-leads the HTA European Special Interest Group (ESIG) of EFSPI (European Federation of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry). She holds MS and PhD degrees in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and completed her undergraduate studies at Simon Fraser University (Canada).

Nicola Scott

Nicola is a Statistics Director at GSK in Stevenage, with over 25 years’ experience as a clinical statistician in the pharmaceutical industry, where she currently leads the HIV Early Development team at GSK. During her career, she has worked across all phases of clinical drug development, from first-time into human studies through to marketing approvals and post-marketing commitments, across indications in multiple therapeutic areas including Immuno-Inflammation, COVID-19, Respiratory and Neurosciences. Nicola holds an undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Its Applications from Cardiff University and Masters in Medical Statistics from Leicester University. Outside of work Nicola is a keen amateur photographer. Nicola has been a member of the PSI Scientific Committee since July 2024.

Ayon Mukherjee

Ayon is a Statistical Methodologist at Merck KGaA in Darmstadt Germany. He specializes in providing consultancy and methodological support in the area of Adaptive Trial designs, Estimands, Master Protocols and Bayesian inference. He has over 12 years of experience in the clinical trial domain as a statistician and holds a PhD degree in Statistics from University of London where his research focused on developing Covariate-Adjusted Response Adaptive (CARA) designs for survival trials. His present research involves Bayesian methods for dose optimization trials in oncology, adaptive randomization methods for MAMS trials, Group Sequential designs, Estimands in oncology, Survival Analysis, Stochastic process and methods of statistical inference. Within the Advanced Biostatistical Science team at Merck KGaA, Ayon is the subject matter expert on providing methodological consultancy on Response Adaptive Randomization methods, designing dose optimization trials for exploratory phases using Bayesian methods, and randomized withdrawal trial designs for late phase studies. He is also presently involved in collaborating with University of Cambridge in supervising PhD students in the field of Adaptive design methods. Ayon has a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics from Coventry University and MSc in Applied Statistics from University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Outside work, Ayon loves watching cricket matches and movies. Ayon joined the PSI scientific committee in April 2024.