Are You Innovating and Imaginating All By Yourself?

One of the many people I spoke with this past week at the AAPS show in Los Angeles was Ted Grasela, CEO of Cognigen Corp., which advises manufacturers on model-based drug development. Grasela delivered a presentation on the importance of modeling and simulation to development, and on strategies that pharmacometricians and statistical experts can use to influence drug development in a positive way. It's time for modeling and simulation to take its rightful and significant place in drug development decisionmaking, Grasela said.

Most importantly, statistical modeling can be a kind of glue that binds the entire drug development process and the people involved. “People are innovating and imaginating all over the place," Grasela says, "but often these islands of innovation that never get linked with one another.”

Here's my full writeup of Grasela's presentation. I stopped by the Cognigen booth afterwards for a chat with Grasela and Cognigen colleagues, and came to appreciate their ideas of bringing more science to the development process. Here's the Cognigen home page for those interested.