6–9 Jul 2026
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Rxsim: Reducing friction in simulating clinical trials (RCT) using R6 programming.

7 Jul 2026, 16:15
5m
Lightning Talk (5 minutes) Lightning Talks

Speakers

Dr Matthew Valko (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG)Dr Saumil Shah (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG)

Description

Simulations are a great tool to support decisions on optimal trial designs. Trial designs have evolved from simple 2-arm treatment comparison to multi-arm dose-finding, adaptive designs, and platform trials. R is a popular and important tool for those in the pharmaceutical industry. R6 programming and supporting R functions have allowed us to design a package rxsim that is flexible enough to handle different designs with minimal change of program. Specifically, we broke apart the design of a trial into different classes with their own methods for customization on trial designs and analyses with minimal coding. The package is workflow and pipeline friendly and natively works with {targets}, tidyverse, thus can be incorporated into a rapid iterative prototyping process for trial designs. This will make trial simulations a commodity and the code more reusable, standard, and reliable. From here we can hope to standardize programming of R-based trial simulations across industry and regulatory.

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Author

Dr Matthew Valko (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG)

Co-author

Dr Saumil Shah (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma GmbH & Co. KG)

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