Artificial Intelligence in Drug & Biological Product Development Hybrid Public Workshop 2025

Webinars | November 4, 2025

Topics Included: Artificial Intelligence

Meeting Recordings:

Welcome & Session 1: Where Are We Now?

Session 2: Data Quality, Reliability, Representativeness, and Access in AI-Driven Drug Development

Session 3: Model Performance, Explainability, Transparency, and Interpretability in AI-Driven Drug Development

Session 4: Navigating the Future of AI in Drug Development

Discussion & Concluding Remarks

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CTTI’s Disease Progression Modeling Recommendations & Tool Launch

Webinars | July 8, 2025

Topics Included: Innovative Trials, Regulatory Submissions + Approvals

CTTI Project: Using Disease Progression Modeling to Advance Trial Design and Decision Making

Webinar Presenters

  • Sara Calvert, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)
  • Lindsay Kehoe, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)
  • Efthymios Manolis, European Medicines Agency (EMA)
  • CJ Musante, Pfizer
  • Karthik Venkatakrishnan, EMD Serono
  • Tiffany Westrich-Robertson, AiArthritis
  • Theo Zanos, Northwell Health

Webinar Resources

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Translating Quality by Design Principles into Practice, Part 1

Webinars | October 10, 2024

Topics Included: Ensuring Quality

CTTI Project: Quality by Design

Webinar Objective

This webinar is the first in a CTTI-hosted series designed to provide real-world examples of applying QbD to clinical trials. Click here for more information about CTTI's QbD Project.

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Agenda

  • CTTI Quality by Design Project Overview by Ann Meeker-O’Connell, Senior Director, Clinical Quality Strategy Team Lead, Janssen
  • Pfizer Experience by Coleen Glessner, Vice President, Clinical Trial Process and Quality, Pfizer
  • Seattle Genetics Experience by Marta Fields, Senior Director, Compliance and Quality Systems, Seattle Genetics
  • Q&A

Watch Translating Quality by Design Principles into Practice, Part 2

TransCelerate BioPharma Presents Risk Based Monitoring Initiative to CTTI Members


Webinar Presenters:

  • Craig Wozniak

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Agenda

CTTI and TransCelerate have been in an ongoing dialogue about their respective efforts, including, for example, how work related to risk based monitoring (RBM) may be integrated. This webinar features a presentation by TransCelerate highlighting their RBM initiative.

Preliminary Evidence from Sponsors & Investigators Using Mobile Devices

CTTI Project: Digital Health Trials

Webinar Presenters:

Project leaders Cheryl Grandinetti (FDA), Chris Miller (AstraZeneca), and Barry Peterson (Philips)

Webinar Objective:

In this webinar, project leaders Cheryl Grandinetti (FDA), Chris Miller (AstraZeneca), and Barry Peterson (Philips) provide an update on CTTI’s Mobile Devices Project, which focuses on scientific and technological challenges affecting the selection and use of mobile technologies in clinical research. The presenters share preliminary evidence gathered from research sponsors and clinical investigators experienced in using mobile devices in clinical trials. Issues addressed in the webinar include:

  • Challenges affecting data management, validation, analysis, and security in mobile technologies;
  • Scientific and technical considerations in mobile device selection; and
  • Approaches to managing and reporting safety signals and adverse events.

Mitigating Clinical Study Disruptions During Disasters and Public Health Emergencies (FDORA)

OCTOBER 18 & 19, 2023

Virtual Public Meeting Resources:

Final Meeting Report and Summary

Full two-day agenda

Download full two-day PowerPoint slide set

Speaker and Panelist Biographies

Guidances and Additional Resources

Virtual Public Meeting Recordings:

Watch Day 1:

 

Watch Day 2:

*ASL interpretation and Closed Captioning (CC) is available on both videos.

Virtual Public Meeting Speakers, Moderators & Panelists:

Day 1 (in order of appearance):

  • Jacqueline Corrigan-Curay, Principal Deputy Center Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Janet Woodcock, Principal Deputy Commissioner, FDA
  • John Farley , CDER, FDA
  • Anina Adelfio, Chief Operating Officer, Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO)
  • David Borasky, Vice President, Compliance Review Solutions, WCG
  • Janice Chang, Chief Executive Officer, TransCelerate
  • Karla Childers, Head, Bioethics-based Science & Technology Policy, Office of the Chief Medical Officer, Johnson & Johnson
  • Janet Vessotskie, Deputy Vice President of Science and Regulatory Advocacy, Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
  • Captain Julienne Vaillancourt, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), FDA
  • Karin Hoelzer, Director of Policy and Regulatory Affairs, National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD)
  • Valen Keefer, Patient Advocate, Educator, Consultant, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Otsuka America Pharmaceutical
  • Neena Nizar, Executive Director, Founder, Jansen's Foundation
  • Harpreet Singh , CDER, FDA
  • Lisa Bennett, Principal Quality Lead, Roche
  • Kenneth Getz, Executive Director, Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine
  • Chris Labaki, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard
  • Vinod (Vinny) Parthasarathy, Senior Clinical Monitoring Director, Medtronic
  • Joanne (Jo) Spallone, Clinical Quality Consultant (JS GCP Clinical Consulting Services, LLC); Retired from Novartis Pharmaceuticals
  • Sally Okun, Executive Director, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI)

Day 2 (in order of appearance):

  • Celia Witten, Deputy Center Director, CBER, FDA
  • Bray Patrick-Lake, Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), FDA
  • John Beigel, Associate Director for Clinical Research, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Margaret Mooney, Associate Director, Chief, Clinical Investigations Branch (CIB), Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program (CTEP), Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis (DCTD), National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  • Salina Waddy, Associate Director, CTSA Program Clinical Affairs, Chief, CTSA Program Clinical Affairs Branch, Division of Clinical Innovation, Clinical Affairs Branch, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Paul Kluetz, Deputy Director, Oncology Center for Excellence (OCE), FDA
  • John H. Alexander, Professor of Medicine/Cardiology, Duke Clinical Research Institute, Duke University; Co-Chair, CTTI
  • Jeffrey Blank, Adult Patient with Cystic Fibrosis
  • Marianne Chase, Senior Director of Clinical Trial Operations, Neurological Clinical Research Institute/ Healey & AMG Center for ALS at Mass General Hospital
  • Hassan Kadhim, Director, Head of Clinical Trial Business Capabilities, Global Development Operations, Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Nina Movsesyan, Manager, Clinical Research Programs, Metabolic Disorders Division, CHOC Children’s Hospital Orange County
  • Veronica Suarez, Global Product Leader, Vaccines Innovation Unit, CSL
  • Kassa Ayalew , CDER, FDA
  • Cindy Geoghegan, Patient Advocate, Advisor, and Activist
  • Catherine Gregor, Chief Clinical Trial Officer, Florence Healthcare
  • Patrick Naldony, Global Head, Clinical Data Management, Clinical Sciences & Operations, Sanofi
  • Pamela Tenaerts, Chief Scientific Officer, Medable
  • Ramya Thota, Investigator, Intermountain Health
  • Marion Wolfs, Head, Risk Management and Central Monitoring Oncology, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine
  • M. Khair ElZarrad, Director, Office of Medical Policy, CDER, FDA

Additional Resources:

Virtual Public Workshop to Enhance Clinical Study Diversity

Quality by Design Project: Recommendations and Toolkit

CTTI Project: Quality by Design

Webinar Presenters:

  • Ann Meeker-O'Connell, Head, Risk Management and External Engagement, Johnson & Johnson BioResearch Quality & Compliance
  • Coleen Glessner, MBA, Quality Expert
  • Martin Landray, Clinical Trials Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit, University of Oxford

*The views and opinions expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of CTTI.

Webinar Objective:

The Quality by Design (QbD) project team presented the QbD recommendations and an introduction to the QbD Toolkit, released June 15, 2015. This web-based Toolkit provides resources for facilitating adoption and real world application of QbD concepts.