Former Eli Lilly executive Michael J. Detke, MD, PhD, is frequent presenter on the causes of failed clinical studies for central nervous system (CNS) therapeutics and methods for improvement
HAMILTON, N.J., March 12 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAvante, Inc. the leader in centralized psychiatric patient evaluation, announced today that Michael Detke, MD, PhD, has joined the company as Chief Medical Officer and Director of the MedAvante Research Institute. Dr. Detke comes to MedAvante from Eli Lilly, Inc., in Indianapolis, Indiana, where he was Executive Director and head of early phase development of CNS therapeutics.
"We are honored to have Michael join our team," says Paul Gilbert, Chief Executive Officer of MedAvante. "At Lilly, Mike led early phase development of one of the industry's deepest and strongest pipelines of CNS products. His earlier work on Cymbalta(R) and Prozac(R) proves that he is a top-caliber scientist dedicated to developing CNS therapeutics. At MedAvante, Mike will apply his leadership abilities, scientific expertise, and commitment to quality assurance to help us deliver our leading-edge methodology for removing sources of bias and variability, increasing signal detection, and reducing the high rate of failed CNS trials."
Dr. Detke says, "MedAvante holds great promise for ensuring the future success of CNS therapeutics. For decades and now acutely, our industry has struggled with the problems of rater bias and an inability to separate placebo response from active-drug response. MedAvante offers a potential powerful solution for these problems. Our methodology to substantially increase the efficiency of clinical studies can help bring new treatments to market for patients suffering from debilitating CNS diseases. Furthermore, it can help to elucidate efficacy further, to help patients and doctors understand, for example, the relative efficacy of different drugs for a disorder, or different doses
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