Pharsight launches Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge

Pharsight, a market-leading provider of software and scientific consulting services to improve productivity and decision-making in clinical drug development, announced today that it has launched the Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge, a competition to recognize excellence in the application of pharmacometric software to critical problems in drug development.

“The interdisciplinary field of pharmacometrics continues to mature and demonstrate tangible impact on drug development and regulatory decisions”

The Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge seeks to promote the value of population-based pharmacometric software in industry, to encourage pharmacometric software productivity, and to enhance awareness of, and interest in, the role of pharmacometrics in commercial drug development.

Challenge entries will be evaluated based on innovative, leading-edge uses of pharmacometric toolkits on Phoenix^®, Pharsight's desktop software platform for pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) data analysis and modeling. Entries may include a pharmacometric workflow, a model development or fitting technique, a model validation method implemented using Phoenix, or novel use of other Phoenix-based software applications.

Pharsight is now accepting submissions from industry and academia for the inaugural 2011 Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge. The winning submission will be announced at the American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP) to be held April 4-7, 2011 in San Diego, California. More information about the 2011 Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge is available at www.pharsight.com/phoenix_challenge.php.

"The interdisciplinary field of pharmacometrics continues to mature and demonstrate tangible impact on drug development and regulatory decisions," said Daniel Weiner, Ph.D., Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Pharsight. "As part of its ongoing mission to provide leading modeling and simulation tools to tomorrow's pharmacometrics practitioners, Pharsight is pleased to commence the Phoenix Pharmacometric Productivity Challenge. We are also pleased to include distinguished academic leaders from Pharsight's Phoenix Centers of Excellence Program in our panel of judges for the Phoenix Challenge, and look forward to receiving submissions from academic and industry colleagues."