Workshop: Ethics and Innovative Clinical Trial Design: Adaptive and Fixed Designs in Confirmatory Clinical Trials

Monday, 6 July 2026, 1pm to 4.30pm

The workshop will consist of three interactive parts:

1. A brief introduction presenting the core, classical ethical concepts relevant for clinical trials and establishing some baseline terminology of modern trial elements;
2. An in-depth presentation of the recent milestone paper: “Adaptive versus Fixed Designs in Confirmatory Clinical Trials: Centering the Choice on Ethics.”;
3. A forward-looking roundtable focused on operationalizing these concepts and consider particular case studies. We will consider immediate translational next steps, including integrating ethical-justification frameworks into standard protocol templates, the consequences for institutional review board (IRB/REC) workflows, and regulatory submission dossiers and begin to outline a collaborative interdisciplinary research agenda.

Venue: Big Data Institute - Seminar room 1 - Seminar room 1 Big Data Institute Old Road Campus Oxford Oxfordshire OX3 7LF United Kingdom

Department: Oxford Population Health (OxPop) (Unit)

Host: Ethox Centre

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