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Sandeep M. Menon, PhD

Adjunct Professor, Biostatistics - Boston University School of Public Health

smenon@bu.edu
Crosstown Center
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Biography

Sandeep Menon is Senior Vice President and the Head of Early Clinical Development at Pfizer Inc., and also holds Adjunct faculty positions at Boston University School of Public Health, Tufts University School of Medicine and the Indian Institute of Management. At Pfizer, he is in the Worldwide Research, Development and Medical Leadership Team and leads a multi-functional global team which includes experts in Clinical Sciences, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Clinical Pharmacology, Quantitative Systems Pharmacology, Precision Medicine including labs, Digital Medicine which includes Pfizer Research and Innovation (PfIRE) lab, Translational Imaging and Early Scientific Planning and Operations. His responsibilities span into multiple therapeutic areas including Inflammation and Immunology, Oncology, Rare Disease, Anti-Infectives and Cardiovascular and Metabolism. He also leads Digital Medicine PfIRe (Pfizer Innovation and Research) lab with a remit to leverage state of the art technology to enable dynamic and remote monitoring of human behaviors to develop meaningful novel quantitative digital endpoints. During his years at Pfizer Sandeep has held leadership positions of increasing responsibility, from Discovery through Pivotal Studies. Prior to joining Pfizer he held late-phase leadership roles at Biogen Idec and Aptiv Solutions (now ICON). Before joining the industry, he practiced family medicine in Mumbai and was Resident Medical Officer.

Sandeep is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and was recently awarded the Young Scientist Award by the International Indian Statistical Association. He completed his Medical Degree from Bangalore (Karnataka) University, India, and later completed his Masters in Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Ph.D. in Biostatistics at Boston University and research Assistantship at Harvard Clinical Research Institute. He is on the advisory board for the M.S. in Biostatistics program at Boston University. Sandeep serves as an associate editor of the ASA journal Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research and served as an invited committee member of the prestigious Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award offered by ASA. He has published more than 50 scientific original publications and book chapters and co-authored /co-edited six books. He has received several awards for academic, teaching and research excellence.

Education

  • Boston University School of Public Health, PhD Field of Study: Biostatistics
  • Boston University School of Public Health, MPH Field of Study: Epidemiology

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Publications

  • Published on 1/8/2017

    Wu J, Banerjee A, Jin B, Menon SM, Martin SW, Heatherington AC. Clinical dose-response for a broad set of biological products: A model-based meta-analysis. Stat Methods Med Res. 2018 09; 27(9):2694-2721. PMID: 28067121.

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  • Published on 10/1/2016

    Damjanov N, Tlustochowicz M, Aelion J, Greenwald M, Diehl A, Bhattacharya I, Peeva E, Menon S, Gourley I. Safety and Efficacy of SBI-087, a Subcutaneous Agent for B Cell Depletion, in Patients with Active Rheumatoid Arthritis: Results from a Phase II Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled Study. J Rheumatol. 2016 Dec; 43(12):2094-2100. PMID: 27909139.

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  • Published on 1/1/2016

    Laage T, Loewy J, Menon S, Miller E, Pulkstenis E, Kan-Dobrosky N, Coffey C. Ethical Considerations in Adaptive Design Clinical Trials. Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory Science. 2016; 51(2).

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  • Published on 5/26/2015

    Wang J, Chang M, Menon S. Biomarker informed add-arm design for unimodal response. J Biopharm Stat. 2016; 26(4):694-711. PMID: 26010506.

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  • Published on 1/23/2015

    Zou B, Jin B, Koch GG, Zhou H, Borst SE, Menon S, Shuster JJ. On model selections for repeated measurement data in clinical studies. Stat Med. 2015 May 10; 34(10):1621-33. PMID: 25645442.

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  • Published on 1/1/2015

    Wu J, Menon S, Chang M. An Adaptive Staggered Dose Design for a Normal Endpoint. J Biopharm Stat. 2015; 25(4):731-56. PMID: 24904986.

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  • Published on 8/1/2014

    Yansong Cheng, Surajit Ray, Mark Chang & Sandeep Menon. Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials With Multiple Co- Primary Endpoints Using Multivariate B-value. Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research. 2014; 6(3):241-250.
  • Published on 7/2/2014

    Mitchell B, Leone D, Feller K, Menon S, Bondzie P, Yang S, Park HY, Mahalingam M. Protein expression of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and its ligand CXCL12 in primary cutaneous melanoma--biomarkers of potential utility? Hum Pathol. 2014 Oct; 45(10):2094-100. PMID: 25130395.

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  • Published on 5/1/2014

    Matilde Sanchez-Kam, Paul Gallo, John Loewy, Sandeep Menon, Zoran Antonijevic, Jared Christensen, Christy Chuang-Stein and Thomas Laage. A Practical Guide to Data Monitoring Committees in Adaptive Trials. A Practical Guide to Data Monitoring Committees in Adaptive Trials. 2014; (48):316-326.
  • Published on 4/14/2014

    Claudio Carini, Sandeep Menon and Mark Chang. Clinical and Statistical Considerations in Personalized Medicine. Taylor and Francis, CRC, Chapman & Hall. 2014.

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