Pharmacometrics: Focus on the Patient

Pharmacometrics, whether using simple or complex models, has contributed to rational and efficient drug development,1–3 with the main focus on early drug development.4 This article describes why opportunities more directly focused on the patient abound in late stage development, illustrating the concept with three innovative examples which focus on benefits to patients, enabling drugs that are truly efficacious to reach the market faster in diseases with high unmet medical needs, while maintaining adequate safety. CPT Pharmacometrics Syst. Pharmacol. (2015) 4, 51–54; doi:10.1002/psp4.5; published online on 30 December 2014.