Brian Davis

Senior Business Analyst / Project Manager

Brian joined MetrumRG in March 2022 as a Business Analyst / Project Manager. He brings over 20 years of product and project management experience leading large scale projects within the media/advertising, pharmaceutical, education and energy sectors. Brian has managed a broad range of projects, including major software and IT implementations, new software product development and several studies that assess and plan for the future impacts of climate change on the electrical grid.

Recent publications by this scientist

A MODEL INFORMED DRUG DEVELOPMENT (MIDD)-BASED QUANTITATIVE DECISION FRAMEWORK (QDF) FOR IMPROVING R&D PRODUCTIVITY: PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR ATOPIC DERMATITIS (AD)

March 18, 2026

A MODEL INFORMED DRUG DEVELOPMENT (MIDD)-BASED QUANTITATIVE DECISION FRAMEWORK (QDF) FOR IMPROVING R&D PRODUCTIVITY: PROOF OF CONCEPT FOR ATOPIC DERMATITIS (AD)

E. Anderson¹, BW. Corrigan¹, M. Cala Pane¹, A. Tredennick¹, T. Dunlap¹, L. Lomeli¹, B. Davis¹, MR.Gastonguay¹1Metrum Research Group, Boston, MA

Project Rationale

QDF Components QDF Components
Competitive Landscape
MIDD Enhanced Valuations

Rising costs, uncertain reimbursement, competition, and declining success rates have
reduced drug R&D productivity and investment over the last decade.
Proposed strategies to improve R&D productivity include four key factors: 1) leveraging all
data sources; 2) utilizing quantitative models; 3) elimination of information silos across R&D
and commercial organizations; and 4) application of decision frameworks to reduce
cognitive bias and improve decision making.1

A QDF for a drug development program in atopic dermatitis (AD) was developed to: 1) link
MIDD models aligned with a target product profile (TPP) to risk-adjusted net present value
(rNPV); and 2) integrate context-sensitive large language models (LLMs) to incorporate
non-structured data from novel sources into the decision-making framework in a responsible
manner.

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bbr.bayes: An Open-Source Tool to Facilitate an Efficient, Reproducible Bayesian Workflow Using NONMEM

July 8, 2024

Presented at PAGE 2024. The bbr.bayes package reduces much of the friction associated with a Bayesian pharmacometrics analysis in NONMEM® and promotes good practice applications.