I recently ran across this quote from Mithat Gönen of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center:
While there are certainly some at other centers, the bulk of applied Bayesian clinical trial design in this country is largely confined to a single zip code.
from “Bayesian clinical trials: no more excuses,” Clinical Trials 2009; 6; 203.
The zip code Gönen alludes to is 77030, the zip code of M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. I can’t say how much activity there is elsewhere, but certainly we design and conduct a lot of Bayesian clinical trials at MDACC.
Update: After over a decade working at MDACC, I left to start my own consulting business. If you’d like help with adaptive clinical trials please let me know.
I’m doing my part to break the monopoly.