2016 marked an important milestone in our continued global expansion as we opened our first permanent offshore PHASTAR office located in Nairobi, Kenya. Our new office is located to the south east of Nairobi, equidistant between the city centre and airport:
This expansion built on our established… read more ties with Kenya with three of our long serving employees already working from Nairobi, including one member of staff who has been appointed Director of PHASTAR Kenya. Kenya has an excellent educational infrastructure, with an education system based on the colonial British schooling system, although there was a Kenyan education system documented in a 1728 Swahili manuscript. There is a rich community of medical research going on in Nairobi, which is the leading centre in Africa for research in infectious and tropical diseases. A team of experienced local statisticians and programmers with a strong background in analytics and statistics have also been appointed.
We have an ongoing exchange programme, sending our senior UK-based programmers to Nairobi for an extended secondments to facilitate knowledge exchange and deliver PHASTAR training to the new staff, including CDISC standards, PHASTAR’s systems and processes and our in-house approach to ensuring quality – the “PHASTAR Discipline”. Within a very short period the team’s ability, enthusiasm and drive to pick up new skills has been evident. The team are now applying what they have learnt in reporting clinical data.
PHASTAR work with small and large pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to provide statistical consulting and to summarise, analyse and report clinical trials. Our top priority is the quality of our work, ensuring we give you the best statistical advice, and analyse your clinical data optimally, getting it right first time. There are lots of different ways to analyse a set of data. We can advise on how to get the most out of your data. Statistics is an art!
We can work with our own internal systems and processes or seamlessly incorporate with your teams. We can manage and deliver whole clinical trial programs, or give you advice on a trial you are planning.
Our Vision
Our vision is to become the supplier of choice for statistics to the pharma and biotech sector, by delivering quality advice and results, on time and on budget.
History
Kevin Kane, PHASTAR’s founder, started working with pharmaceutical companies in 1990. After a number of years in a variety of statistical positions of increasing responsibility, Kevin hired two other statisticians to join him in 2007, and PHASTAR was born. Due to our reputation for outstanding quality, demand for our work has steadily increased. In 2012 we moved to larger premises in Chiswick, West London (UK). PHASTAR remains a privately owned, successful and growing company.
Quality
Our focus is always on the quality of the statistical advice and clinical trial reports that we produce. At PHASTAR, we do things differently. We have a unique approach to the analysis of data, “The PHASTAR Discipline”, that all new team members are trained in. Additionally, we have operational measures to ensure that the vast experience of our team is leveraged into every single report that we produce.