Finch Studio is an integrated modeling environment for pharmacometricians, clinical pharmacologists, and other team members to visualize, develop, and organize PK/PD models and data. It includes a modern NONMEM code editor and workbench, interactive data tables and visualizations, and a PK/PD model library with > 100 starting model templates (with more continuously being added).

Finch Studio is developed by the team at Enhanced Pharmacodynamics LLC, a provider of strategic model-informed drug development led by Donald Mager and Scott Van Wart in Buffalo, NY. The Finch development team is comprised of a diverse group led by Mohamed Ismail and includes software developers, pharmacometricians, clinical pharmacologists, and data scientists.

Finch Studio has useful features for all members of the modeling team. While the primary intended users are pharmacometricians, the software includes features helpful to clinical pharmacologists, data programmers, senior leadership, and QA/QC specialists. The intuitive interface is as powerful as it is easy to use, making it ideal for beginners and advanced users alike.

Finch Studio is built to support modeling with NONMEM, the industry standard in population PK/PD analyses. It also integrates nicely with existing support tools such as Perl Speaks NONMEM (PsN), xpose, and R.

Finch Studio is a modern take on the pharmacometric workbench and provides a more enjoyable, streamlined experience than existing solutions. It has all the features you would come to expect from a modeling workbench while introducing differentiating features including:

• A powerful NONMEM code editor with live error checking, code completion, documentation on hover, and code folding.
• Seamlessly available (and very fast!) interactive visualizations for data exploration, review of diagnostic plots, and collaborative discussions of data insights.
• Smart model templates that create ready-to-run NONMEM control streams from a model library of >100 PK/PD models.
• Easy and fast creation of statistical summary tables.
• Built in SSH and SFTP functionality to connect to remote modeling servers, transfer files, and execute models remotely (without the need for external software such as Putty or Filezilla).
• Structured project folders, automatically organizing model runs into separate directories.

Yes, Finch Studio is available cross platform (Windows, Mac, and Linux), including server versions of these operating systems. In addition, Finch has built-in SSH and SFTP capabilities (without needing external software such as Putty or FileZilla), making it easy to transfer files back and forth between your local environment and server and execute remote commands.

Yes, all companies can request a 1-month evaluation trial to try out the software.

Yes, we offer workshops throughout the year, typically in association with pharmacometric conferences (ACoP, PAGE). We also provide tailored, on-demand web-based or in-person workshops for both commercial organizations and universities. Contact us to request a workshop.

The name Finch for a software application was first thought of while Mohamed was a grad student working on an entirely different project - an evolutionary algorithm for pharmacometric analyses. The Galapagos finches played an important role in Darwin's research on the theory of evolution. Mohamed liked the short, simple name and the resourceful nature of the finch, and convinced the ePD team to stick with it for our pharmacometric workbench.