• AI in Clinical Trials: Industry Leaders Discuss Implementation Challenges and Future Directions

    Nov 04 | Clinical Research News | At SCOPE Europe, Allison Proffitt hosted a panel of pharmaceutical industry leaders to discuss the real-world implementation of artificial intelligence in clinical trials, moving beyond theoretical benefits to address practical challenges and measurable outcomes. More

  • Pangaea, Microsoft Collaboration, First-in-Class Monoclonal Antibody for Cancer, New LLM Tech

    Oct 29 | Clinical Research News | Pangaea Data announces a collaboration with Microsoft; Ipsen acquires ImCheck Therapeutics; Flatiron Health released first-of-their-kind advances in LLM-extracted progression data and other uses; and more. More

  • Follow the Money: Best-in-Class Weight Loss Drug Trial, Novel eClinical Platform, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Other Diseases Treatments

    Oct 28 | Clinical Research News | Kailera Therapeutics advances injectable dual GLP-1/GIP receptor agonist; Almac Group plans Almac Trial Coordinator, a first-in-class interoperable clinical trial technology platform; Elvara advances their upcoming phase 2 clinical trial of its lead candidate ELV001; and more. More

  • GenAI Agents and Regulatory Compliance: Streamlining Unstructured Data Extraction Gets a Lift from GenAI Agentic Frameworks

    Oct 24 | Clinical Research News | Imagine that you’re a life sciences researcher tasked with answering a regulatory request that involves extracting meaningful data from over 200 clinical trial reports from various sources. You’re looking for patient demographics, study outcomes, adverse events, and dosage information. For decades, the industry has relied on manual effort, but GenAI agents enable far better unstructured data extraction. More

  • Europe's Clinical Trial Crisis: Industry Leaders Call for Urgent Action at SCOPE Europe

    Oct 22 | Clinical Research News | European clinical research is at a critical crossroads, industry leaders warned last week at SCOPE Europe. Regulatory fragmentation, site readiness challenges, and prolonged approval timelines are driving sponsors to more competitive markets in Asia and the United States. More

  • ‘Simple’ NLP Tool Streamlines Metastatic Cancer Research

    Oct 21 | Clinical Research News | Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) are using a “super-simple” natural language processing (NLP) tool to streamline clinical research for metastatic brain cancer, a field where rapid advances in therapy are outpacing traditional methods of data analysis. More

  • The Scope of Things: Tackling the Deadlocks in Patient Recruitment

    Oct 17 | Clinical Research News | Clinical trial recruitment has long been a hurdle in medical research, and despite decades of discussion, the obstacles are still standing, particularly in adapting marketing strategies to today’s digital world. On the latest episode of The Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz spoke with Christine Senn, senior vice president of site sponsor innovation at Advarra, about the challenges sites and sponsors face and offered some practical tactics for solving them. More

  • Anju, Clinical Trials Information Network Win Best of Show at SCOPE Europe 2025

    Oct 16 | Bio-IT World | The SCOPE Europe 2025 Best of Show winners have been announced! This year, 22 finalists presented their products in the exhibit hall, and attendees voted for the most innovative and impactful technologies, tools, products, and solutions used by life sciences. More

  • SCOPE Europe 2025 Best of Show Entries

    Oct 10 | Clinical Research News | It’s time to vote for the SCOPE Europe 2025 Best of Show awards! This year, there are 22 finalists that will be displaying their products in Barcelona. Attendees of SCOPE Europe are invited and encouraged to identify extraordinary innovative technologies used by life science professionals and to vote on the most impactful new products of the year. More

  • Out-of-the-Box CRA First ‘Agentic Teammate’ to Join Study Teams

    Oct 08 | Clinical Research News | Clinical research associates (CRAs) may soon be working alongside an artificial intelligence (AI) agent offering relief from some of the drudgery of the job, including crunching data from a dozen or more data sources in search of meaningful insights and actionable information. Medable has just launched Agent Studio, the first agentic AI platform purpose-built for life sciences that comes with an out-of-the-box CRA agent. More
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The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News Senior writer Deborah Borfitz welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.

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