• Follow the Money: Whole Blood Product Transfuses Soldiers in Active Combat, UC Davis Launches Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics Research Institute, More

    Clinical Research News | Funding for various metabolomic research advancements, therapeutic developments, and precision medicine applications, a new federally funded research program testing the safety and efficacy of tools for trauma victims with numerous complex injuries, accelerating research across the field of synthetic biology, and more.

    Feb 21, 2023

  • Precision Oncology: Targeting the Ongoing Clinical Staffing Challenges

    Clinical Research News | Recent staffing challenges spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic have played a sustained, negative role in clinical trial workflows. However, through precision technology, healthcare providers can decrease turnover rates and reduce the major ongoing clinical trial workflow challenges resulting from lower personnel.

    Feb 17, 2023

  • A Long Time Coming On Digital Endpoints

    Clinical Research News | Efforts to use digital endpoints to modernize clinical trials have been slowed by an assortment of challenges. But the field will be getting a big push in the right direction in another few months when the first hard evidence will be published demonstrating digital endpoints can live up to their promise of delivering smaller, speedier trials.

    Feb 16, 2023

  • Merck Outlines Structure of Saama Partnership on AI for Clinical Data

    Clinical Research News | AI for clinical data was the subject of several presentations at the recent Summit for Clinical Ops Executives event in Orlando, Fla. SCOPE speakers from across big pharma shared their use cases in applying artificial intelligence and machine learning to various parts of the clinical research process.

    Feb 15, 2023

  • Janssen Redefining Decentralized Clinical Trials With Retail And Mobile Clinics

    Clinical Research News | Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a Johnson & Johnson company) is customizing the way it conducts clinical trials, utilizing retail clinics on their own or with an affiliate healthcare system as well as mobile clinics stationed outside long-term care facilities in the community. This will enable study teams to choose the model that best suits a trial and participants to “choose the adventure” they most prefer.

    Feb 14, 2023

  • Sponsors Asked To Seize The Day On ‘Wisdom Of The Crowd’ Study Solutions

    Clinical Research News | At this week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, Genentech’s Virginia Nido delivered a call to action to her industry peers, asking them to learn the landscape of collaboratively developed clinical trials solutions and start using them.

    Feb 10, 2023

  • SCOPE Awards for Anju, EmVenio, Medidata, StudyKIK, uMotif

    Clinical Research News | ORLANDO—Clinical Research News and ClinEco announced the 2023 SCOPE Best of Show awards yesterday at SCOPE. Products from Anju Software, EmVenio, Medidata, StudyKIK, and uMotif took top honors.

    Feb 9, 2023

  • 2023 Participant Engagement Award Winner Announced

    Clinical Research News | A winner has been chosen for the 7th Annual Participant Engagement Award and was announced after a live presentation and judging session at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives, on February 6, 2023, in Orlando, Fla.

    Feb 7, 2023

  • Dr. Graham Hatfull on Trialing Bacteriophages for Unprecedented Therapeutic Gains

    Clinical Research News | In the latest episode of the Scope of Things podcast, Graham Hatfull, professor of biological sciences at the University of Pittsburgh, speaks with host Deborah Borfitz about his team’s work to showcase bacteriophages as versatile therapeutic agents.

    Feb 7, 2023

  • uMotif, ActiGraph Announce eCOA/ePRO, Wearable Device Partnership

    Clinical Research News | At the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives—SCOPE—event in Orlando, Fla., this week, uMotif and ActiGraph announced a partnership to make clinical trials more patient-centric and lower burden for participants. The partnership will leverage uMotif’s eCOA/ePRO platform, which streamlines patient engagement and data collection, and ActiGraph's leading expertise in clinical-grade wearable technology.

    Feb 6, 2023

  • A Data-Driven Approach to Clinical Development in Alzheimer’s

    Clinical Research News | In 2020, more than 55 million people lived with dementia. This number is predicted to more than double every twenty years. With the right technology and data science approach, companies can piece together disparate datasets, uncover new insights, and develop therapies to slow the disease.

    Feb 3, 2023

  • To Retain Top Talent, Keep Your Eye On The Ball

    Clinical Research News | Retaining employees despite change factors in and outside the workplace is largely about staying the course with morale-building programs that help people feel supported and their efforts matter. While some level of employee turnover is inevitable, avoiding the spikes may require companywide investment in engaging hired talent to ensure they have the skillset for meeting business goals.

    Feb 2, 2023

  • At AbbVie, Machine Learning Aids Selection Of Clinical Trial Sites

    Clinical Research News | At AbbVie, the introduction of machine learning into the site selection process for clinical studies is reaping tangible returns by increasing the number of sites meeting enrollment and startup time goals by more than 50%. The algorithm helps study teams identify the best sites for a particular trial based on a quantitative analysis of their performance in similar studies done in the past.

    Feb 1, 2023

  • 35+ New Products Eligible for Inaugural SCOPE Best of Show Awards

    Clinical Research News | Clinical Research News and ClinEco are pleased to announce the finalists for the first SCOPE Best of Show Awards. Thirty-five new products presented at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in February in Orlando, Fla. have been chosen as finalists in the inagural awards program, recognizing the best new products enabling clinical trials and clincial research.

    Jan 31, 2023

  • MD Anderson Launches Gamma-Delta T-Cell Therapy Study, New Multi-Year Multi-Omics Cancer Resistance Mechanisms Research, More

    Clinical Research News | A major new initiative in cancer research to study the role and function of the non-coding genome and epigenome in multiple cancer types; the first one-stop-shop decentralized clinical trial platform bundled with site and trial execution services for the digital therapeutics market; a unique and unparalleled suite of early to late-phase CRO services across Europe, the US, and Asia Pacific; and more.

    Jan 26, 2023

  • Follow the Money: PCORI Opens Nine Research Funding Opportunities, Novel Transcriptome-Wide Profiling Research, More

    Clinical Research News | Funding for preclinical development and clinical proof-of-concept therapeutic studies, comparative clinical effectiveness research to help patients and other stakeholders make better-informed health choices, clinical decision support expansion for diagnostic and surveillance tools, and more.

    Jan 24, 2023

  • Revolutionizing Payment Products is Vital for Increasing Clinical Trial Participant Satisfaction and Diversity

    Clinical Research News | Patient-centricity has become a buzzword in clinical trials, but many practical barriers still limit diversity and reduce participant satisfaction. As an industry, our true north should be making it easier to participate in clinical trials for a meaningful impact on patients and significant added value for sponsors.

    Jan 20, 2023

  • Retinal Organoid-Derived Neurons to Potentially Cure Degenerative Eye Disease

    Clinical Research News | A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science demonstrates the potential for lab-grown retinal neurons to reestablish synaptic function and cure neurodegenerative eye disease, according to researchers from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

    Jan 18, 2023

  • Improving Pediatric Clinical Trial Development in 2023

    Clinical Research News | A clinical trial’s path from initial design to completion is exceptionally complex. Poor patient recruitment and low retention rates complicate the clinical trial process, especially in studies for children with rare diseases. Thankfully, patient concierge services will offer immense insight into the unique support needs of individual pediatric patients and their families and increase the success rates for life-saving treatments.

    Jan 13, 2023

  • Virtual Site Brings Speed, Diversity, And Engagement To Digital Therapeutic Trial

    Clinical Research News | Digital therapeutics are a natural fit with the decentralized clinical trial model and the COVID-19 pandemic has been a major driver of demand for both. The hybrid-designed PROSPER-FM trial is a good case in point. The devices being studied are a digital Acceptance and Commitment Therapy program and digital symptom tracker for adults with fibromyalgia and the single virtual site, run by Curavit, has been enrolling 10 times more patients than all other bricks-and-mortar sites starting at the same time.

    Jan 11, 2023