• Insights From COVID-19 Studies, And Other News

    Clinical Research News | New evidence may explain why men are more vulnerable to COVID-19 than women. An association between low average levels of vitamin D and high numbers of COVID-19 cases, and more. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 15, 2020

  • FDA Guidance: Q+A on Clinical Trial Operations Amidst COVID-19

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | The Food and Drug Administration, like everyone one in American society today, is having to adapt its oversight and enforcement of clinical studies to be more flexible while still protecting the safety and rights of study participants and staff. This is clearly harder than it sounds.

    May 13, 2020

  • COVID-19 And Cancer: Global Snapshot of Patient Experiences

    Clinical Research News | Oncology specialists working in pandemic hot spots around the world shared their experiences in treating COVID-19 infection in patients with cancer at the virtually held 2020 annual meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

    May 12, 2020

  • Virtual Trial Now Enrolling To Exploring Immune Response to COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | Adaptive Biotechnologies, in partnership with Microsoft, has begun enrolling a virtual clinical study, ImmuneRACE, to rapidly map and measure the immune response to the COVID-19 virus.

    May 11, 2020

  • Ethical Framework for Clinical Trials for COVID-19 And More

    Clinical Research News| Data emerges from the US and France exploring the safety issues of hydroxychloroquine, and research looks at how cancer patients are faring COVID-19. Arizona State University tracks SARS-CoV-2 mutations, and new data is released on anticoagulants. Clinical trials look at how the disease impacts the kidneys and who is most likely to be infected. We round up the week’s research and industry news for COVID-19.

    May 8, 2020

  • Functional Service Provision, Full Service Outsourcing Models Have Key Roles to Play in Outsourced Drug Development as Clinical Trials Evolve

    Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Recent developments have seen hybrid models come into the market as service providers seek to both align their products with customer wishes but also gain competitive advantage.

    May 6, 2020

  • A Push To Address Issue Of Diversity In Clinical Trials

    Clinical Research News | Researchers have noticed a lack of diversity when it comes to patient engagement for clinical trials. Several initiatives have taken steps to address this dilemma.

    May 5, 2020

  • Follow the Money: Digital Twins, Real World Patient Recruitment, More

    Clinical Research News | New life sciences fund closes in Europe, and big investments in Trialbee’s RWD patient recruitment, Unlearn.AI’s digital twins for study control arm, and much more.

    May 4, 2020

  • Recent Studies From China Suggest Possible COVID-19 Treatments: Updates On Research Community’s Response To The Virus

    Clinical Research News | The clinical research community is continuing to gain momentum as it searches for solutions to COVID-19. This week brought several new insights to the table, including recent studies suggesting potential treatments for the virus and strategic plans for accelerating COVId-19 research.

    May 1, 2020

  • COVID-19, CluePoints, AiCure, And More: News From April 2020

    Clinical Research News | April was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from CluePoints, AiCure, as well as recent attempts to combat COVID-19.

    Apr 29, 2020

  • Colonbiome Project: Pilot Finds Two Sequencing Methods Compatible

    Clinical Research News | A growing body of research points to the potential of gut microbes as markers for early diagnosis of severe illnesses, including colon cancer. For researchers with the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute and Catalan Institute of Oncology in Barcelona, the collection of gut microbiome data is just the starting point for the vast statistical stew they’ll eventually be mining for answers.

    Apr 28, 2020

  • Clinical Research Community Continues Consorted Effort To Address COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | As world governments continue to address the spread of COVID-19, the clinical research community is looking for ways to manage and treat for the virus as well. Recent efforts include studies related to children infected with the virus, a COVID-19 convalescent plasma study, and much more.

    Apr 24, 2020

  • ACCESS Initiative Connects Investigators To Homebound Americans For COVID-19 Research

    Clinical Research News | Medable has announced a multi-company research framework to accelerate development of diagnostics and treatments for COVID-19. The ACCESS initiative—American COVID-19 Collaborative Enabling Seamless Science—provides a mobile consumer application and secure infrastructure to quickly connect millions of home-bound Americans with health researchers and clinical trial teams.

    Apr 23, 2020

  • Trial Disruptions In Uncertain Times: Q&A With 4G’s Barry Moore

    Clinical Research News| Study sponsors are facing an unprecedented level of clinical supply disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. We spoke to Barry Moore of 4G Clinical for insights on the current struggles of clinical supply study managers, innovations being deployed and ways to build a more resilient supply chain for future trials.

    Apr 21, 2020

  • Cytel, UPMC, And More: Clinical Research Community Continues Fight Against COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | The clinical research community continues to aggressively research and innovate for SARS-CoV-2 solutions. The latest this week includes many COVID-19 trials, patient registries, PPE exchanges, and much more.

    Apr 17, 2020

  • Exploring Convalescent Plasma For COVID-19 Treatment

    Clinical Research News| In our pell-mell race to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 virus and how best to treat the disease it causes, researchers all over the world are exploring how blood plasma from patients who have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 might help others who are sick.

    Apr 16, 2020

  • Clinical Trial Participation Act Aims To Ease Patient Reimbursement For Trials

    Clinical Research News | A non-profit foundation is spearheading legislation that give thousands of underserved and hopeful cancer patients access to clinical trials and potential life-saving drugs.

    Apr 15, 2020

  • NIH Launches Nationwide COVID-19 Antibody Testing Study

    Clinical Research NewsThe National Institutes of Health announced a new study last week to determine how many adults in the United States without a confirmed history of infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), have antibodies to the virus indicating a prior infection.

    Apr 14, 2020

  • NIH, AWS, PatientSource, And More: Clinical Research Community Rallies Against COVID-19

    Clinical Research News | The SARS-CoV-2 virus is serving as a rallying cry across the clinical research landscape, inspiring creative new solutions, partnerships, and ideas to address the outbreak, treat and prevent the disease it causes, and address the life adjustments of our new normal.

    Apr 10, 2020

  • Applying AI To Clinical Data: Pfizer’s Approach to Identifying Use Cases

    Clinical Research News | The machine learning capabilities of four companies were put to the test in a first-of-its-kind hackathon organized by Pfizer late last year where the singular goal was to see whether artificial intelligence (AI) could predict and identify data discrepancies from datasets of 30 completed clinical trials.

    Apr 9, 2020