• The Evolving Role of the Clinical Data Manager

    Clinical Research News | As gastrointestinal (GI) trials grow more sophisticated, the volume, velocity, and variety of study data have all expanded. One of the fastest-growing streams is electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs): diaries, symptom scores, quality-of-life surveys, and other instruments that come straight from the participant. Collecting this data quickly and conveniently is now mission critical.

    Aug 1, 2025

  • TrialX, ALS Network Partnership, Novel Multi-Cancer Detection Blood Test, More

    Clinical Research News | TrialX has joined a partnership with the ALS Network; Fred Hutch Cancer Center has launched the Vanguard Study, a national study of a new type of blood test that screens several different cancers called multi-cancer detection (MCD) tests; and more.

    Jul 31, 2025

  • Follow the Money: Platform Creates Detailed Tumor Profiles, AI Helps with Clinical Trial Benchmarking, More

    Clinical Research News | One Biosciences will further develop its OneMap platform, which creates detailed functional profiles of patient tumors that may help with optimizing clinical trials; Argon AI plans to expand their to build customized AI agents that can automate tasks, including clinical trial benchmarking; and more.

    Jul 30, 2025

  • The Connectivity Factor: How Interoperability, via AI Agents, Speeds Precision Medicine

    Clinical Research News | What if trial timelines could be cut by years—just by improving how R&D systems and ecosystems talk to each other? In a recent study using generative AI (GAI) to aid decision-making from an integrated data ecosystem, trials sped up by more than 12 months.

    Jul 25, 2025

  • AI-Powered Cell Mapping Could Transform Precision Oncology and Accelerate Clinical Trials

    Clinical Research News | Scientists at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) are tackling the massive computational problem of determining the distinct types of cells inhabiting biopsied tissue. Their endgame is to deploy a suite of interoperable artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can accurately and reliably guide prescribing decisions for patients with cancer as well as predict their response to investigational treatments prior to enrollment.

    Jul 22, 2025

  • How ‘Living’ Datasets Will Shape the Future of Precision Medicine

    Clinical Research News | Imagine trying to piece together a puzzle with half the pieces missing—that’s what happens when data is siloed. Without integrated, centralized data across sources, data decisions are made using incomplete, fragmented datasets.

    Jul 18, 2025

  • New Kind of Trial Tests Multiomics-Based Therapy Predictions

    Clinical Research News | As gastrointestinal (GI) trials grow more sophisticated, the volume, velocity, and variety of study data have all expanded. One of the fastest-growing streams is electronic patient-reported outcomes (ePROs): diaries, symptom scores, quality-of-life surveys, and other instruments that come straight from the participant. Collecting this data quickly and conveniently is now mission critical.

    Jul 17, 2025

  • Novel Blood Test Offers Early Cancer Treatment Response Monitoring in Clinical Trials

    Clinical Research News | A fragmentation-based blood test is providing pharmaceutical companies with a new way to monitor cancer treatment response in clinical trials, informing how drug efficacy is evaluated in early-stage development. Delfi Diagnostics has developed DELFI-TF (DELFI-tumor fraction), a research-grade assay that uses a unique fragmentation approach to detect circulating tumor DNA in blood samples.

    Jul 15, 2025

  • Smarter Starts, Stronger Trials: How Data is Driving Faster Site Activation

    Clinical Research News | Feasibility, site selection, and study startup remain some of the most time-consuming and unpredictable phases of drug development. They are also tightly interconnected, making even small delays or inefficiencies during this period especially impactful, rippling across a study’s timeline and budget and affecting site relationships and patient access.

    Jul 11, 2025

  • Scope of Things: Pragmatic Trials’ Growing Importance

    Clinical Research News | The growing importance of pragmatic clinical trials in healthcare research cannot be overstated. In the most recent episode of the Scope of Things podcast, host Deborah Borfitz speaks with Bethany Kwan, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, and Heather Smyth, Colorado School of Public Health. Together they explore the fundamental distinctions between traditional clinical trials and pragmatic research approaches, uncovering why this methodology is experiencing such significant growth in modern healthcare research.

    Jul 9, 2025

  • ICH E6(R3) Guidance: Elevating Trials through Collaboration

    Clinical Research News | After 15 years of development, Stanford University's Tom Soh is preparing to take his biosensor technology from laboratory rats to human volunteers. The device, which can continuously monitor molecules in flowing blood for up to seven days, represents a potential paradigm shift in clinical medicine.

    Jul 3, 2025

  • Stanford's Blood Flow Biosensor Heads to Human Trials

    Clinical Research News | After 15 years of development, Stanford University's Tom Soh is preparing to take his biosensor technology from laboratory rats to human volunteers. The device, which can continuously monitor molecules in flowing blood for up to seven days, represents a potential paradigm shift in clinical medicine.

    Jul 2, 2025

  • Walgreens ‘Built the Vessel’ for Making Clinical Trials a Care Option

    Clinical Research News | In the span of three years, Walgreens—an integral part of communities across the U.S. for well over a century—has positioned itself as a key player in the clinical trial ecosystem highlighted by more than 35 biopharma partnerships and the engagement of over 17 million customers participating in industry-sponsored studies. The thesis that co-locating trials where patients are “actually works."

    Jul 1, 2025

  • Follow the Money: Migraine Therapy, Reducing Trial Failure, More

    Clinical Research News | Salvia plans to further develop MySalvia Therapy in a multi-center, double-blind, sham-controlled study for people with chronic migraine; Vivodyne plans to scale its robotics+AI approach to testing on thousands of lab-grown, fully-functional human tissues, which aim to reduce human clinical trial failure; and more.

    Jun 25, 2025

  • Veeva, Sarah Cannon Research Institute Collaboration, City of Hope Receives Grant, More

    Clinical Research News | Veeva and Sarah Cannon Research Institute has entered a strategic collaboration; City of Hope was awarded an up to $23.7 million contract from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health within the US Department of Health and Human Services; and more.

    Jun 24, 2025

  • Beyond Vitals: How Patient-Generated Data is Driving AI’s Healthcare Transformation

    Clinical Research News | In recent years, AI in healthcare has attracted growing interest and investment, with new roles like Chief AI Officer and AI-specific policies underscoring its transformative potential. However, one critical factor is often overlooked: the quality of the data used to train AI algorithms. While AI’s impact is undeniable, its effectiveness depends on the depth, diversity, and granularity of the data it processes.

    Jun 20, 2025

  • Genetic Testing Transforms Medication Prescribing for Better Patient Outcomes

    Clinical Research News | The UK National Health Service’s PROGRESS trial has achieved remarkable clinical success, with one in four patients having their prescriptions adjusted based on genetic test results, leading to safer and more effective treatments. The PROGRESS trial’s interim results reveal that 95% of the 500 patients tested carried genetic variants that directly influence how they metabolize common medications.

    Jun 18, 2025

  • AI Agent Speeds Up Trials with Instant, Personalized Participant Interactions

    Clinical Research News | An artificial intelligence (AI) agent known as Grace is bringing clinical trials some much-needed speed and cost reduction and delivering more personalized, on-demand digital experiences for participants. Developed by fast-growing Grove AI, Grace has over the past year powered more than 50 phase 2 and 3 trials involving over 500,000 interactions with would-be and enrolled trial participants.

    Jun 17, 2025

  • IQVIA, NVIDIA Build AI Agents for Clinical Research

    Clinical Research News | Today, IQVIA announced multiple AI orchestrator agents in collaboration with NVIDIA. These specialized agentic systems—covering trial start-up, target identification, clinical data review, and more—are designed to manage and accelerate drug development workflows for IQVIA customers.

    Jun 11, 2025

  • Clinical Research Reveals Third Castleman Disease Subtype After 45 Years

    Clinical Research News | Researchers have made a landmark discovery in rare disease clinical research by identifying a new subtype of Castleman disease, marking the first major advancement in disease classification since the 1970s. The breakthrough demonstrates how patient-driven research registries can overcome traditional barriers in rare disease studies to generate clinically meaningful insights.

    Jun 10, 2025