• SCOPE 2025 Names West Clinical Research, Stitch as Site Innovation Award Winners

    May 23 | Clinical Research News | West Clinical Research (WCR) and Stitch were named the Site Innovation Award winners at this year’s SCOPE Summit in Orlando. The Site Innovation Award at SCOPE recognizes sites and partnerships pioneering new approaches to improve clinical trials. WCR and Stitch’s collaboration produced a platform, also called Stitch, that is designed to optimize trial participants’ experiences while also improving other aspects of trial participation and for site staff labor. More

  • Multi-Center Study Validates AI Tools for Precision Cancer Diagnostics

    May 21 | Clinical Research News | A clinical research initiative has demonstrated that artificial intelligence could significantly enhance the identification of patients eligible for targeted breast cancer therapies, according to preliminary findings presented by Friends of Cancer Research. More

  • The Scope of Things: Tackling Misinformation, Updated Guidelines to Clinical Trial Reports, More

    May 20 | Clinical Research News | This month at the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest news on a precision medicine initiative in Sweden integrating research with healthcare, guideline updates on the reporting of clinical trials, and more. Briony Swire-Thompson, director of the Psychology of Misinformation Lab at Northeastern University Network Science Institute, also joins in to discuss the current misinformation epidemic and how clinical trials and sites can best deal with it. More

  • Solving Patient Recruitment: Privacy Protection, Data Standardization, More

    May 15 | Clinical Research News | Patient recruitment remains a “never-ending challenge." Despite efforts to leverage real-world data to alleviate the difficulties, there has not been a surefire solution. During April’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, panelists gathered to discuss the roots of the problem and share ideas that could potentially solve this issue. More

  • AI Platform Could Aid Precision Dosing for Multiple Conditions

    May 13 | Clinical Research News | Given information on two blood biomarkers, together with drug type and dose, artificial intelligence (AI) was used to create personalized “digital twins” of cancer patients in an interventional clinical trial at a pair of Singapore hospitals. The goal was to “optimize only their own doses, dynamically." More

  • The Path To TMF Inspection-Readiness

    May 09 | Clinical Research News | Regulators are tightening their scrutiny of the trial master file (TMF), placing the onus on companies to be ready for evaluation. Inspection-readiness should be embedded from the beginning, rather than a reaction to a notice of an inspection. More

  • ALS Research Getting a Big Boost from Open Science Initiative

    May 08 | Clinical Research News | A diagnosis of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is devastating news given to about 5,000 people in the U.S. each year. It is a rare central nervous system disease without a cure that relentlessly progresses, although death variably occurs anywhere from a few months to many years after symptoms first become noticeable. More

  • Joan Chambers on the Impact of Decentralized Clinical Trials

    May 06 | Clinical Research News | At last month’s Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, Joan Chambers, Senior Consultant at Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CDSS), spoke extensively about the future of clinical trials, particularly on the impact of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs), approaches that improve accessibility and convenience for the trial process, and insights on solutions for patient recruitment and retention. More

  • Mayo Clinic New Research, BioProcess360’s New Biotech Company, Flatiron Health, Massive Bio Partnership, More

    Apr 30 | Clinical Research News | FYR announced a collaboration with Mayo Clinic seeking to advance the use of blood-based biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease research and clinical applications; BioProcess360 Partners announced the formation of ChromaGenix, a new biotechnology company focused on advancing downstream purification technologies for emerging biotherapeutics; Flatiron Health announced a strategic partnership with Massive Bio to expand patient identification capabilities and improve clinical trial enrollment across the US; and more. More

  • Follow the Money: AIRNA’s RNA Editor, Rare Disease Trial, More

    Apr 29 | Clinical Research News | AIRNA will further develop its AIR-001 to address AATD by targeting and repairing the SERPINA1 mutation in the RNA transcript; Glycomine will advance its lead candidate, GLM101, into a Phase 2b clinical trial for a rare and life-threatening genetic disorder with no approved treatments; and more. 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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