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Anju, Biorce, Medidata, Phastar Take Home Best of Show Awards from SCOPE 2025
Feb 06 | Clinical Research News | Winners were named in the 2025 SCOPE Best of Show Awards yesterday. With more than 60 new product finalists on display on the Exhibit Hall floor and more than 300 attendees voting on their favorite new products, the Best of Show program at SCOPE highlights the very best in innovation and new technologies in clinical research. More -
Narrowing the Gap Between Clinical Research and Clinical Care
Feb 05 | Clinical Research News | The growing convergence between clinical research and clinical care—and ways the second Trump administration will be encouraging and supporting movement in that direction—was the topic of the opening keynote presentation made at this week’s Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Orlando. More -
Grove AI Named the 2025 Participant Engagement Award Winner
Feb 04 | Clinical Research News | In a contest focused on the finalist themes of AI (artificial intelligence), DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), and community engagement, a winner was chosen to be the 9th Annual Participant Engagement Award during opening ceremonies yesterday at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in Orlando. This year’s top honor went to Grove AI for personalizing participant recruitment and engagement at scale using a smart bot named Grace acting as a clinical research assistant. More -
Best of Show Finalists at SCOPE 2025
Jan 31 | Clinical Research News | The Best of Show People’s Choice Award Finalists are now announced for next week’s 2025 Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE). With a record number of finalists, this promises to be the most competitive year yet for clinical new products. More -
Proceed With Caution When Decentralizing Oncology Trials
Jan 30 | Clinical Research News | Patients with cancer typically have a strong emotional connection with their doctors and nurses that is an important part of their healing process. It follows that those taking an investigational therapy should be offered decentralized clinical trial (DCT) components that serve to enhance that bond rather than do away with it, according to Peter O’Neill, vice president of clinical operations at TuHURA Biosciences, Inc. More -
Follow the Money: Clinical Platforms, Ophthalmology, New Trials
Jan 29 | Clinical Research News | New funding this month includes cash for “the anti-CRO” eClinical platform, novel obesity drugs, ophthalmology, and more. More -
Community Partners Look at Trial Design, New 23andMe Research Offering, More
Jan 28 | Clinical Research News | A new UTHealth Houston project plans to engage community partners to improve the design of clinical trials; Advarra releases a Study Collaboration solution; 23andMe launches new clinical research product; more. More -
Set For Success: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Clinical Data Conformity In Medical Device Trials
Jan 24 | Clinical Research News | The Medical Devices Regulation 2017/745 and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation 2017/746 have greatly enhanced the requirements related to the performance, conduct, monitoring, recording and reporting of medical device clinical investigations in the European Union (EU). This tightening of clinical requirements under the EU Regulations has been cited as a key issue in the claims that medical devices are disappearing from use within the EU. More -
AI-Powered Study Startup Platform Latest Addition to Pi Health Arsenal
Jan 23 | Clinical Research News | A spinoff of global biotech company BeiGene is looking to transform the clinical development of oncology medicines with a software platform integrating all the features study sponsors and sites need to conduct trials and communicate with each other in a compliant way. More -
Digital Measures: What’s in it for Patients?
Jan 21 | Clinical Research News | Like two other major advancements in the past 200 years, the stethoscope and X-ray imaging, digital health technologies (DHTs) are giving “a whole new perspective” on human health. Earlier innovations enabled doctors to hear and see inside the human body, and the addition of digital measures of health offer a view into people’s everyday lives when they’re outside the clinic setting. More


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.