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BioIVT’s acquisition of Clinical Trial Laboratory Services (CTLS) and its London donor center is enabling this rapid turnaround time for high quality blood-derived immune cells for cell and gene therapy research

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Improved technology and features will make it easier for patients living with Parkinson’s disease and healthy volunteers who want to advance medical research to find and connect to appropriate clinical trials

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MR Solutions will be displaying its latest dry magnet 3T to 9.4T preclinical, multi-modality MRI (with PET or SPECT) and new benchtop PET/CT systems to the imaging science community at the 15th European Molecular Imaging Meeting (EMIM 2020) on March 24 – 27, 2020 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

Mar 3, 2020, 10:35 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | Clinical trials have changed significantly over the past several years. As drugs and devices—and the conditions they are trying to impact—have become increasingly more complex, so has the design and structure of clinical trials. But protocols are costly to change and identifying and enrolling the right patient cohorts is also no easy feat—especially when rare diseases are the target. Study teams are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to keep up with this rapid pace of change.

Mar 2, 2020, 08:15 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | Study sponsors looking to improve recruitment and retention in clinical studies—particularly for rare disease research where patients are in scarce supply—might want to apply some of the proven tactics recently shared by Signant Health and UBC at the 11th Annual Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) in Orlando.

Feb 28, 2020, 08:57 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | As part of its ongoing efforts to build a patient-centric culture, Takeda is taking patient engagement in drug development to a whole new level, according to Jessica Scott, M.D., JD, head of R&D patient engagement. “Patients want to be part of the process and share the experience with us,” she said from the stage at the 11th Annual Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) last week in Orlando.

Feb 27, 2020, 10:31 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | Members of the clinical trial and research community recently convened in Orlando, Fla, for the 11th annual Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE). For four days, pharmaceutical companies, trial sponsors, healthcare organizations, and patient advocacy groups discussed the latest advances and innovative solutions in all aspects of clinical trial planning, management, and operation. Here are some of the bits and pieces we collected during the summit.

Feb 27, 2020, 10:21 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | February was full of exciting news in the clinical trial and healthcare community, including partnerships, products, and promotions from ICER, TrialScope, ClinOne, and more.

Feb 26, 2020, 08:55 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | At Merck, the job of ensuring patient information about medicines and diseases is easy to understand falls to the one-person team of Global Health Literacy Director Laurie Myers, MBA, and she’s adamant that best practices in the field need to be shared. “Patients have the right to understand information to make informed and empowered decisions,” she said during her plenary keynote at the 11th Annual Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE) last week in Orlando.

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This acquisition will spur the development of new drugs to treat complex neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.

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Funding from Biovia, Elsevier, GSK, Novartis, and Roche (and recently BMS), helps build a comprehensive data model and file format for chemical reactions to support Lab of The Future and AI adoption

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The release announces a new clinical collaboration with Roche (SIX:RO, ROG), to explore the co-administration of SB 11285, Spring Bank’s intravenously (IV)-administered STING (STimulator of INterferon Gene) agonist with Roche’s PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitor atezolizumab (Tecentriq®) in patients with advanced solid tumors.

Feb 25, 2020, 12:29 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News Contributed Commentary | The use of direct source data capture in clinical research is on the rise, both during clinic visits and remotely by patients. This includes investigator-led and patient self-assessments using laptops or tablet devices, patient diary information using hand-held mobile devices, and wearable sensors that automatically record and transmit various health-related measurements (glucose levels, heart rate, etc.).

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TriNetX, the global health research network that revolutionizes clinical research and enables discoveries through the generation of real-world evidence (RWE), today announced that Raremark, a patient-data platform focused on rare disease, has partnered with the TriNetX network to bring more clinical trials to its community. 

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Streck R&D Scientific Manager Dr. Nicholas George will give a presentation on our newest blood collection tube, RNA Complete BCT, at the 27th International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference in San Francisco.

Feb 20, 2020, 10:46 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News |ORLANDO—A day ahead of the 2020 Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE), stakeholders from across the clinical trials enterprise convened for a campfire-style chat on ways to elevate the status of clinical research as a scientific discipline and foster collaboration and pre-competitive knowledge sharing to improve trial conduct. The SCOPE Scientific Symposium (SSS) was led by a half dozen leaders from AbbVie, Pfizer, Biogen, Boston Millennia Partners (BMP), and the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development (CSDD), with more than 50 others actively engaged in the dialogue.

Feb 19, 2020, 09:30 by User Not Found

Clinical Research News | TrialScout receives the 2020 Participant Engagement Award for its #FindtheFive campaign, a social media campaign that uses TrialScout’s platform to harness the input from the over five million Americans that have participated in some form of clinical research over the past ten years.

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TrialScope announces the appointment of Craig Lipset and Scott Ballenger to the TrialScope Connect advisory board. TrialScope Connect is an online clinical trial recruitment collective designed address the challenges stakeholders face in accurately matching patients to trials. In advance of the platform’s launch, TrialScope is accepting partner applications from sponsors, healthcare data companies and patient advocacy groups.

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Rho Announces Fifth Year as Smile Train Triathlon Title Sponsor The RTP-based Contract Research Organization will continue to show its support at the charity’s 13th annual event in Wake Forest Research Triangle Park, NC ̶ February 17, 2020 ̶ Rho, an RTP-based full-service contract research organization (CRO) focused on bringing new products to market through a complete range of product development services, today announced it is the 2020 Title Sponsor of the 13th annual Smile Train Triathlon, taking place Sunday, June 28 in Wake Forest, North Carolina. This is the fifth year in a row that Rho will be the title sponsor for the event.

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International Drug Development Institute (IDDI), a leading therapy-focused Biostatistics and eClinical Services corporation based in Belgium with offices in Boston (MA) and Raleigh (NC) announces that it is hosting a symposium to drive the debate: Are Randomized Clinical Trials Obsolete? Organized with support from the University of Louvain (UCLouvain) and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) the symposium will take place at the Auditorium Museum of Fine Arts and Magritte Museum, Brussels, Belgium, on Wednesday, April 22, 2020.