• Smarter Study Designs to Improve Pediatric Rare Disease Trials

    Clinical Research News | Efforts to improve clinical trials for children with rare diseases must focus on ensuring flexibility while capturing the best data. Florence Mowlem, chief scientific officer at uMotif, joins the most recent episode of The Scope of Things to discuss how thoughtful study design—not just advanced technology—is essential for ensuring reliable data and strong patient participation.

    Mar 12, 2026

  • Smarter Study Designs to Improve Pediatric Rare Disease Trials

    Clinical Research News | Efforts to improve clinical trials for children with rare diseases must focus on ensuring flexibility while capturing the best data. Florence Mowlem, chief scientific officer at uMotif, joins the most recent episode of The Scope of Things to discuss how thoughtful study design—not just advanced technology—is essential for ensuring reliable data and strong patient participation.

    Mar 12, 2026

  • DECODE Initiative Seeks More Meaningful Endpoints for Obesity Drugs

    Clinical Research News | As the obesity drug market accelerates, clinical trial design is coming under renewed scrutiny, with growing pressure on sponsors to demonstrate benefits that extend beyond weight loss. The Digital Endpoint Collaboration for Outcomes Development (DECODE) Obesity initiative and cross-industry consortium, led by Ametris, is looking to validate new clinical outcome measures that capture how patients function and feel while on treatment.

    Mar 10, 2026

  • Rethinking Data Delivery in Clinical Research: Building Scalable, Secure, And Site-Centric Architectures

    Clinical Research News | In the era of decentralized trials and global research networks, the way we manage and deliver clinical data is undergoing a profound transformation. Historically, sponsors relied on manual processes and physical media—USB drives, CDs—to transfer essential trial data to investigator sites at study close-out.

    Mar 6, 2026

  • Medication Adherence Pill Could Solve Dire Healthcare Problem

    Clinical Research News | The promise of AI was on full display at last week’s SCOPE event in Orlando, peppering each of hundreds of presentations focused on the future of clinical research. Analysts have projected that AI in clinical trials will represent an $8 billion business segment by 2030, generating up to $110 billion per year in value to pharma, but that will not happen unless the workflows are redesigned.

    Mar 3, 2026

  • Medication Adherence Pill Could Solve Dire Healthcare Problem

    Clinical Research News | Medication nonadherence is a major, longstanding problem in healthcare, with the World Health Organization estimating 50% of patients with chronic diseases are not taking their drugs as prescribed. But MIT engineers are working to solve the problem with an ingestible and bioresorbable RFID-based sensor system, dubbed SAFARI, designed to safely and accurately monitor medication ingestion.

    Mar 3, 2026