• New DTRA Members, Veeva Now A Public Benefit Corporation, More

    Clinical Research News | Strategic collaborations to enable more diverse trial populations, advance combinatorial intravesical immunotherapy, and engage patients in a privacy-centric way. Plus: new partnership program for CROs and an Oracle integration for Cognizant’s Shared Investigator Platform.

    Jan 28, 2021

  • Risk Management During A Pandemic: How Pfizer’s Quality Management System Fared

    Clinical Research News | Nothing quite tests a risk-based management approach like a global pandemic that few predicted. And for Pfizer’s Melissa Suprin, the COVID-19 pandemic was the first big test of the quality management system.

    Jan 26, 2021

  • Five Variants of Disease, When Patient Stratification Scores Fail, Studies for Long COVID: COVID-19 Updates

    Clinical Research News| The UK’s patient stratification score doesn’t hold up to scrutiny, Fauci and others encourage doctors to equip themselves to argue for vaccines, NIH launches a study of “Long COVID”, and more. Plus: Siemens, with German funding, sets up more COVID-19 treatment facilities for South Africa.

    Jan 22, 2021

  • Drugs Targeting Cellular Aging May Prove Useful For Numerous Conditions

    Clinical Research News | Fundamental aging processes appear to be root-cause contributors to multiple conditions, ranging from heart attacks and cancer to neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease. Now a series of clinical trials will look at whether senolytics— drugs targeting cellular aging—could affect many or perhaps all other aging mechanisms because they are interlinked.

    Jan 21, 2021