Litmus Health today released a new version of its end-to-end real-world data platform for clinical research – as the industry increasingly adopts wearable technology to monitor patients in their homes, says CMO.
Veristat launches clinical trial, biostatistics, and programming operations in Taipei, Taiwan in response to increasing client demand for regulatory submission support for both local and North American-based sponsors.
Freenome is working with a CRO as part of a clinical trial evaluating the company’s multi-omics blood testing platform – which the CEO says helps de-risk drug development by characterizing likely responders to therapy, among other use cases.
Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science opens its incubator, Helix 51, creating wet lab and research space for the Illinois bioscience hub.
Theralase taps an undisclosed trial management organization for the site selection of its multi-country bladder cancer study which aims to enroll 100 patients across 20 sites.
Insilico Medicine develops a semi-automated contracting system to ease the collaboration process between AI companies and industry partners in the discovery space.
Dassault Systèmes’ Living Heart Project is moving forward with an in silico clinical trial underway and plans to evaluate the use of virtual patients – as the French software company hopes to reduce costs, timelines, and improve quality across the industry,...
MIT has developed an ‘invisible’ device that provides several benefits over traditional patient data collection methods, including improved biomarker development and the ability to detect changes in behavior – by monitoring patients wirelessly, and through...
Parexel’s consulting subsidiary Health Advances opens in Hong Kong to provide business strategy as well as scientific and clinical expertise to customers in the region.
Syapse today announces a strategic collaboration with Pfizer through which it will generate insights from de-identified real-world data and advance oncology outcomes research.
Meridian Clinical Research acquires Regional Clinical Research in a deal that will see its North American footprint expand to more than 20 investigative clinical trial sites.
An Executive Order signed by President Trump aims to increase research, incentives, and treatment access for kidney disease patients and could 'fundamentally transform kidney therapeutics,' says president of the American Society of Nephrology....
The Pistoia Alliance launches a project to steer the implementation of principles for data management and stewardship, which it said are required as the industry undertakes a digital transformation.
Novo Nordisk and Roche/Genentech top this year’s Good Pharma Scorecard, which was, established to provide rankings of pharmaceutical companies’ clinical trial transparency and data sharing practices.
Atlantic Research Group implements Greenphire’s ClinCard and ConneX reimbursement solutions in an aim to ease the clinical trial experience for both sites and patients.
Regulatory actions by the FDA have enabled rare disease drug development to become a compelling space with orphan drug designations and approvals trending upward, says life sciences industry attorney.
More than half of new drug approvals last year were for rare diseases – which face long cycle times and other operational challenges that are necessitating the rapid adoption of new solutions, per a recent Tufts report.
Scientific advances and regulatory incentives are driving the use of genetics in drug development, though the industry’s ability to perform wide-scale testing has outpaced its understanding of the results, the misinterpretation of which can have “disastrous”...
Natural history studies are essential for rare disease research and can potentially replace placebo arms in clinical trials, among several other benefits, says industry expert.
PPD’s patient enrollment business expands access to cancer patients treated in the community setting as part of a new collaboration with a hospital and outpatient center network.
Eversana adopts Cryoport’s full suite of logistics services, in an alliance expected to ‘drive synergistic growth’ for both companies and answer regenerative medicine demands.
CMIC Group is the first Japanese CRO to join the Align Clinical group and expects to improve execution of clinical trials and collaboration with life sciences companies as the industry grows globally.
Recursion Pharmaceuticals plans to partner with big pharma on rare disease programs after raising $121m to build out its machine learning-enabled platform, which draws on an in-house developed dataset to support drug discovery and development.
Longboat Clinical’s new offering connects potential clinical trial participants with enrolling study sites and provides insights into online patient recruitment campaigns in real-time.
DSP Clinical provides flexible monitoring support to sponsors and CROs through a new co-monitoring service that takes advantage of fluctuations in employee demand.
Elligo expands its Research Ready network and adds its first oncology practice through a partnership with Austin Cancer Center, which is currently enrolling patients for breast cancer studies.
Saama and Tufts are teaming up to examine how sponsors and CROs are using automation and information technology in an aim to identify new solutions and optimize drug development.
Pharma and regulators are using machine learning to accelerate various pharmacovigilance activities – as the number of adverse event reports increases 10-12% each year, says Eli Lilly advisor.
AG Mednet provides imaging services to Median Technologies in support of the company's portfolio of clinical trials, including "large programs" in China.
PPD’s patient access business unit AES will support clinical trial enrollment of participants in the Synexus HealthyMinds Registry, which aims to register 30,000 adults for a five-year study.
Fresenius Medical Care integrates Frenova Renal Research into its global office in an aim to extend clinical research activities and reach more than 550 researchers.
The Phase I clinical trial is slated for early 2020 and will be first CAR-T cell therapy clinical trial to use Horizon Discovery’s technology, according to the company.
Boehringer Ingelheim, Sanofi, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Evotec are among the top companies with “AI-friendly” CEOs, according to a report, which suggests that these businesses will prosper driven by a more effective application of AI.
Improving the prognostic value of early phase data is among one of several ways to increase the probability of successes in drug development, a process which has become more expensive as failure rates have risen, says an industry expert.
Newly-minted Signant Health named a new CTO, Parexel bolstered its Japan presence, and BioAgilytix’s CEO was appointed to the board of FSD Pharma – a company developing products based on cannabinoids – among other people on the move in June.
Innovative Trials will work with an undisclosed global pharmaceutical company to speed up patient recruitment for clinical trials using its proactive site optimization service.
Belong.Life raises $14m as part of a Series B funding round with plans to expand its patient engagement platform, using and complementing Iqvia’s solutions “to transform patient engagement,” says Iqvia VP.
Panelist during the opening session of the DIA Annual Meeting last week stressed the need to work collaboratively, bringing patients into the fold as co-creators of clinical trials to ‘create a whole new landscape for research.’
MMS Holdings launched its cloud-based quality control application, Automatiqc, to meet quality control needs rapidly through its customizable software, according to the CRO.
Sponsors to benefit from more accurate, shorter, and less costly trials through Shimmer Research and ClearSky Medical Diagnostics partnerships, says company executive.
Navitas Life Sciences taps ThoughtSphere to power its digital and clinical analytics cloud-based clinical data SaaS OneClinical, as the company continues to grow after Kai Research acquisition.
Many sponsors think physicians are unwilling to refer their patients to clinical trials, though the majority have, per a recent BBK survey, which suggest that more patients could be enrolled in studies if doctors had more information about protocols.
