Medable, a Silicon Valley-based mobile app vendor seeking to decentralize clinical trials and reduce clinical trial timelines by 50%, has raised $25 million in funding to take their startup to the next level. The company seeks to help the drug development sector...
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University of Manitoba Initiates ‘Siteless’ Trial Investigating Efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine for COVID-19
The University of Manitoba in Canada is the participating in its first clinical trial to test whether the malaria drug called hydroxychloroquine can prevent people from contracting COVID-19. Led by the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences, it commenced recently and the...
Intermountain Healthcare Investigators Utilize Wearable Technologies
Intermountain Healthcare researchers are utilizing wearable technology in the form of wrist-worn step trackers to determine how far patients with the pulmonary disease can walk within six minutes. Long considered an effective clinical tool augmenting physician...
Patent-Centricity Moves as ICON Acquires In-Home Study Service Specialist Symphony Clinical Research
ICON plc, a global provider of drug and device development and commercialization services acquired Symphony Clinical Research, a leading provider of at-home patient and site support services. The deal expands and extends ICON’s patient, site and data strategy and...
Remote Clinical Trials in Europe: [email protected] Receives $44m for 5-Year Study Centering on Remote Trials
In a 5-year, $44 million dollar major European project to bring clinical trials to the home, the [email protected] consortium explore the opportunities of moving studies from the clinic to the home in the form of Remote Decentralized Clinical Trials (RDCTs). The goal: make...
Wearable Tech for Clinical Trials: Sensors Get more Sophisticated and Smaller
Various wearable technologies—from mobile devices to advanced sensors—become more sophisticated, faster, and smaller, paving the way for the next innovation wave. In this article, we summarize an example of some of the latest advances, such as those from Maxim...
Virtual Clinical Trials: Science 37 Started a Movement
Recently Biospace’s Mark Terry interviewed Science 37’s Chief Medical Officer Jonathan Cotliar to shine some light on the topic of virtual clinical trials. The vast majority of today’s clinical research is conducted at research sites—whether they be academic medical...
CRO Parexel Applies Its Patient Centric Protocol Optimization Process in China
Patient-centric clinical trials, those that are designed and executed with the patient perspective in mind, can accelerate enrollment and increase the probability of success. Patient-centered trials have not been widely adopted because it represents a fundamental...