Conversations in Drug Development Trends

MAY 1, 2024

For clinical research professionals, this journey often involves reconciling differing feedback from regulatory agencies, each with unique standards, priorities, and expectations. Your CRO can also play a crucial role in helping you to understand existing precedents and how they apply to your study and overall development journey.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

From adapting to complex new trial designs to embracing cutting-edge technologies, staying ahead requires a deep understanding of the current landscape. Drug development The rising cost of clinical trials is the top challenge this year, due to increasingly complex protocol designs and difficult patient recruitment.

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JUNE 7, 2023

By partnering with a contract research organization (CRO) that understands the challenges of liver disease clinical trials — and the complexities of working with pediatric populations — you can drive your treatment forward. Partnership with an experienced CRO is essential to your trial’s success.

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AUGUST 5, 2024

Composite endpoints might include factors such as hospitalization, transplantation and worsening of clinical outcomes. Their early definition — as well as plans for recording and tracking — is a major factor in a trial’s success.

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PPD

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the past, these developers mostly used in-house resources for their clinical monitoring and site management capabilities, whereas today they often prefer functional service provider (FSP) or full-service outsourcing (FSO) models, or a hybrid of the two, to ensure on-time and on-budget delivery of clinical operations.

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Drug Target Review

APRIL 7, 2025

A surrogate endpoint is a marker used in clinical trials as a substitute for a direct clinical outcome. Diagnostic biomarkers typically confirm or establish a diagnosis and are often used in selecting patient populations for clinical trials.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

“Patient-centric” is used frequently to describe today’s clinical trial and health care landscape. The industry applauds that point of view and strives to include a patient-centric approach in all aspects of clinical trial designs. Patient centricity has become more than a key consideration.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

The drug development industry faces rising costs and increasingly complex protocols as top challenges, with 49% of developers citing costs as their primary concern and 39% pointing to protocol complexity as a key hurdle, according to a recent survey of 150 drug developers worldwide by the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

JANUARY 24, 2024

Written By: Derek Ansel, MS, CCRA, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease Given that 80% of rare diseases have a genetic etiology, genetic implications should be addressed at the onset of a clinical program to support trial enrollment. One diagnostic example that I discussed in my presentation is autism.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Acceleration in every step of clinical research is critical to pharmaceutical developers. Yet, today’s clinical research sponsors face significant challenges. Rather than accepting the persistent delays in clinical research as disruptive, yet unavoidable, we believe they underscore the need for greater efficiency.

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Vial

MARCH 6, 2024

The field of clinical research is a dynamic and rapidly evolving one. One way to ensure that you are at the forefront of these developments is by attending clinical research conferences. AACR, founded in 1907, is the world’s oldest and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

AUGUST 9, 2024

Authors: Matt Cooper, PhD, Executive Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Oncology; Megan Morrison, Vice President, Asia Pacific Strategy Lead Adaptive trial designs have become essential in oncology, offering a flexible and efficient approach for conducting clinical trials.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Clinical research is an integral component of the healthcare ecosystem. The success of clinical research hinges crucially on patient participation; however, attracting and retaining participants can often pose significant challenges. Patient Payments in Clinical Research: Perception Over the Years In the U.S.,

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PPD

JUNE 17, 2025

In the past decade alone, the time needed to complete a clinical trial has increased by 20–30%, and the cost to bring a new drug to market has risen to an average of about $2.6 Biopharmaceutical and biotech drug developers have faced increasing challenges in recent years.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

APRIL 3, 2024

Are you aware of the challenges you must address for a successful radiopharmaceutical trial? Enhancing Patient Participation in Radiopharmaceutical Trials Patient recruitment is a critical yet challenging part of radiopharmaceutical trials.

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Advarra

JULY 3, 2025

10 areas that may impact your organization The third revision (R3) of the ICH E6 Guideline for Good Clinical Practice represents a significant modernization of global clinical research standards. Quality by Design (QBD): Are your trials fundamentally incorporating QBD concepts in development?

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H1 Blog

APRIL 2, 2025

Leveraging Data for More Inclusive Research Clinical trial representation is more than just a regulatory requirementits a critical component of accessible healthcare. Ensuring that trial participants reflect the real-world patient population leads to more effective treatments and better health outcomes.

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Vial

JUNE 12, 2024

Utilizing PROs enables the active participation of patients in their care outcomes – both in a clinical setting and in clinical research. PROs in clinical trials are important as they capture the patient’s perspective and ensure that the impact of an intervention is comprehensively evaluated.

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Olympian Clinical Research

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Eating a well balanced diet, full of fruits and vegetables, floods your body with antioxidants that then decrease the internal inflammation contributing to and/or caused by depression. . We just started a clinical trial to explore a new treatment option for patients who suffer from moderate to severe depression.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Approaches to outsourcing clinical trials have changed significantly in recent years. It’s important to understand the differences between FSO and FSP solution models for outsourcing clinical trials and how best to combine approaches for optimization.

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Advarra

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Managing clinical trial budgets efficiently is necessary for the success and sustainability of clinical research sites. Effective budget management not only ensures trials are financially viable but also maximizes return on investment (ROI). the impact and value of the data produced).

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Vial

JUNE 18, 2024

The success of clinical trials hinges on increasing access to participation by all eligible patients, including populations that have been underrepresented due to the barriers highlighted below. Specifically, U.S. Patients underlined the need for transparency by pharma and other related companies to build trust and partnership.

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Advarra

MARCH 14, 2023

AMCs and Health Systems Integrating a clinical trial management system (CTMS) enables the regulatory team to pull protocol details and place them into eReg. Review sessions: Enable organizations to grant limited eReg access to both internal and external monitors in order to more easily review documents.

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Vial

MARCH 25, 2024

Introduction Worldwide Clinical Trials vs. Vial. Worldwide Clinical Trials is a mid-size, full-service global contract research organization (CRO) that works with biotech and pharma to advance new medications. With an international presence in nearly 60 countries, Worldwide is supported by over 3,400 team members.

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MARCH 26, 2024

The PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific conducts an annual survey of more than 150 leaders at pharmaceutical companies around the globe to assess trends in drug discovery and development, including preferences around outsourcing and functional service provider (FSP) utilization.

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Advarra

JUNE 20, 2023

Typical clinical development timelines for anticancer drugs average an estimated 6.7 Oncology research is unique in many ways, including the challenges researchers face. Innovation Organizations conducting oncology clinical trials face challenges distinct from the rest of the research community.

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MARCH 13, 2024

In every early phase clinical trial, the transportation, chain of custody, environmental monitoring and subsequent analysis of biological samples are the cornerstones of a successful, robust and quality outcome. Within cell therapy clinical trials, apheresis collections contribute to the specific constituents of the given therapy.

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Alta Sciences

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Four Pain Models Altasciences Uses to Assess Treatments During Clinical Trials pmjackson Wed, 09/13/2023 - 17:01 September is pain awareness month, and the importance of pain management and continued research into effective analgesics is integral to helping patients suffering from various pain conditions.

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thought leadership

JULY 20, 2023

Good clinical practice ( GCP ) is an international ethical analysis and scientific quality standard for designing, conducting, and auditing clinical trials that involve the participation of human subjects. This article has been updated since it's original publication date.

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Advarra

JUNE 16, 2022

Study startup is a complicated, multi-faceted, and time-consuming component of the clinical research lifecycle, one notoriously prone to delays. The key challenge of successful, timely study startup requires careful coordination across multiple constituencies within and external to a research organization. Key Stakeholders .

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The Pharma Data

MARCH 15, 2021

Clinical research is a key component of developing. A critical component of our medicinal product development is clinical research. This involves conducting clinical trials in humans to evaluate the safety and efficacy of new pharmaceutical products. We are committed to Good Clinical Practice.

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Advarra

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The International Council for Harmonisation (ICH) good clinical practice (GCP) guidelines are critical in ensuring the safety and rights of clinical trial participants. The first guidelines published in 1996 and known as ICH GCP E6 provided guidance on the design, conduct, and reporting of clinical trials.

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Advarra

MAY 14, 2025

With a decade of experience as regulatory counsel in the FDAs Center for Drug Evaluation and Research Office of Scientific Investigations, her experience will help Advarras clients and internal teams navigate the ever-shifting regulatory landscape for human subjects research.

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APRIL 30, 2024

31, 2022, the EU Clinical Trial Regulation (EU CTR) 536/2014 became applicable, heralding a new era for clinical trials in the European Union (EU). In addition, the constant evolution of EMA and Clinical Trials Coordination Group (CTCG) guidelines requires constant attention.

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Precision for Medicine

JANUARY 23, 2023

QuartzBio’s suite of end-to-end SaaS solutions provides pharmaceutical and biotech clients with a fully connected data ecosystem linking sample, biomarker, and clinical data to improve collaboration, planning and R&D productivity. This convergence of trials, labs and data sciences is driving faster clinical development and approval.

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Advarra

JUNE 14, 2024

A regulatory binder is essential for managing clinical trial documents, ensuring regulatory compliance, and facilitating audits. It organizes critical documents; provides easy access for trial monitors, auditors, and regulatory authorities; and serves as a reference for the research team.

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The Pharma Data

JUNE 26, 2021

Together with our research partners, BIG conducts landmark, practice-changing trials that can have a significant impact on the lives of women with breast cancer,” sa id David Cameron , Chair of the BIG Executive Board. Adjuvant therapy helps prevent and delay the progression of disease into the later setting.

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