• Grove AI Named the 2025 Participant Engagement Award Winner

    Clinical Research News | In a contest focused on the finalist themes of AI (artificial intelligence), DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion), and community engagement, a winner was chosen to be the 9th Annual Participant Engagement Award during opening ceremonies yesterday at the Summit for Clinical Ops Executives in Orlando. This year’s top honor went to Grove AI for personalizing participant recruitment and engagement at scale using a smart bot named Grace acting as a clinical research assistant.

    Feb 4, 2025

  • Breakthrough Cancer Therapy Bolstered by Ingredient Found in Glue

    Clinical Research News | Researchers in Japan have made significant strides in boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT), a specialized cancer treatment, by incorporating polyvinyl alcohol (PVA)—the primary component of children’s glue—into a boron-based drug. This innovation could significantly enhance the tumor-targeting capabilities of BNCT, a technique that uses neutron irradiation to destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy tissue.

    Jan 30, 2025

  • Best of Show Finalists at SCOPE 2025

    Clinical Research News | The Best of Show People’s Choice Award Finalists are now announced for next week’s 2025 Summit for Clinical Ops Executives (SCOPE). With a record number of finalists, this promises to be the most competitive year yet for clinical new products.

    Jan 31, 2025

  • Proceed With Caution When Decentralizing Oncology Trials

    Clinical Research News | Patients with cancer typically have a strong emotional connection with their doctors and nurses that is an important part of their healing process. It follows that those taking an investigational therapy should be offered decentralized clinical trial (DCT) components that serve to enhance that bond rather than do away with it, according to Peter O’Neill, vice president of clinical operations at TuHURA Biosciences, Inc.

    Jan 30, 2025

  • Follow the Money: Clinical Platforms, Ophthalmology, New Trials

    Clinical Research News | New funding this month includes cash for “the anti-CRO” eClinical platform, novel obesity drugs, ophthalmology, and more.

    Jan 29, 2025

  • Community Partners Look at Trial Design, New 23andMe Research Offering, More

    Clinical Research News | A new UTHealth Houston project plans to engage community partners to improve the design of clinical trials; Advarra releases a Study Collaboration solution; 23andMe launches new clinical research product; more.

    Jan 28, 2025

  • Set For Success: Avoiding The Pitfalls Of Clinical Data Conformity In Medical Device Trials

    Clinical Research News | The Medical Devices Regulation 2017/745 and the In Vitro Diagnostic Regulation 2017/746 have greatly enhanced the requirements related to the performance, conduct, monitoring, recording and reporting of medical device clinical investigations in the European Union (EU). This tightening of clinical requirements under the EU Regulations has been cited as a key issue in the claims that medical devices are disappearing from use within the EU.

    Jan 24, 2025

  • AI-Powered Study Startup Platform Latest Addition to Pi Health Arsenal

    Clinical Research News | A spinoff of global biotech company BeiGene is looking to transform the clinical development of oncology medicines with a software platform integrating all the features study sponsors and sites need to conduct trials and communicate with each other in a compliant way.

    Jan 23, 2025

  • Digital Measures: What’s in it for Patients?

    Clinical Research News | Like two other major advancements in the past 200 years, the stethoscope and X-ray imaging, digital health technologies (DHTs) are giving “a whole new perspective” on human health. Earlier innovations enabled doctors to hear and see inside the human body, and the addition of digital measures of health offer a view into people’s everyday lives when they’re outside the clinic setting.

    Jan 21, 2025