BioSpace

JANUARY 28, 2021

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared an Investigational New Drug application that will allow Boston-based Vertex Pharmaceuticals to proceed with a clinical trial of its investigational stem cell-derived, fully differentiated pancreatic islet cell treatment for type 1 diabetes (.

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STAT News

MARCH 29, 2023

Lupus is a disease long-plagued by failed clinical trials. And hopeful patients, many of them young women of color, are waiting — just three lupus drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in six decades. A key partnership is looking to change that.  

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STAT News

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Pfizer and partner Valneva are scrapping data from roughly half of the participants in a Phase 3 trial of a Lyme disease vaccine candidate after uncovering quality issues with a third-party clinical trial operator.

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Scienmag

JANUARY 19, 2022

New research suggests manufacturers of newly developed antidepressant drugs have become more forthcoming about clinical trials that don’t pan out.

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STAT News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

And a fragmented clinical trials industry has made it a prime target for private equity, which often consolidates markets by merging companies. To date, 11 of the 25 private equity firms identified by industry tracker PitchBook as the top investors in health care have bought stakes in clinical research companies.

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Outsourcing Pharma

APRIL 6, 2023

TWO US clinical investigator sites have been opened for a phase 1 clinical trial for patients with soft tissue sarcoma and the first patient has been dosed.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 7, 2021

Proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards the phase 1/2a clinical trial the company began in February this year of the lead candidate codenamed SPL026. The goal of the trial is for proof of concept of the drug as a wrap-around therapy for Major Depressive Disorder.

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Worldwide Clinical Trials

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In April 2022, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued draft guidance on developing a “Race and Ethnicity Diversity Plan” for clinical trials. Ansel said he’s seen an increase in the number of sponsors coming to Worldwide Clinical Trials for exactly that purpose. And it takes time to get right.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 18, 2021

The need for diversity in clinical trial populations has been a topic of discussion across regulators and the industry in general for decades. The post A collaborative approach to greater diversity in clinical trials appeared first on.

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Scienmag

DECEMBER 20, 2021

A clinical trial in which two test drugs failed to help patients with mild COVID-19 nevertheless had a silver lining: It proved the viability of a study model in which a medication’s potential arrhythmic side effects are safely, effectively monitored without the participants ever setting foot in a hospital or clinic.

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pharmaphorum

JANUARY 19, 2021

A survey by rare disease patient network Raremark found that 86% of the community members asked were interested in taking part in clinical trials. CEO Jeremy Edwards looks at how decentralised trial models can solve some of the challenges for clinical trial recruitment in rare disease.

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ACRP blog

JUNE 22, 2022

“Thanks to clinical trials and the grace of God, I’m alive today,” says Rhonda Long, who has battled a rare bile duct cancer for years. “A The next step was a clinical trial,” Long says, and was lucky when her oncologist found where she was eligible. “It I could continue my drug trial and treatment,” he says.

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STAT News

MARCH 27, 2023

The agency proposed that companies conduct randomized controlled trials in which patients receive either a therapy or another alternate treatment instead of trials that test the drug without a comparator, known as single-arm studies. Continue to STAT+ to read the full story…

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Pharmaceutical Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Unlike commercial pharmaceutical packaging, the primary consideration in clinical trial packaging is protecting the product quality and reliability for research. Finding the best clinical trial packaging services providers. Clinical trial packaging and labelling solutions.

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XTalks

AUGUST 4, 2022

Cardiovascular clinical trials need to have a diversity plan because there can be a difference in disease burden when comparing people of different race and ethnicity. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is emphasizing the need for diversity in clinical trials. The Diversity of the US Population.

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pharmaphorum

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Lack of access, strict regulations, and demanding schedules have made it extremely difficult for patients to participate in clinical trials. A 2018 NIH survey found that patients felt clinical trial participation to be inconvenient and burdensome, and nearly half (49.0%) said it disrupted their daily routine.

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XTalks

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

There has been increasing awareness around the need for improving inclusion and diversity in clinical trials. As such, there has been a growing emphasis on efforts to achieve better and more accurate representations of minority and underrepresented populations like Black people in clinical studies.

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Placebo Control

AUGUST 7, 2013

With the activation of our Comparator Network the participating TransCelerate companies will be able to source these comparator drugs directly from each other, be able to secure supply when they need it in the quantities they need, have access to drug data and totally mitigate the risk of counterfeit drugs in that clinical trial."

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Scienmag

JUNE 15, 2022

A novel staging framework that assesses the progression of Huntington’s disease (HD), similar to the way cancer is staged 0 to 4, has been developed by UCL scientists as part of an international consortium; this ‘significant’ step paves the way for clinical trials of drugs in the earliest phase of disease.

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pharmaphorum

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

As people have become more conscious and vocal about diversity and inclusion, Page & Page’s Lisa Lishman says pharma should reassess how it conducts clinical trials. The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important industries in the world, providing lifesaving drugs and treatment to people who need it the most.

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pharmaphorum

MAY 14, 2021

Kintor posted a press release at the end of April to announce that phase 3 clinical development had begun and since then it has seen its share price rise considerably on the Hong Kong stock exchange. But Reuters reported that the doctor identified as its principal clinical trial investigator has said he is not in charge of the trial.

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 6, 2020

The post Lundbeck gets cold feet, axes schizophrenia drug trial appeared first on.

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STAT News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

… The results of a key Alzheimer’s drug trial on Wednesday have reignited decades-old hopes that targeting amyloid beta helps arrest the progression of the fatal brain disease, giving a big boost to similar studies being run by Roche and Eli Lilly , Reuters explains. Meanwhile, keep in touch.

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Scienmag

JULY 18, 2021

The models allow for virtual trials of drugs and vaccines, opening the possibility of pre-assessment for drug and vaccine efficacy against the virus. Researchers are using computer models to simulate COVID-19 infections on a cellular level – the basic structural level of the human body.

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Scienmag

JULY 8, 2021

Researchers, including academics from the University of York, analysed systematic reviews of 1,200 Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) to assess whether reporting had improved over time.

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pharmaphorum

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The effect of failing to include women proportionately in clinical trials may have consequences for the quality of medical care women receive, with therapies, doses and risk assessment tools being tailored to the male population”. The impact of underrepresenting women.

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XTalks

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Diverse clinical trials are a matter of equity and essential for the validity and reliability of research outcomes. Historically, racial and ethnically minoritized groups or populations have been excluded from clinical trials, leading to a lack of data on how different demographic subgroups respond to treatments.

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VirTrial

MAY 26, 2020

Scottsdale, AZ (May 26, 2020) – VirTrial today announced a new service designed to enable virtual site monitoring visits in the clinical trials industry. VirTrial is a bioscience technology company providing a stable, long-standing telemedicine platform to transform the clinical trial industry.

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NY Times

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The panel debated whether overseas trials could be applied to a more diverse U.S. The decision may affect other Chinese drug trials, and spotlights the high cost of immunotherapy. population.

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Advarra

JUNE 27, 2023

Clinical trials are studies involving human volunteers to research ways to prevent, detect, and treat various medical conditions. The goal is to identify safer, more effective methods of treating illnesses using new drugs or new combinations of existing drugs.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

On April 28, FDA issued its first Notice of Noncompliance for failure to submit required clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. The “responsible party” is the sponsor or principal investigator of the trial. The notice was given to Acceleron Pharma, Inc., 42 C.F.R. §§ 11.10, 11.44(a). 42 U.S.C. §

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Delveinsight

AUGUST 12, 2021

Visus will utilize the cash to move immediately into pivotal phase 3 studies upon delivering positive data from an ongoing phase 2 clinical trial of Brimochol in presbyopia , the medical name for the inability to focus on nearby objects that affect people aged 40 years and up. Sage Partner and existing backers also participated.

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ACRP blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

From 2018 to 2020, the number of active clinical investigators (including those conducting medical device studies) was 45,554, with 83% of them having worked on pharmaceutical clinical trials. Most investigators during the three-year period we examined most closely have little clinical trial experience,” Glass explained.

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XTalks

APRIL 26, 2021

Given the success of Oxford’s Phase II trial, the study investigators are now gearing up for a Phase III licensure trial to assess large-scale safety and efficacy in 4,800 children aged 5 to 36 months across four countries in Africa. Developing an efficacious vaccine against malaria has been a huge challenge.

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Advarra

AUGUST 16, 2022

Orphan drugs have historically faced a number of barriers, such as limited research and development (R&D) investment due to an expected lack of profitability as well as challenges in clinical trial design and recruitment. Before 1983, only 38 orphan drugs had received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval.

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FDA Law Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Butler — On April 28, FDA issued its first Notice of Noncompliance for failure to submit required clinical trial results information to ClinicalTrials.gov. The “responsible party” is the sponsor or principal investigator of the trial. The notice was given to Acceleron Pharma, Inc., 42 C.F.R. §§ 11.10, 11.44(a). 42 U.S.C. §

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pharmaphorum

AUGUST 25, 2022

At the Fatty Liver Foundation, we are formally opposed to that being the standard of care and we are working to make a difference by raising awareness, by advocating for simplification in clinical trial protocols to encourage more patient participation, and by setting up screenings for those at high-risk.

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