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AI and machine learning: A new era for clinical trials

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Fiona Maini , Senior Director Global Compliance & Strategy, at Medidata looks at the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) within life sciences and the applications for the technology in clinical trials.

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Which diseases are poised to benefit from therapeutic antibody development

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DDW’s Megan Thomas looks at how different diseases will benefit from the success of therapeutic antibodies. billion in 2021, and is projected to reach $106.8 Earlier in 2023, a mAb to prevent Covid-19 in vulnerable patients, AZD3152, entered clinical trials less than 12 months after its discovery.

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Nanoparticle universal flu vaccine enters Phase I trials

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Enrolment in a Phase I trial of a new investigational universal influenza vaccine candidate has begun at the National Institutes of Health’s Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, US. With each new universal influenza vaccine candidate and clinical trial, we take another step closer to that goal,” said Acting NIAID Director Hugh Auchincloss.

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Research organisations partner to transform clinical trials

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The Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) and Protas, led by Oxford University clinical trialist Professor Sir Martin Landray, will collaborate to develop new approaches to large randomised clinical trials. Landray said: “This important collaboration with DCRI will seek to transform the way trials are designed and delivered globally.

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Breast cancer still top disease area for clinical studies

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Breast cancer retained its position as the most-studied disease area in clinical trials in 2022, despite a drop in activity, according to analysis from analytics company Phesi. However, the reduction in breast cancer trials is unexpected, with 113 fewer recruiting trials in 2022 compared with 2021.

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Antibody treatment for geographic atrophy enters clinical trials

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Boehringer Ingelheim and CDR-Life entered a licensing agreement in May 2020 and announced the selection of an antibody fragment-based therapeutic candidate in September 2021. GA is an irreversible retinal disease that occurs in people with late-stage dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD).

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Fortifying vaccines through disease surveillance and data reporting  

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Shelley McLendon , SVP of Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Program Management at ICON, attended the World Vaccine Congress Europe from 16-19 October 2022 in Barcelona, Spain. Disease surveillance and reporting . Disease surveillance is the collection and monitoring of data on disease within a population.

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