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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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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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Latest DDW Podcast: Transforming clinical trials

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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Now is the time for the transformation of clinical trials”. It covers two narrated articles written for Volume 22, Issue 4 – Fall 2021 of DDW. They are called “Clinical trials, the pandemic and technology” and “Pharma and the benefits of Real World Data ”. . Listen below: .

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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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Cambridge Cognition set to become key player in virtual clinical trials 

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Cambridge Cognition has entered into an agreement to acquire eClinicalHealth Ltd (eCH), a full-service digital technology provider that is working on virtual clinical trials for three of the world’s top ten largest pharmaceutical companies. . The virtual clinical trial market . billion with a projected growth of 14% per annum 1.

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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.

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Podcast: Now is the time for the transformation of clinical trials

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This is the latest episode of the free DDW podcast, “Now is the time for the transformation of clinical trials”. It covers two narrated articles written for Volume 22, Issue 4 – Fall 2021 of DDW. They are called “Clinical trials, the pandemic and technology” and “Pharma and the benefits of Real World Data ”. . Listen below: .