PPD

AUGUST 16, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic rapidly accelerated the adoption of hybrid and decentralized clinical trial (DCT) models. At the end of 2022, the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific surveyed key leadership and staff on the frontline of clinical trial execution across the industry.

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PPD

MARCH 11, 2025

Breaking through research barriers Challenge #1: Small groups of patients Rare diseases impact a small number of individuals, making it difficult to recruit enough participants for clinical trials. Moreover, in some rare disease trials, it is unethical to design a control group of patients with a placebo.

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PPD

AUGUST 14, 2024

Clinical trials have significantly increased in complexity over the last 20 years, creating new challenges. Patients are eager to participate in trials but remain largely unaware of their availability despite growing efforts to recruit. The increase in complexity isn’t just creating challenges for patients.

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PPD

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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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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PPD

OCTOBER 8, 2024

With FSO, all clinical trial tasks (e.g., study startup, data management, clinical monitoring, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs, etc.) are outsourced to a contract research organization (CRO) partner. clinical operations, pharmacovigilance, etc.) Augment your existing services with PPD FSP solutions.

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LifeSciVC

JULY 17, 2024

Identifying the right targets, de-risking those targets, and then executing trials requires significant capital, strategic focus, and time. And many that have solid preclinical and even clinical data are left on the shelf due to portfolio prioritization processes or because the therapeutic area is no longer core to that company’s strategy.

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PPD

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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Vial

MAY 20, 2024

Distinguishing the Roles of Preclinical vs. Clinical CROs in Clinical Research Randomized clinical trials are the gold-standard of evidence-based medicine, representing the culmination of the long, arduous drug development pipeline. What is a Pre-Clinical CRO? billion in 2022 and is projected to reach US$10.2

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

AUGUST 23, 2023

Patients are the backbone of clinical trials, playing an essential role in the drug development process. This engagement is often less understood and is underutilized by sponsors, meaning a significant element of the trial and drug experience is missed during sponsor engagement with the FDA.

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Advarra

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In the clinical research space, GxP is a set of quality regulations and guidelines designed to establish the safety, efficacy, and integrity of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and clinical trials. This blog explores key concepts, regulations, and the importance of GxP in delivering successful clinical trials.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Fortunately, advances in clinical research are providing hope for better treatments and outcomes. With the support of global networks like ours at Worldwide Clinical Trials (Worldwide), autoimmune and bone health research is accelerating, providing new solutions to patients around the world.

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Olympian Clinical Research

OCTOBER 30, 2020

At Olympian Clinical Research we’ve gotten a chance to work with countless Schizophrenia patients over the years through our clinical trials, and we know just how untrue many of the common assumptions about Schizophrenia really are. . Myth #2: People with Schizophrenia are violent. Learn More.

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PPD

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The enterprise of delivering life-changing medicines to patients involves a complex ecosystem, and in many ways, three key players reside at the core: drug sponsors, the contract research organizations (CROs) that support them and the clinical research sites directly engaging with patients in the trial.

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PPD

OCTOBER 17, 2024

There has also been an increase in government and regulatory support for CGT trials, in conjunction with an increase in investments for these products to get to market. To find success among the competition, sponsors must have access to the necessary expertise and resources to approach this burgeoning market.

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Olympian Clinical Research

MARCH 3, 2020

There’s no doubt that research volunteers play a significant role in getting these vital solutions out on the market for the people in need. Sometimes people are afraid to enroll in a clinical trial out of fear, confusion, or misinformation. What is a clinical trial? You Can Get Paid For Your Contribution.

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PPD

AUGUST 28, 2024

For pharmaceutical innovators and drug developers working to bring oncology therapies to market, patients are the “why” behind it all. For many patients, involvement in oncology clinical trials represents a last hope for an effective therapy. Researchers often employ cell therapy studies for oncology indications, and the U.S.

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PPD

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a recent panel discussion at DIA Global , our experts explored how these elements are reshaping clinical research and drug discovery. This can be converted to a clinical trial simulator, which can model a clinical trial before the trial design is finalized and initiated.

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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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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

JULY 9, 2024

These strategies are critical for enhancing the overall success of GLP-1 therapies in clinical practice. GLP-1 Drug Class: Market Overview The market for GLP-1 medications is expanding, with several establishing options and numerous promising therapies on the horizon.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In preparation for World Orphan Drug Congress Europe, we interviewed Nathan Chadwick, Senior Director, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease, and Derek Ansel, MS, LCGC, Vice President, Therapeutic Strategy Lead, Rare Disease, to hear their insights into the current progress in rare disease research and their hopes for 2025.

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Antidote

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A common problem in the clinical trial industry is finding enough interested individuals to take part in a study. However, keeping patients at the center of clinical trial marketing is one of the most effective ways to address this issue.

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Vial

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Contract research organizations (CROs) are an integral partner of the drug development process, as they play a pivotal role supporting clinical trial conduct for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device sponsor companies. That is, how many clinical trials are actually managed by these organizations?

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PPD

DECEMBER 19, 2022

PPD, Thermo Fisher Scientific ’s clinical research business, surveyed more than 150 decision-making leaders at pharmaceutical and biotech companies around the globe to collect key insights on the state of the evolving drug development industry. The opportunity to leverage new technologies in drug development (e.g.,

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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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PPD

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Approaches to outsourcing clinical trials have changed significantly in recent years. Mixing of service models — a strategy that drug developers are leveraging now more than ever — can bring life-changing therapies to market faster. Growth of the FSP market is steadily increasing.

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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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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Amidst a shifting clinical landscape characterized by increasingly complex trial designs and growing patient subpopulations, many contract research organizations (CROs) have adopted a “one-stop-shop” strategic approach. Moreover, these delays impact getting potentially lifesaving therapies to patients in need.

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Advarra

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Clinical trial site selection can make or break a trial’s success before it even begins. When you consider around 11% of sites 2 fail to even accrue one participant on a given study, cost savings become a major consideration when evaluating which sites to partner with for a trial.

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Vial

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

To advance new therapies, pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device companies engage contract research organizations (CROs) for their know-how in navigating the complex landscape of drug development and regulatory pathways and to run clinical trials.

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Conversations in Drug Development Trends

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With the necessary prioritization of various factors when designing your clinical trial, the patient experience can be overlooked or improperly addressed in study design. But how can the patient experience be leveraged to drive your trial’s success? And, frankly, none of them are wrong.

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PPD

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

As the clinical trial landscape evolves, drug developers are faced with novel challenges and changes in study recruitment, trial size and structure, and more. Decentralized Trials Digital and decentralized clinical trials  (DCTs) continue to expand and have become a standard solution for drug developers.

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Olympian Clinical Research

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Finding the right medication can be a frustrating process, though, since there’s no “one-size-treats-all” medication for depression on the market. We just started a clinical trial to explore a new treatment option for patients who suffer from moderate to severe depression. We’re on a mission to help those patients! .

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Advarra

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The clinical trial startup process has seen significant shifts over the past five years: growth in decentralized trials, improved technology, and an increased demand for accelerated timelines in getting therapies to market. Each of these have contributed to a rapidly evolving clinical research landscape.

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Vial

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Medical devices have seen a significant increase in market demand for the past few years. Clinical trials are needed to determine whether a medical device can produce sufficient proof of its efficacy. This is where contract research organizations (CROs) come into play.

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Vial

MAY 13, 2024

However, progress from molecule to approved drug is hampered by extremely high costs and lengthy clinical trials , and approximately 90% of drugs that reach clinical trials fail. only 5% of molecules in oncology Phase I trials reach the market taking, on average, 7.5 According to Rodríguez-Molinero et al.,

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