While many clinical trial professionals struggle with the lack of clear career paths in the industry, there are tools, tactics, and best practices to help spot and leverage new opportunities. In this occasional series, we’ll hear from leading experts both in and outside the clinical trial industry as they offer insights on how to thrive […]
Physicians who don’t suggest a clinical trial until other efforts have failed are selling such studies and their potential volunteer patients short, says trial participant Linda Ridpath. Diagnosed with lupus 25 years ago, she is currently enrolled in her third study—this time for a drug already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) […]
Increasing competition for a shallow, specialized patient pool is putting potentially terminal pressure on smaller clinical trial operations, some experts suggest. If that’s the future, a new entity plans to be ready. hyperCORE International, a “super network” of clinical research site organizations unveiled in April, has just formed the second largest site network in the […]
PAID MESSAGE As a study coordinator at a major cancer center, I was fortunate enough to work closely with oncologists and their patients. Sometimes, I'd developed a special rapport with a nervous family of a newly diagnosed patient, who would quickly find themselves overwhelmed with the barrage of doctors, surgeons, nurses, pharmacists, and radiologists. Participating […]
Clinical trial professionals have much to be proud about when they get to work each morning. Improving quality of life. Advancing medical innovations. Giving hope to the hopeless. Turns out, they’re pumping up local economies, too. America’s biopharmaceutical companies sponsored more than 4,500 clinical trials in 2017 in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, […]
