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What Smaller Biotechs Need to Get Right in Their First APAC Phase III Trial

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ACT Brief: APAC Trial Advantages, Learning From Setbacks, and Sunharbo Stroke Prevention Approval

The Role of Clinical Research Professionals: From Early Discovery to Phase III Success

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In today’s ACT Brief, we examine how China’s trial startup timelines compare with those in the US and Europe, whether AI-drafted clinical study reports speed drug development, and how Bimzelx compared with Skyrizi in psoriatic arthritis.

AI can draft a CSR in minutes, but the report only reflects evidence that has already converged, so faster drafting shifts the bottleneck to upstream reconciliation, database-lock readiness, and human accountability rather than shortening the trial itself.

In this video interview, James Cheong, senior vice president of Asia Pacific at Precision for Medicine, details how NMPA reforms, parallel reviews, and expanded reviewer capacity brought China’s startup timelines in line with the US and Europe, and could shorten them further.

In today’s ACT Brief, we examine why APAC inspection findings mirror those in the US and Europe, how key risk indicators should be read together, and how FDA granted accelerated approval to a subcutaneous antibody therapy for recurrent head and neck cancer.

In this video interview, James Cheong, senior vice president of Asia Pacific at Precision for Medicine, explains how FDA inspection findings at APAC sites compare with those in the US and Europe, and why the common issues, such as informed consent versioning, are not unique to the region.

In today’s ACT Brief, we examine why outdated views of Asia Pacific trial sites persist, how community access gaps reflect both patient costs and site infrastructure, and how VeonGen has aligned with the FDA on a pivotal gene therapy trial design.

Risk-based quality management depends on knowing what to monitor and on interpreting what the signals mean.

In this video interview, James Cheong, senior vice president of Asia Pacific at Precision for Medicine, explains how regulatory reform and inspection data contradict the view that APAC sites are slower or lower quality, and why sponsors need to update their assumptions.

In this Q&A, Kent Thoelke, CEO of Paradigm Health, discusses why participation gaps in community and rural settings come down to both patient cost barriers and site infrastructure, how legacy workflows weigh on community clinics, and what policy and technology changes it would take to make clinical research a real care option for more patients.

In today’s ACT Brief, we examine how capturing friction in real time can reveal site burden, how OpenAI and Mistral compare on clinical trial matching, and how Boehringer Ingelheim is licensing early-stage oncology programs from SBP Group.

Mistral and OpenAI produced identical overall eligibility labels across 200 synthetic patient-study assessments, with criterion-level disagreements concentrated in inclusion criteria where models switch between “Uncertain” and “Not included” when records lack sufficient evidence, so model choice should be driven by deployment architecture, control, and cost rather than assumed interchangeability.

In Episode 4 of The Human Side of Clinical Trials, host Brian S. McGowan, PhD, FACEHP, chief learning officer and co-founder of ArcheMedX, Inc., speaks with Jason Riis, PhD, CEO and chief behavioral scientist at Behavioralize, about how capturing friction closer to the moment it happens can reveal unclear instructions, technology friction, and workarounds that retrospective surveys and debriefs tend to miss.

ACT Brief: Community Research Financing Gaps, Neuroscience Endpoint Data, and Teva’s Biosimilar Deal
In today’s ACT Brief, we examine why community research needs lasting financing and infrastructure, how electronic outcome tools can strengthen neuroscience endpoints, and how Teva is licensing two biosimilars from Samsung Bioepis.

Neuroscience trials struggle to show benefit because symptoms are subjective and variable, and eCOA strengthens dossiers by standardizing ClinRO administration, capturing outcomes in real time to reduce recall bias, and adding patient and caregiver perspectives that clinician scales miss.

Community participation gaps look less like a question of patient willingness and more like a financing and infrastructure problem that no single bill has yet solved.























