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PPD

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Rare Diseases and the Eye - Envisioning Strategies for Success

Developing therapies and successfully executing clinical trials for rare ophthalmologic disorders present unique challenges, but with these challenges come significant opportunities to employ innovative strategies to drive success. Explore how careful feasibility and novel approaches to patient recruitment can advance the treatment of rare conditions of the eye. Live: Friday, 27 Oct., 2017 | 11 am EDT | 8 am PDT | 1600 BST | 1700 CEST / On Demand available after airing until 27 Oct., 2018. Register free: http://www.appliedclinicaltrialsonline.com/act_w/success


Vlad Bogin, MD, FACP

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Clinical Trials in Kazakhstan: Open For Business

This brief overview of Kazakhstan presented by Vlad Bogin will help you get acquainted with this emerging clinical trial location.



Maxim Kosov, MD, PhD

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Interexpert Agreement on Adverse Events’ Evaluation

Study measures the differing judgment levels between clinical investigators and drug safety experts.


Alexey Maximovich

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Interexpert Agreement on Adverse Events’ Evaluation

Study measures the differing judgment levels between clinical investigators and drug safety experts.


Maria Cecilia Dignani, MD

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Interexpert Agreement on Adverse Events’ Evaluation

Study measures the differing judgment levels between clinical investigators and drug safety experts.


John Riefler, MD

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Interexpert Agreement on Adverse Events’ Evaluation

Study measures the differing judgment levels between clinical investigators and drug safety experts.


Michele Garibbo

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Leverage Site-Owned Tech to Improve Trial Retention

Major Depressive Disorder patients display a reduced ability to feel pleasant experiences known as Anhedonia. Such a feature provides difficulties when treating depression and engaging patients during clinical trials.


llya Kurdyumov, PhD

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Orphan Drugs: Market Overview and Country-Specific Analysis

Orphan medicines have become a formidable R&D segment with robust growth that is expected to continue. Expansion is needed to cope with the issues of development and patient recruitment. An understanding of regulations, therefore, is critical.


Tomislav Babic MD, PhD

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New Diagnostic Criteria Narrows the Definition of Parkinson's Disease

The Movement Disorders Society has recently published Clinical Diagnostic Criteria for Parkinson’s disease. These new guidelines allow for the diagnosis of clinically established and clinical probable Parkinson’s disease, which will help reduce errors in clinical trials.


Siva Reddy

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Tips to Get to (and through) FDA Approvals Faster

While thousands of hours are spent in the hopes of finding more effective treatments, many of them are rejected due to administrative errors. These three tips can help reduce the frequency of common administrative mistakes during clinical trials.



Param Dave, MPharm

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Regulatory Approval in India: An Updated Review

Issues concerning the drug approval process in India have occurred in clinical studies resulting in a reduced interest from sponsors. The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has been working to amend and update it’s policies to stimulate growth in this sector.


Brion Regan

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One Way CROs Can Outshine Their Competition

The last piece in our three-part series on improving efficiencies and sponsor/CRO collaboration through advanced CTMS, reveals a way in which CROs can best their competition in the marketplace.



Magalena Matusiak

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Early Planning Assures Better Outcomes

The early implementation of post authorization safety studies (PASS) will translate to efficiencies in pre-appoval research. These benefits allow for faster approval and wider patient access to potentially life saving therapies.


Jeffrey Litwin, MD

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Engagement Shift: Informed Consent in the Digital Era

Why electronic informed consent is key to supporting today’s patient-centric mantra in clinical trials.


Sujay Jadhav

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The Evolution of Real-World Evidence: Moving Beyond Claims Data in Clinical Trials

Industry is turning to enhanced data collection methods in response to high demands for efficiency and profitability.


Cynthia Verst PharmD, MS

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The Trial of the Future

Clinical trials of the future may be closer than we think as we strive to deliver smarter, faster and more cost effective treatment to patients. The data exists to make this possible, now we must change our thought process to meet the needs of patients and sponsors.


Gahan Pandina

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Janssen Autism Knowledge Engine for Clinical Trials

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a common neurodevelopmental disorder which does not have an approved medication to address its core symptoms. The Janssen Autism Knowledge Engine (JAKE) was designed to advance the clinical research process for autism by integrating emerging technologies into traditional clinical trial processes.


Kathie Clark

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Integrated Scanning: A Key to eTMF Efficiency

Even though sponsors and CROs are working to create more and more documents as electronic originals, scanned paper still comprises a large portion of any given eTMF.


Niklas Morton

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The Growing Availability of Wearable Devices: A Perspective on Current Applications in Clinical Trials

Pilot study evaluates the feasibility of using wearable devices in clinical data collection, including the training requirements for appropriate use of the mHealth technologies and the impact of the model on data quality and patient engagement.


Laurie Halloran

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Expected Changes to the Vendor Landscape in 2018

An industry shift has led toward more insourcing and in-house resources to run trials.



Dave Handelsman

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Mining Cancer Kryptonite from Historic Clinical Trial Data

Clinical trial data from completed trials are now beginning to be shared through a variety of channels. While skeptics remain, evidence is growing that this data can lead to practice-changing behavior in patient care.


Nick Neri

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Preparing for the ICH E6 (R2) Addendum: A 3-Part Series

This 3-part series provides insight into ensuring compliance with the ICH E6 (R2) Addendum to take effect later this year. Part 3 covers the value of embracing a centralized, technology driven approach to risk based monitoring.


Bruce Bloom, JD, DDS

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Generic Drug Repurposing Clinical Trials

Generic drug repurposing can often create medical solutions regardless of the supporting entity. “Unsolved” diseases can benefit from this strategy despite commercialization challenges.


Brad Smith, PhD

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Closing the Loop

Patient recruitment remains a challenge for both the biopharma industry and the oncology research community. New recruiting platforms in development have the potential to change the way the industry uses technology, data and the internet to augment recruiting efforts.


Ellen van Bavel, PhD

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Multidisciplinary Approach to Protocol Writing

This article examines the requirements for developing an effective Clinical Trial Protocol, observing that it takes time, commitment, and a full team effort to produce protocols of an acceptable standard.

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