- Lightship and Castor, providers of decentralized clinical trial solutions, today announced a strategic partnership to run direct-to-patient (hybrid) clinical trials at scale. The partnership combines operational excellence in clinical studies and technology that delivers for the most complex clinical trials. - Lightship’s end-to-end delivery model combined with an in-house care team provide the best possible patient experience in clinical trials. - By partnering with Castor’s
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Medidata Announces Decentralized Clinical Trials Program
What You Should Know: - Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, announced the launch of the Medidata Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCT) Program, the most comprehensive set of unified, secure technologies that enable full decentralization across the clinical trial continuum. For the first time ever, drug, vaccine, and medical device developers (sponsors) and contract research organizations (CROs) can take advantage of the only platform offering on the market which combines: -
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Hawthorne Effect Secures $20M to Decentralize Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Hawthorne Effect, a San Francisco-based solution for decentralizing clinical trials, today announced it has raised $20M in Series A funding led by Northpond Ventures with participation from SignalFire and P5 Health Ventures. - Founded in 2015, Hawthrone Effect alleviates key issues related to patient recruitment and retention via its tech-driven platform and expansive network of medical professionals. Hawthrone’s key offerings include: - Hawthorne Cloud: The
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Medidata Launches New Tech to Transform the Patient Clinical Trial Experience
What You Should Know: - Today Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, launched myMedidata Registries – a new technology that expands and strengthens the company’s myMedidata patient portal to engage patients before and after (i.e., long term follow-up/safety surveillance) a clinical trial. - The offering, which redefines Medidata’s end-to-end technology solutions and represents a major advance for the life sciences industry, empowers patients to
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PE Firm Thoma Bravo Acquires Clinical Trial Financial Platform Greenphire – Health M&A
What You Should Know: - Thoma Bravo, a private equity investment firm focused on the software and technology-enabled services sector announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenphire, a financial lifecycle management software for clinical trials, from The Riverside Company. Financial details were not disclosed for the pending transaction. - The acquisition, which is subject to customary regulatory approvals, is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. -
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Florence Raises $80M to Expand Connectivity Platform for Clinical Trials
What You Should Know: - Florence, a site connectivity platform in clinical trials, today announced the close of a $80 million Series C funding round led by Insight Partners, a global venture capital and private equity firm focused on investing in ScaleUp software companies. Existing investors Fulcrum Equity Partners, Bee Partners, and Flashpoint also joined this round. - Based in Atlanta, GA, Florence is a global leader in remote connectivity and electronic document workflow management for
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Cancer Centers: Here’s How We Can Restart Clinical Trials Today
Biopharmaceutical companies developing cancer treatments need to restart the clinical trials shut down or delayed during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic. Some are holding back, however, due to a lack of confidence that sufficient eligible patients can be recruited and enrolled in the trials. Recruiting patients into a clinical trial was challenging before COVID-19 hit, and it has only become exponentially more difficult. Sponsors also know many patients have been putting off
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DoD, Duke, John Hopkins, HJF, physIQ Launch 18-Month COVID-19 Clinical Trial Study
What You Should Know: - Today, PhysIQ Inc. announced its partnership with Johns Hopkins University, Duke University and The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc. (HJF), to support a clinical trial to evaluate products for early treatment and post-exposure treatment of COVID-19. The 18-month study will assess disease progression and provide early indication of infection. This DOD-funded initiative will assess the role of continuous biosensor
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Health2047 Spins Out SiteBridge Research Launches to Improve Clinical Trial Access for Small and Community Physician Practices
What You Should Know: - Health2047, the innovation arm of the American Medical Association, today announced the spinout of a new company, SiteBridge Research, that offers a more accessible way for a broader set of physicians and their patients to participate in clinical research. - SiteBridge Research creates a network of independent, small practice physicians to gather data from a broader, more inclusive patient population and, ultimately, create more widely applicable clinical
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Syneos, Medable Team Up to Bring Decentralized Clinical Trials to Patients
What You Should Know: - Syneos Health, a fully integrated biopharmaceutical solutions organization, and Medable, a cloud platform for patient-centered drug development, announced a strategic partnership to bring clinical trials closer to the patient. - The partnership will deliver new decentralized capabilities to Syneos Health with the aim of increasing clinical trial diversity, while improving patient access and experiences to transform biopharmaceutical product development. - As part
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