At the DDW 2026 meeting, the IBD landscape was portrayed as increasingly competitive and diversified, with emerging players and novel mechanisms challenging established standards of care.
- The FDA Is Rudderless And Clinical Trials Are Left Adrift
- Expanding Access To Cell Therapy Trials Beyond AMCs And Into The Community
- What's The Role Of HEOR For A Clinical Researcher? A Perspective From ISPOR 2026
- Why Tolerability Will Drive The Next Wave Of Obesity Treatments
- Why Cell And Gene Therapy Has Not Reached More Patients — And Why Clinical Operations Is The Bridge
- Safety Is The Mantra In Kivu Bioscience's ADC Trials For Solid Tumors
- Taking On Patient Recruitment From Another Angle — The Payer
GUEST COLUMNISTS
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Safety Is The Mantra In Kivu Bioscience's ADC Trials For Solid Tumors
Kivu Bioscience CEO Mohit Trikha, Ph.D., contends that safer ADCs enable higher effective dosing and could elicit a better response in solid tumors. In this Q&A, he also discusses how parallel trial execution, global site strategy, and stakeholder collaboration support rapid, data-driven development.
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Taking On Patient Recruitment From Another Angle — The Payer
Medzown CEO Jennifer Carter, MD, discusses the challenge of patient recruitment and how coalescing around clinical care data might be a better “in” for recruitment.
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Clinical Trial Ads, Informed Consent, And Half-Hearted Regulation
Should informed consent really start with clinical trials ads? And if not, why do IRBs need to be involved in their approval? Paul Ivisin unravels the tangled web of IRBs, regulators, and clinical trial advertisements.
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FDA's HALO Platform And Elsa 4.0: Five Critical Risks For Sponsors
Discover five critical risks created by HALO's architecture and Elsa 4.0's expanded capabilities. Then, learn how to implement practical safeguards sponsors to implement immediately.
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Biotech Ecosystem Helps Advance A New Approach To Inflammation Into Trials
BioAegis Therapeutics CEO Susan Levinson, Ph.D., talks about the role of partner and regulatory support in bringing their investigational immunotherapy into the clinic.
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Synaptic Regeneration And The Future Of Alzheimer's R&D
For too long, treating Alzheimer’s disease has been a case of “managed decline.” We need to move beyond slowing disease progression toward achieving tangible functional recovery.
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FDA Form 483 Responses: The Difference Between Explaining An Observation And Demonstrating Control
ADRES Bio's Rivka Zaibel walks sponsors through the proper response to an FDA Form 483, emphasizing the need to show understanding and control of the situation.
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Judgement-Based Project Management Builds Partners' Trust
Project managers often operate under rules that govern how and when they execute tasks. But that doesn't always include room for individual judgment. But judgement, argues Jason Bork, is the differentiator in successful partnerships.
CLINICAL TRIAL WHITE PAPERS
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Key AI Trial Insights From Regulators And Consultants
AI’s transformative impact promises more efficient, cost-effective, and successful clinical trials across the pharmaceutical landscape.
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Transforming Regulatory Processes Through AI, ML, NLP, And RPAs4/7/2025
Explore the rapidly evolving landscape of regulatory processes as they undergo a profound digital transformation, highlighting how emerging technologies are reshaping traditional regulatory frameworks.
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A New Approach To Dynamic Clinical Oversight With Centralized Insights7/10/2025
RBQM is transforming clinical trial oversight. By automating protocol digitalization, site selection, and risk assessments 360° Monitoring enables the proactive identification of CtQ factors.
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5 Questions Sponsors Must Ask Before Selecting A Randomization Partner5/12/2026
Choose the right IRT partner for complex master protocols. Learn how adaptive randomisation expertise and flexible technology reduce disruption and keep trials execution-ready.
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Writing An IND Module 3 For Cell And Gene Therapy Products9/1/2025
This whitepaper outlines the critical considerations for CGT Investigational New Drug (IND) Module 3, as well as how to avoid clinical holds and ensure regulatory readiness.
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Agentic AI And How It's Impacting Clinical Trial Research7/7/2025
Since ChatGPT’s launch in 2022, artificial intelligence has transformed industries worldwide—but the next evolution, Agentic AI, promises to be even more profound.
CLINICAL TRIAL APP NOTES & CASE STUDIES
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Developing And Validating Clinical Receptor Occupancy Pharmacodynamic Biomarker Assays9/25/2025
Receptor occupancy (RO) assays assess drug-target engagement and support PK/PD modeling. Accurate RO requires customized assays using stabilized blood to monitor CD6 modulation in autoimmune therapy.
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How Pfizer Used Wearable DHTs To Reveal Meaningful Treatment Effects In Cancer Cachexia11/20/2024
Wearable digital health technologies (DHTs) played a crucial role in assessing patient-centric outcomes during pfizer's study into the benefits of using ponsegromab for treating cancer cachexia.
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Optimizing EDC Strategy And Data Collection for a Rare Disease Trial6/11/2025
Explore how Veristat created a forward-looking roadmap for EDC and CRFs integration for a small biotech sponsor, ensuring a future-ready data ecosystem without overcomplicating current operations.
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Advancing Neuromuscular Research with Digital Endpoints1/20/2026
Explore cutting-edge digital measures that capture peak mobility and activity in real-world settings, offering meaningful insights into disease progression in neuromuscular disorders.
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Medable's Japanese Clinical Trial Exceeds FPI Date And eCOA Adherence3/10/2025
A top-10 global pharma company aimed to address eCOA adherence and patient enrollment challenges faced by clinical trial sites in Japan. Explore an initiative to enhance the patient and site experience.
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Reframing Clinical Vendor Selection7/2/2025
Explore a platform that enables seamless vendor selection as well as cross-functional collaboration with built-in templates and tailored question libraries that simplify proposal creation and review.
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE
- 06.02.26 -- Aligning AI Use Clinical Trials With FDA And EMA Expectations
- 06.02.26 -- Better meetings. Stronger study momentum.
- 06.01.26 -- Why Site Engagement Isn't Just A Role Anymore
- 05.29.26 -- Sharing Clinical Trial Results With Participants Builds Trust
- 05.29.26 -- Improve Your Patient Recruitment Success
RECRUITMENT AND DIVERSITY
This section includes some helpful resources regarding patient recruitment and diversity in clinical trials, including this link to the FDA's guidance on diversity action plans.
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CEO Paul J. Hastings discusses Nkarta's decision to bring outpatient dosing into the community setting, including how it communicated with the FDA on safety and how the changes will improve patient access.
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Medzown CEO Jennifer Carter, MD, discusses the challenge of patient recruitment and how coalescing around clinical care data might be a better “in” for recruitment.
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Should informed consent really start with clinical trials ads? And if not, why do IRBs need to be involved in their approval? Paul Ivisin unravels the tangled web of IRBs, regulators, and clinical trial advertisements.
FOCUS ON PATIENTS
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CEO Paul J. Hastings discusses Nkarta's decision to bring outpatient dosing into the community setting, including how it communicated with the FDA on safety and how the changes will improve patient access.
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For the next generation of obesity medicines, enhancing how patients experience therapy will inform discovery and development efforts and may ultimately determine long-term success.
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Being time conscious and attuned to patient needs are two contributing factors to trials that recruit and retain patients for the duration.