Newsletter | December 1, 2025

12.01.25 -- Funding Diversity Where It Starts — At the Site

CLINICAL SITES

Turning Site-Centric From Slogan To Reality

SCRS’s Collaborate Forward initiative aims to move “site-centricity” from industry buzzword to operational reality. By documenting how sponsors, CROs, and technology providers are improving feasibility, budgeting, contracting, and patient recruitment through measurable collaboration practices, SCRS is working to provide the industry with a playbook for better site relationships and trial execution.

How Real-World Data On Site Costs Accelerates Clinical Trial Success

Outdated budgeting slows oncology trials. Real-world site cost data enables faster planning, smoother startup, and better patient care through smarter, evidence-based financial decisions.

Simplify Trial Technology With An Emerging Aggregation Platform

Sites are frequently overwhelmed with the sheer number of technologies they must work with to conduct a clinical trial, and this aggregation platform can streamline trial management.

Leverage Expertly Curated Data To Make Effective Site Selections

Clinical trials often struggle with enrollment, delaying the delivery of therapies and making access to recent, accurate site data crucial for informed decision making.

PATIENT CENTRICITY

Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface Trial Balances Regulatory Requirements With Patient Needs

Cognixion CTO Chris Ullrich introduces the Axon-R Nucleus bio-sensing hub and discusses its feasibility trial, highlighting the importance of patient input, caregiver quality of life, and regulatory support. 

Inside Home Trial Support: Safety, Logistics, And The Patient Experience

Discover how MRN’s CEO Stuart Redding leads efforts to bring clinical trials to patients' homes, workplaces, and communities, enhancing accessibility across all trial phases.

Advancing Neuromuscular Research With Partnership And Patient Focus

Improve your neuromuscular and neurodegenerative trial's recruitment, retention, and satisfaction by aligning trial design with patient and caregiver needs using a 360° patient-centric model.

PATIENT RECRUITMENT

Funding Diversity Where It Starts — At The Site

After crossing paths with retired family physician and researcher Dr. Bryce Palchick at two conferences, I learned about ACRO’s new Diversity & Inclusion Site Resource Grants Program — an effort funding community sites like Bryce’s to make trial diversity more than a buzzword by supporting real, grassroots engagement.

The Trust Deficit: Is An Overlooked Literacy Gap Stalling Enrollment?

We examine the critical disconnect in a patient's understanding and how purpose-built AI platforms can translate complex medical language into plain, accessible communication.

Conducting Early Phase Clinical Trials In Diverse Healthy Populations

Download our guide to learn proven strategies for designing early phase clinical trials that successfully enroll diverse populations and meet FDA diversity guidance.

Can Condition-Based Matching Shift The Trial Recruitment Paradigm?

Condition-based matching is replacing the inefficient, study-by-study model with a patient-centric approach that matches individuals to all relevant trials based on their unique medical profiles.

PXO System: For Patient Recruitment, Enrollment, And Retention

By integrating strategy, communication, and measurement, this system offers a structured method for improving engagement and advancing more effective, inclusive research experiences.

Removing Barriers To Trial Participation

One platform is transforming the participant journey to deliver a 60% reduction in participant drop-out and 97% engagement rates, improving retention for even the most vulnerable populations.

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