Newsletter | June 1, 2026

06.01.26 -- Why Site Engagement Isn't Just A Role Anymore

PATIENT CENTRICITY

The Patient-Centered Trial Paradigm For Knee Osteoarthritis

Although PROs can complicate a trial design, they're essential to reflecting a patient’s true knee OA experience and producing meaningful evidence, explains Katie Mowry, Ph.D., VP of R&D at Organogensis.

When Participants Need Help, Someone's Got To Respond

Support for clinical trial participants helps you ensure requests are handled clearly and in line with study guidelines by managing travel, reimbursements, and logistics.

CDA Strategies That Unclog The Study Startup Bottleneck

Confidential disclosure agreements (CDAs) can cause clinical trial delays, but streamlining negotiations reduces friction and fosters better long-term relationships between sponsors and sites.

Community Connections: Leveraging Localized Patient Access

This roundtable brought together several experts to discuss how expanding community-based research can transform clinical trial recruitment and representation.

Eliminate Review Friction With An Industry-First IRB Platform

Strengthen trial compliance and data integrity by mastering GCP through practical, real-world scenarios designed to prevent costly errors and ensure audit readiness across your research team.

PATIENT RECRUITMENT

How Did You End Up In Clinical Research?

To commemorate Clinical Trials Day, we asked clinical researchers to share their story, answering, "How did you get into clinical research?"

The Benefit Of Applying Corporate Meetings Management Best Practices

Discover how a structured, scalable approach to patient support can streamline trial operations, improve retention, and elevate the clinical experience for everyone involved.

A Global Framework For Engagement, Retention & Trial Success

Explore how clinical operations leaders can close the global retention gap by designing experiences that feel genuinely local, from how participants are paid to how they’re supported day to day.

Why Operational Design Determines Recruitment And Retention

Patient recruitment challenges often receive the most attention in clinical trials, yet many enrollment and retention issues stem from operational friction embedded in study design.

CLINICAL SITES

Why Site Engagement Isn't Just A Role Anymore

GSK’s Laura O'Donnell says site engagement is no longer just a function or team, it’s an organization-wide capability. In this article, she discusses why the traditional CRA relationship model has broken down, how sponsors are using data and AI to better support sites, and why human connection still matters in an increasingly automated clinical trial environment.

Unanticipated Roadblocks In Ovarian Cancer Drug Development

Enhance your Ovarian cancer trials by enabling community referral pipelines, aligning imaging with biomarker assessments, and selecting sites based on verifiable surgical capacity.

The Case For Parallel Processing In Clinical Trial Start-Up

Stop letting outdated processes stall your innovation and learn how parallel processing transforms study start-up from a series of hurdles into a synchronized sprint.

How Sponsors, CROs, And Tech Vendors Reduce Site Tech Overload

Sites juggle dozens of applications, which increases their workload and limits their capacity. Sites need an industry-wide single sign-on experience that brings key systems and applications under one roof.

The State Of eSource Adoption In Clinical Trials

Learn how eSource-ready sites are improving trial efficiency, reducing site burden, and becoming essential to modern clinical trial execution.

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