Focus on Patients

  1. New Primary Endpoint For Tetraplegia Drug Gets Support From Patients And The FDA 6/9/2026

    NervGen CEO Adam Rogers discussed why choosing a hand function endpoint for tetraplegia made sense for patients and how regulators helped guide and support the company's decision.

  2. Expanding Access To Cell Therapy Trials Beyond AMCs And Into The Community 6/1/2026

    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. 

  3. Why Tolerability Will Drive The Next Wave Of Obesity Treatments 5/29/2026

    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.

  4. Designing Trials Patients Can Actually Complete: Lessons From The SWIFT Deep TMS Study 5/15/2026

    Being time conscious and attuned to patient needs are two contributing factors to trials that recruit and retain patients for the duration.

  5. It's A Fact: Sharing Clinical Trial Results With Participants Builds Trust 5/14/2026

    CISCRP experts share results from their annual Perceptions & Insights Study showing that patients continue to place a high value on receiving both individual and overall study results.

  6. Precision Medicine Needs Better Infrastructure — And We Already Have The Models For It 5/6/2026

    Standard methods for evaluating clinical trial representativeness perform poorly when the trial population differs from the broader disease population in a patient registry. June Cha, Ph.D., MPH, explains how the right metrics can make a difference.

  7. Static Reimbursement Structures Aren't Enough. Patients Need Whole-Person Support 4/27/2026

    Fixed patient reimbursement isn't enough, says Donna Libretti Cooke, Erin Miller, and Jeanne M. Regnante. To truly care for patients and support their participation in a clinical trial, they need whole-person support.

  8. Breaking Barriers In Rare Disease Clinical Trials 4/27/2026

    Priovant Therapeutics CEO Ben Zimmer shares lessons learned from rare disease VALOR trial exploring a new therapy for the treatment of dermatomyositis.

  9. Justice In Human Participant Research: Reinterpreting Belmont For Contemporary Clinical Trials 4/23/2026

    Experienced IRB professional Stephanie Pyle revisits the Belmont Report to consider what its principle of “justice” means for research studies developed and conducted today. 

  10. The Patient-Centered Trial Paradigm For Knee Osteoarthritis 4/22/2026

    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.