Focus on Patients

1. Gilead Art Campaign Captures The PBC Patient Experience, Inspires Patient-Centric Trials 6/27/2025

   Gilead’s Carrie Frenette discusses the company's art campaign centered on primary biliary cholangitis to bring awareness to the condition and create more patient-centric trials for patients.

2. Population-Aware Medicine: Mitigating Racial Disparities In Efficacy And Accuracy 6/26/2025

   Medicine is not one-size-fits-all. Here, strategic advisor Bill Hanlon implores pharma to develop therapeutics and diagnostics anchored by racial and ethnic diversity.

3. Single Peptides & Pig Testing: How Longhorn's Developing Its Universal Flu Shot 6/19/2025

   CEO Jeff Fischer discusses Longhorn's long-acting universal flu vaccine, from its suitability for testing in pigs to overcoming vaccine hesitancy.

4. BioMarin Generates Patient Experience Data With Early And Often Engagement 6/18/2025

   BioMarin Pharmaceutical's Ebony Dashiell-Aje, Ph.D., discusses how early and often patient engagement facilitates rich patient experience data generation.

5. Improving Recruitment Needs More Than Transactional Fixes To Earn Patient Trust 6/11/2025

   Driving patient recruitment and retention in clinical trials isn't always about scheduling, transportation, or even reimbursement. Often, and especially for marginalized communities, it begins with trust.

6. Evolving Neurology And Neuroinflammation Therapies And Trials In 2025 6/5/2025

   Could 2025 be the year that advancements in brain health and increased funding for innovative therapies make a difference for neuroinflammation therapies and trials? Immunic CEO Daniel Vitt, Ph.D., discusses.

7. Regeneron Trials Balance Quest For "Scientific Truth" With Patient Impact 6/3/2025

   Regeneron’s Andres Sirulnik, MD, Ph.D., discusses the importance of seeking "scientific truth" and an unwavering commitment to patient centricity in the context of the company’s hematology research.

8. Why Sponsors Must Build Trials That Acknowledge All Patients' Needs 5/22/2025

   Servier Pharmaceuticals' Susan Pandya discusses how sponsors can translate a belief in patient centricity into action by creating more accessible, inclusive, and patient-friendly pathways to participation.

9. Celebrating Clinical Trials Day, Part 1: Putting The Patient First 5/20/2025

   Celebrate Clinical Trials Day 2025 with these industry experts sharing their experiences and advice for putting the patient first.

10. Listen Up, Pharma: C. diff Patient Advocate Shares Tips To Better Understand Patients 5/8/2025

    The Peggy Lillis Foundation CEO Christian John Lillis discusses his experience advocating for C. diff therapies, highlighting some successes as well as shortcomings in feeling heard.