Patient Recruitment/Retention Featured Articles

  1. 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.

  2. The Industry Talks Access — Fabian Sandoval Builds It 5/1/2026

    Fabian Sandoval is redefining what a clinical research site looks like — building trust through community partnerships, media, and education to improve trial access and awareness long before enrollment begins.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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. 

  6. 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.

  7. Caregivers: The Missing Line Item In Trial Budgets 4/21/2026

    More than 60 million Americans are caregivers, holding up a system and clinical research enterprise, yet they are mostly uncompensated for their efforts. That needs to change, says Denise N. Bronner and Marsha Calloway-Campbell.

  8. Reformulating An In-Clinic IV To At-Home Injection Puts Patients At The Center 4/20/2026

    For Soligenix, reformulation was not a detour but a necessary step toward optimizing a therapy for real-world use. Discover how the team reformulated its drug delivery from in-clinic to at-home administration.

  9. Clinical Trials Succeed When Patients Talk — And The Entire Ecosystem Listens 4/15/2026

    Patient advocate and founder of MIB Agents Ann Graham knows intimately the importance of including patient feedback into trial design. She explains value of — and offers practical advice — for doing just that.

  10. Clinical Trials Have A Native American Problem 4/14/2026

    Kelsey Powell is working to close a long-standing gap in clinical trials: the lack of participation from Native American communities. Her experience highlights how issues of trust, awareness, and fragmented systems continue to limit access — and what it will take to change that.