Protocol Design Featured Articles

  1. Why HEOR Keeps Arriving Too Late — And How ClinOps Can Fix It 12/9/2025

    Rob Abbott, CEO of ISPOR, breaks down why HEOR timing keeps clashing with ClinOps timelines and offers practical ways to integrate value, evidence, and payer expectations much earlier in development.

  2. Overcoming Cell Therapy Design Challenges To Treat AML And Other Life-Threatening Diseases 12/9/2025

    CERo CEO Chris Ehrlich discusses how a focus on safety, robust manufacturing, and key early indicators is rewriting the playbook for future personalized medicine trials.

  3. Navigating The Challenges Of Cell Therapy Clinical Trials 12/5/2025

    IN8bio CEO William Ho shares how they overcame operational challenges unique to cell therapy research, including how to carefully conduct site expansion and onboard new sites without disrupting study timelines.

  4. Patient Input Is A Must — Even Under Time And Money Constraints 12/4/2025

    Stacie J. Bell, PhD, chief clinical research officer of Lupus Therapeutics, discusses the positive impacts patient advocacy groups can have on patient recruitment, patient retention, protocol design, and more.

  5. Digital Biomarkers Are Reshaping Alzheimer's Patient Experience And Data 11/26/2025

    Cognito CEO Christian Howell shares how EEG and digital biomarkers are reshaping recruitment, patient experience, and the quality of study data in Alzheimer’s research.

  6. Non-Invasive Brain-Computer Interface Trial Balances Regulatory Requirements With Patient Needs 11/13/2025

    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. 

  7. Sponsors Collect Too Much "Non-Essential" Data, Say Tufts And TransCelerate 11/6/2025

    A collaboration between Tufts CSDD, Tufts School of Medicine, and TransCelereate BioPharma revealed just how much extra data sponsors are collecting — and why that's a problem.

  8. Behavior Modeling Can Help Sponsors Better Understand Sites And Patients 11/4/2025

    Learn how behavioral modeling can identify patients at risk of dropout and sites that may need additional support, so you can build a more resilient research network.

  9. Funding Diversity Where It Starts — At The Site 11/3/2025

    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.

  10. How AI Is Transforming Patient Stratification 10/31/2025

    Discover how AI tools can help stratify or group patients into subtypes that respond differently to treatment.