“Rare diseases are bad enough, but the ones that affect children are even more heartbreaking,” says Mike Snape, CEO of AMO Pharma, a virtual biotech focused on rare disease. “The medical need in these areas is greater than ever. They also present challenges for drug developers, especially with clinical trials.”
Samus Therapeutics is a privately-held, biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel therapeutics and diagnostics targeting the epichaperome, a foundational protein complex emergent from multiple disease states, including oncology and neurology. “We are the ‘anti-epichaperome company,’ says Jonathan Lewis, the company’s executive chairman and CEO. “Following various forms of cellular stress, chaperome units are rewired into the epichaperome network. Targeting and disrupting the epichaperome in cancer results in cell death and in neurologic diseases, neuronal survival, with no apparent effect on normal cells.”
How many of the clinical trials that your company has conducted have met the initial recruitment timelines? How often have you seen recruitment issues increase costs or cause delays in your company’s operational objectives? Nearly 80 percent of clinical trials experience delays or even early termination due to recruitment issues.1 These delays not only negatively affect the sponsor company but also keep patients from getting potentially life-saving treatments in a timely manner (if at all).
Before the protocol authoring process even begins, a variety of activities and decisions are necessary to establish a strategy for success. The following steps provide concepts and considerations that are essential in formulating the details that will become the protocol synopsis and ultimately the clinical study protocol.
Fitness trackers were popular holiday gifts this year and sales are on the rise. While counting steps and getting fit may be the primary reason consumers are purchasing Fitbits and other wearables, other sensors these devices include, such as heart rate and sleep monitors, could actually help big pharma collect a wealth of valuable data to revolutionize personalized medicine.
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