How FDA listens to the voice of patients

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vows to never forget that their efforts to evaluate and approve new medical products is done to benefit patients. Because of this they are constantly looking to find new ways to incorporate the views and expertise of patients and...

Site Selection Tips

Kunal Sampat, MNA, senior manager for Clinical Trial Programs at Abbott Vascular believes that data should lead the way it comes to site selection. He says, “let data drive your site selection decisions” and “don’t support lousy site seletion.”1 His other tips...

Promoting Clinical Trial Participation

Doctors told T.J. Sharpe that they would be surprised if he was still alive in two years. That conversation occurred five years ago. Clinical trial practitioners helped Sharpe beat the odds. Sharpe says, “You and I can’t cure cancer, but we can help the people who...

Gretchen Bowker to lead session at 2017 RAPS Convergence

Gretchen Bowker, Co-founder and COO of Pearl IRB, will lead a session of the Health-Related Foods Track at this year’s RAPS Convergence in National Harbor, MD. The session, titled “Functional Foods and Dietary Supplements: Manufacturing, Claims, and...