Latest News

In today’s ACT Brief, we explore how AstraZeneca is redefining gastric cancer care through the MATTERHORN trial, Phesi’s Gen Li shares how AI and patient data are advancing global trial equity, and FDA unveils new draft guidance streamlining biosimilar development.

Learn how increasing system complexity and patient-facing technologies are creating new burdens for clinical trial sites—and what vendors and sponsors can do to streamline operations and improve support.

Gain insight into how the MATTERHORN trial’s results across PD-L1 subgroups could expand access to immunotherapy and reshape biomarker strategies in early gastric and GEJ cancer treatment.

Discover how the Phase III MATTERHORN trial is redefining outcomes for patients with early-stage gastric and gastroesophageal cancers through the first perioperative immunotherapy regimen to show a survival advantage.

In today’s ACT Brief, we spotlight how new OpenAI collaborations are transforming drug development, how AI is driving smarter site activation in global trials, and how the FDA’s approval of a single-injection Omvoh regimen enhances convenience for ulcerative colitis patients.

Exploring how large-scale patient databases and AI analytics can accelerate site activation, strengthen recruitment, and improve trial design from the start.

Thermo Fisher will integrate OpenAI APIs into its Accelerator Drug Development platform and clinical research business, while Lundbeck deploys ChatGPT across its global workforce to drive R&D and commercial innovation.

In today’s ACT Brief, we examine how artificial intelligence is helping uncover site leaders in underserved regions to strengthen trial diversity—and explore new research suggesting Ozempic may reduce biological age by more than three years.

Addressing the imbalance in clinical trial workloads by empowering mid-level investigators and using AI to expand access to high-quality, diverse research leadership.

Examining how artificial intelligence can help identify true key opinion leaders in emerging markets to improve site influence, patient engagement, and trial success.

In today’s ACT Brief, we spotlight expanding AI collaborations transforming life sciences, the role of patient-centric technology in improving global trial diversity, and the FDA’s approval of Bayer’s Lynkuet—the first dual neurokinin antagonist for menopausal hot flashes.

Highlighting how technology and mindset shifts can help expand breast cancer research leadership beyond high-income countries and build more inclusive global trial networks.

Medidata deepens its collaboration with Sanofi to advance AI-enabled clinical development, while BioRender joins forces with Anthropic to power visual communication within Claude for Life Sciences.