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In this Q&A, Elizabeth Walsh, PMP, ACRP-CP, founder of Walsh Clinical Advisory and co-author of The Clinical Execution Blueprint, discusses the persistent misconceptions about sponsor accountability, why execution gaps originate long before study startup, and what genuine inspection readiness looks like when it is built in from the outset.

In this video interview, Stella K. Vnook, PhD, CEO of Kaida BioPharma and founder of Aviva Ventures, explains how declining NIH funding, late-stage pharma acquisition strategies, and global operating pressures are forcing sponsors to move faster and more capital-efficiently toward clinical inflection points.

In today's ACT Brief, we examine the $500,000-per-day cost of execution delays and protocol variance at the point of care, why oncology real-world data requires hybrid clinical expertise with technology, and scaling challenges as trial data volumes continue to grow.

Real-world oncology data requires hybrid curation combining clinical expertise with technology to address variability in documentation, missing data, and complex concepts like lines of therapy that are often implicit rather than explicitly recorded in EHRs.

With delayed trials carrying a significant cost burden, poor execution at the point of care is a liability no AI discovery tool can fix.

In today's ACT Brief, we examine how a gradual, win-driven strategy scales real-time monitoring adoption, why consumer wearables need rigorous fit-for-purpose validation, and an FDA committee's favorable vote on Replimune's oncolytic virus combination therapy.

Consumer-grade wearables offer promise for reducing trial burden and improving engagement, but accuracy and reliability vary substantially by device, measurement, and population, requiring rigorous fit-for-purpose validation and careful endpoint selection before integration into regulated research.

In this video interview, Raviv Pryluk, CEO and co-founder of PhaseV, outlines a gradual, win-driven strategy for making real-time monitoring stick—starting in early phases and building toward pivotal trials with the right technology partners and a network effect that scales.

In today's ACT Brief, we examine why real-time monitoring scales only through coordinated ecosystem efforts, how organizational failures not models explain weak AI results, and FDA's advisory panel peptide compounding decision.

In this video interview, Raviv Pryluk, CEO and co-founder of PhaseV, makes the case that scaling real-time data review requires an ecosystem approach—bringing regulators, sponsors, CROs, and technology vendors together in a shared learning environment rather than letting progress remain siloed.

As clinical development grows increasingly complex and talent markets remain constrained, sponsors must evolve beyond binary outsourcing decisions to embrace a configurable functional service provider continuum that enhances operational optionality without requiring wholesale restructuring.

In today's ACT Brief, we examine how sustainability is shifting from compliance to a procurement driver, what infrastructure gaps remain in FDA's real-time pilot model, and regulatory guidance targeting unnecessarily restrictive cancer trial criteria.

New documents targeting performance status, washout periods, and laboratory value thresholds aim to close the gap between patients willing to participate in oncology trials and those who actually enroll.