SCOPE

Diana Cucos, President FSP 360 at Syneos Health, describes their functional service provider (FSP) model and AbbVie partnership, highlighting how execution builds long-term clinical trial value.

Nageswara Kollu, Senior Director at Apellis Pharmaceuticals, explains how the discovery team leverages AI to automate preclinical documentation and regulatory filings, improving consistency and achieving significant time savings in the drug development process.

Corey Collins, CEO of Tekton Research, and Taryn Collett, COO of Tekton Research, discuss how Tekton's approach and collaboration with others is speeding up disease research.

Steve Rosenberg, CEO of uMotif, explores the core challenges of clinical trial recruitment and retention, and discusses how digital tools empower sites and patients to build more effective, trust-based relationships.

Across keynotes, panels, and expert interviews, this year’s SCOPE Summit underscored that accelerating clinical research depends on disciplined data strategies, earlier operational planning, and sustained focus on patients, sites, and community trust.

In this interview, Skye Hodson, PhD, of Citeline, explains how longitudinal, patient-level insights across the full care journey are helping sponsors overcome enrollment delays, investigator scarcity, and protocol complexity—transforming strategy into execution-ready deliverables that optimize feasibility, site selection, and measurable recruitment outcomes.

Miriam Dervan, founder & CEO of mdgroup, discusses how patient-centered strategies rooted in empathy and advocacy engagement can strengthen recruitment, retention, and overall trial execution.

Jeremy Wyatt, CEO, Ametris, explains how digital endpoints improve trial sensitivity, patient centricity, and efficiency through continuous real-world data, and why early regulatory collaboration is essential to reducing adoption risk and establishing consistent validation standards across programs.

Mike Wenger, chief innovation officer at CRIO, explains how AI can responsibly support data quality and monitoring with proper oversight, and why advancing eSource and EHR systems remains critical to strengthening data integrity and remote trial operations.

Otis Johnson, PhD, MPA, founder and principal consultant at Vantix Operations, discusses why suppliers must shift from ESG activity to decision-grade evidence, and how embedding sustainability into clinical research quality could reshape sponsor expectations, oversight, and supplier selection in the years ahead.

Raja Shankar, VP of machine learning at IQVIA, discusses which AI capabilities sponsors are most likely to adopt first to streamline trial workflows and reduce operational burden, while also highlighting emerging applications that could shape the next phase of clinical trial design.

Jeremy Wyatt, CEO, Ametris, discusses how operational best practices for integrating wearables into oncology trials center on minimizing patient burden through thoughtful workflow design, careful device selection, and early planning to ensure digital measures fit the realities of complex patient populations.

Industry leaders emphasized that accelerating clinical research must go hand in hand with sustained, community-driven strategies to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in clinical trials.

Miriam Dervan, founder & CEO of mdgroup, explains how treating patient experience as a strategic investment—rather than a secondary consideration—changes how sponsors, sites, and operational teams design and deliver clinical trials.

Mike Wenger, chief innovation officer at CRIO, discusses how different site types—from academic medical centers to independent research sites—require distinct eSource approaches, and why aligning technology with site workflows is critical to study execution.

Industry leaders explore areas of opportunity for acceleration as well as how early-phase planning, technology, and collaboration can keep moving the clinical ecosystem forward.

Ken Getz of Tufts CSDD and Eliav Barr of Merck discuss how efficiency, public trust, and AI all fit into the current state of clinical research.

Holly Leslie, vice president of services at Ledger Run, explains why site selectivity is not yet universal, but increasingly driven by larger, more sophisticated sites that are demanding stronger remuneration policies and greater leverage in sponsor relationships.

Otis Johnson, PhD, MPA, founder and principal consultant at Vantix Operations, discusses how ESG is evolving from a reporting exercise into an auditable measure of operational readiness, and what that shift means for sponsor expectations, vendor qualification, and supplier governance discipline.

Raja Shankar, VP of machine learning at IQVIA, explains how AI-driven trial simulation and automation are beginning to influence decision-making across every phase of clinical development.

Discover how evolving clinical trial trends are reshaping patient and site experiences—and the steps sponsors can take to stay ahead—in this conversation with uMotif CEO Steve Rosenberg at SCOPE Summit 2025.

In an interview with Applied Clinical Trials Associate Editor Don Tracy, Shakthi Kumar, chief strategy & business officer, Edetek, provides examples of how Agentic AI can accelerate clinical development.

David MacMurchy, Chief Executive Officer at Lightship, offers some insights into the company's mission toward improving equity and diversity in clinical trials.

In an interview with Applied Clinical Trials Associate Editor Don Tracy, Samuel Salvaggio, Senior Trial Design Lead, One2Treat, discusses the company's main goals for attending the SCOPE Summit, including patient centric trial design.

In an interview with ACT senior editor Andy Studna at SCOPE Summit, Rajneesh Patil, vice president, digital innovation, IQVIA, highlights the impact of artificial intelligence/machine learning in improving outcomes and maintaining safety with its implementation.

In an interview with ACT senior editor Andy Studna at SCOPE Summit, Drew Garty, chief technology officer, clinical data, Veeva Systems, discusses clinical data trends for 2025 and simplifying management processes.

Sepehr Shojaei, VP of Design Solutions at Lightship, talks about how the company works with pharma and contract research organization (CRO) partners to support clinical trials that are patient-first and accessible.

In an interview with ACT senior editor Andy Studna at SCOPE Summit, Pamela Tenaerts, chief scientific officer, Medable, discusses the need for more data around the implementation of clinical technology.

In an interview with Applied Clinical Trials Associate Editor Don Tracy, Shakthi Kumar, chief strategy & business officer, Edetek, discusses how Edetek's R&D cloud system addresses challenges in clinical data management.

In an interview with ACT senior editor Andy Studna at SCOPE Summit, Ashley Davidson, vice president, product lead - sponsor tech strategy, Advarra, highlights the need for more site-centric approaches in study startup.