Investigative Sites

Learn how the lack of integration across platforms creates complexity for sites and why holistic solutions are key to reducing data entry and system burden.

At the 2025 SCRS Global Site Solutions Summit, industry experts discussed how sites can balance culture, staffing, and training while expanding across multiple locations.

Explore how stronger collaboration and closed feedback loops can improve communication, change management, and site engagement in clinical trials.

Steve Rosenberg, CEO, uMotif, discusses the challenges sites face with eCOA, eConsent, and ePRO platforms and the support needed to reduce technical burdens.

Modernizing Clinical Trials: A Site-Centered Roadmap for the Future Simplifying startup, empowering sites through networks, and adopting evidence-based site selection frameworks can address enrollment bottlenecks, reduce dropout, and strengthen trial efficiency across the research ecosystem.

Michel van Harten, MD, CEO, myTomorrows; and Kyle McAllister, co-founder, CEO, Trially, discuss how artificial intelligence can reduce barriers for underrepresented patients and streamline prescreening and outreach to support clinical research participation.

In this video interview, Umesh Chaudhari, executive medical director and global program head of the C5 programs at Regeneron, describes how double-blind double-dummy design, site reminders, and patient engagement measures ensured high adherence with quarterly subcutaneous dosing in the NIMBLE trial.

Clinical trial enrollment and retention challenges, coupled with limited site resources, highlight the need for stronger site support, collaboration, and patient-centered trial models.

In this video interview, Umesh Chaudhari, executive medical director and global program head of the C5 programs at Regeneron, describes how double-blind double-dummy dosing, standardized assessments, and site training ensured protocol adherence and data integrity in the NIMBLE trial.

How decentralized clinical trial designs and smart data integration are transforming the patient experience.

A new systems-based framework helps sponsors and CROs move beyond prediction to understand why site selection succeeds or fails, enabling targeted interventions that boost recruitment, data quality, and trial efficiency.

Craig Lipset, co-chair, Decentralized Trials & Research Alliance (DTRA), and Kyle McAllister, co-founder, CEO, Trially, discuss how research sites are navigating political funding pressures, adapting to NIH budget constraints, and leveraging new cost-containment strategies to sustain clinical research.

In this video interview, Caroline Potts, general manager of sites and patient services at Medical Research Network (MRN), explains why trial inclusivity requires shared responsibility across sponsors, CROs, sites, and advocacy groups.

In this video interview, Caroline Potts, general manager of sites and patient services at Medical Research Network (MRN), highlights how listening to site insights and adopting flexible models such as temporary community-based clinics, can reduce patient travel burdens, improve enrollment efficiency, and stretch trial budgets further.

In this video interview, Caroline Potts, general manager of sites and patient services at Medical Research Network (MRN), outlines how rigid budgeting and limited sponsor-site dialog often block innovative patient-centric solutions, stressing the need for more collaborative approaches to enable community engagement and flexible trial delivery.

In this video interview, Caroline Potts, general manager of sites and patient services at Medical Research Network (MRN), discusses the challenges of achieving true operational flexibility in clinical trials—highlighting how SOPs, staffing, and budget constraints often limit site adaptability and contribute to staff burnout.

In this Q&A, Rohit Nambisan, CEO of Lokavant, and Jonathan Crowther, head of predictive analytics, Pfizer, explore how AI is transforming study feasibility, regulatory review, and trial execution.

As clinical trials become more complex, success depends on early collaboration, thoughtful protocol design, and practical strategies to manage risk, reduce delays, and support patients.

In this video interview, Luke Wilson, senior director, biotech, pharma services at Thermo Fisher Scientific, explains how clinical operations teams can use remote monitoring and connected technologies to reduce site burden, respond faster to emerging data, and improve both patient safety and trial outcomes.

In this video interview, Kate Gallin Heffernan, life sciences attorney at Epstein Becker Green, outlines how even unenforced executive orders can influence federal funding decisions, prompting sponsors and sites to alter public trial messaging to avoid informal scrutiny.

In this video interview, Ramita Tandon, chief biopharma officer at Walgreens, outlines her five-year vision for community-based research, calling for deeper industry alignment, infrastructure expansion, and patient-first design principles.

In this video interview, Ramita Tandon, chief biopharma officer at Walgreens, offers practical insights for sponsors and CROs exploring partnerships with retail research sites, emphasizing collaboration, innovation, and shared accountability.

In this video interview, Ramita Tandon, chief biopharma officer at Walgreens, discusses the operational investments required to activate pharmacies as clinical trial sites, including staff training, regulatory coordination, and patient-facing technology.

In this video interview, Kyle McAllister, co-founder, CEO, Trially, shares real-world examples of AI transforming clinical trial recruitment.

In this video interview, Kyle McAllister, co-founder, CEO, Trially, explains how AI is stepping in to fill staffing gaps in clinical research—streamlining patient identification, real-time feasibility assessments, and automated prescreening to help sites stay operational and efficient despite budget cuts.