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Gain insight into how principal investigator scarcity, frequent protocol amendments, and uneven site performance undermine enrollment and extend timelines.

In today’s ACT Brief, we highlight new insights from TransCelerate on streamlining clinical data to reduce burden, explore how Phastar is using technology to accelerate drug development, and review Takeda’s seven-year dengue vaccine results confirming long-term efficacy and safety.

Seven-year results from the global TIDES study show sustained protection, strong safety, and enhanced efficacy with a booster dose, reinforcing Qdenga’s role in dengue prevention amid rising global infection rates.

In a decentralized, digitally enabled clinical trial environment, conventional approaches to data analysis are evolving as sponsors utilize technological tools in new ways to ensure compliance with global standards, mitigate risk, and bring life-changing therapies to patients faster.

In this episode of the ACT Podcast, Jeneen Donadeo, executive director of portfolio management at TransCelerate, and Laura Galuchie, senior director and TransCelerate program lead at Merck, discuss the findings from a recent TransCelerate and Tufts CSDD study revealing that nearly one-third of data collected in Phase III trials is non-essential. They explore why trial complexity continues to grow despite industry efforts toward efficiency and share strategies for reducing data burden while maintaining compliance.

In today’s ACT Brief, we explore how Eli Lilly’s orforglipron could become the first oral GLP-1 therapy reviewed under FDA’s new national priority program, and examine emerging regulatory and ethical frameworks shaping bispecific antibody research in oncology.

In this special recap of the most recent SCRS Global Site Solutions Summit, we highlight insights gained from KOLs on-site that emphasize the importance of communication and collaboration between sites and sponsors/CROs.

Explore how AstraZeneca’s immuno-oncology strategy focuses on improving survival in hard-to-treat cancers and moving checkpoint inhibitors into curative-intent settings.

Ethical and regulatory considerations for safeguarding participants in bispecific antibody clinical trials, and best practices designed to optimize their success.

Learn how perioperative immunotherapy with Imfinzi is addressing long-standing unmet needs in gastric and GEJ cancers and paving the way for a new standard of care.

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.

Explore how Dash Solutions is transforming clinical trial payments through its dashClinical platform, improving site efficiency, participant engagement, and overall trial management in this conversation with Katie Anne Oden, VP, sales, at the 2025 SCRS Global Site Solutions Summit.

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.

Today’s ACT Brief explores how eConsent is modernizing participant engagement, highlights new data on global representation in breast cancer trials, and examines Moderna’s decision to halt its Phase III mRNA-1647 program after missing key endpoints.

Examining how shifting leadership patterns in breast cancer research signal growing international participation—and the continued need for broader equity in global trials.

As decentralized and hybrid trial models expand, eConsent is emerging as a critical tool for improving participant understanding, reducing site burden, and strengthening data integrity through digital automation, accessibility, and regulatory compliance.

In today’s ACT Brief, we revisit key insights from SCOPE Summit 2025 on AI and pragmatic trials, examine Genentech’s Phase III vamikibart data in uveitic macular edema, and highlight MJH Life Sciences’ acquisition of BPD Healthcare—expanding the bridge from discovery to delivery.