Applied Clinical Trials, June 2020 Issue (PDF)

Why a fundamental reimagining of how clinical studies operate is still necessary to achieve a true paradigm shift—and shed the cycle of reliance on incremental gains.

In this episode of the Applied Clinical Trials Podcast, David Nickerson, head of clinical quality management at EMD Serono; and Arlene Lee, director of product management, data quality & risk management solutions at Medidata, discuss the newest ICH E6(R3) GCP guidelines as well as how TransCelerate and ACRO have partnered to help stakeholders better acclimate to these guidelines.

The FDA has granted orphan status to Arcus Biosciences’ CD73 inhibitor quemliclustat for metastatic pancreatic cancer, as the global PRISM-1 Phase III trial nears full enrollment following promising survival data from ARC-8.

Results from the Phase III EMBARK trial show that in combination with leuprolide, Xtandi (enzalutamide) demonstrated a statistically significant and clinically meaningful overall survival benefit in men with non-metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer and high-risk biochemical recurrence.

Results from the Phase III QWINT-1 trial show that Eli Lilly’s once-weekly insulin efsitora is noninferior to once-daily glargine in reducing HbA1c among insulin-naïve adults with type 2 diabetes, offering a simplified fixed-dose regimen with fewer hypoglycemic events and less treatment burden.