Communication Skills for Monitors—A Vital Training Opportunity

At ASCO 2025, clinical operations leaders gained critical insights into how AI tools, bispecific antibodies, and evolving treatment paradigms are reshaping trial design, endpoint selection, and patient stratification.

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.

In this video interview, Kyle McAllister, co-founder, CEO, Trially, discusses how recent federal funding cuts are likely to undermine research focused on underrepresented populations, and why long-term investment in community-based studies is essential to closing persistent health equity gaps.

Although the SYMMETRY Phase IIb trial of the FGF21 analogue efruxifermin did not meet its primary endpoint at 36 weeks, extended 96-week data suggest potential benefits in fibrosis reduction and liver health in patients with compensated cirrhosis due to MASH, supporting continued evaluation in Phase III studies.