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Grand Rounds December 15, 2023: Diversifying Clinical Trials: A Path Forward (Roxana Mehran, MD, FACC, FAHA, MSCAI, FESC)

Rethinking Clinical Trials

Yet enrollment of ethnic minorities in NIH clinical trials and for trials studying approved devices and drugs remains low. Further efforts are urgently needed to increase diversity in the cardiology workforce, which will improve clinical trial diversity and cardiovascular health for all.

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Heart and Kidney Health for All: Expanding Cardiovascular Clinical Trials to Include CKD Patients

XTalks

Srivastava highlights the disheartening facts related to mortality including that a CKD patient is more likely to die from CVD before ever having progressed to requiring dialysis, a life-saving therapy for those with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD), emphasizing the urgent need for increased research in this area. 18: 2918-2926.

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Clinical research business continues to expand in US

Drug Discovery World

Centricity Research has acquired North Carolina-based Lucas Research, making it the fifth clinical research company to join Centricity since it launched in November 2021. With this acquisition, Centricity now has more than 35 clinical research sites, reaching 8.5

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Velocity Clinical Research Expands to Poland

Velocity Clinical Research

Velocity Clinical Research, the leading multi-specialty clinical sites business, announced it has expanded into Poland, acquiring its first site, ClinMedica Research. The site is recognized as one of the best research facilities in the country by Sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs).

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Velocity Hosts Global CARE Council Summit

Velocity Clinical Research

Velocity recently convened more than 40 leaders from around the world for a summit on Councils to Accelerate Research Excellence (CARE). The summit focused on Velocity’s Diabetes + Obesity, MASH, Vaccine, Cardiology, and Women’s Health CARE Councils, along with a few areas in development.

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Cardiovascular Clinical Trials with Patient Diversity: Challenges and Considerations

XTalks

Cardiovascular clinical trials need to have a diversity plan because there can be a difference in disease burden when comparing people of different race and ethnicity. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is emphasizing the need for diversity in clinical trials. In the same webinar, Dr. Hansie M.

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STAT+: Pharmalittle: Pfizer scaling back early-stage research into rare diseases; BioNTech and U.K. partner on cancer trials

STAT News

… Pfizer told employees it plans to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies , Barron’s reports. Among the assets on the chopping block is a gene therapy manufacturing facility in Durham, N.C.,