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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. There are several strategies that will help increase diversity in CVD trials. Increasing diversity in trial leadership is one of the most important strategies to increase diversity among RCT participants.

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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 million geographically and ethnically-diverse patients.

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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.,

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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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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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Shifting the Narrative on Clinical Research at a Nevada Health System

ACRP blog

This expanded clinical research opportunities for patients as a core pillar of the affiliation’s mission, with the goal of providing access to novel treatments for diagnoses in addition to standard of care. An important step was a review of the state of clinical trial awareness at the time of the affiliation agreement.