- Exploring how building authentic relationships with patients and local healthcare providers create meaningful opportunities for research participation
- Sharing how consistent engagement, education, and community-first strategies foster trust and drive better outcomes in clinical trials through real-world stories and examples from local outreach events.
- Insights into how inclusive outreach expands trial access, strengthens provider partnerships, and delivers measurable impact for both patients and sponsors
Archives: Agenda
CASE STUDY: Securing capital: funding strategies for biotechs and start up companies
- Navigating the evolving VC landscape and investor expectations
- Leveraging funding options such as grants, strategic partnerships and government programs
- Building strong enough data to convince investors while managing with limited capital
Gamification in clinical trials: A proven path to better engagement, retention, and data integrity
Consistent patient engagement is vital to clinical trial success, yet dropout and non-compliance remain persistent challenges. This session introduces gamification as a scientifically grounded strategy to boost retention, enhance adherence, and streamline trial execution.
- Understand the Science: Explore the behavioral and psychological foundations that make gamification a powerful tool for sustaining patient motivation
- See Real Results: Review real-world case studies where gamification significantly improved retention, compliance, and trial timelines
- Apply Proven Methods: Learn practical strategies and best practices for integrating gamified elements into clinical trial protocols
Lunch and networking break sponsored by ProPharma Group
Direct-to-Patient Shipments of Investigational Products
- We’ll discuss findings from a recent study on site and patient perspectives on Direct-to-Patient shipments of investigational product.
- Explore feasibility across different treatment types, and what investigative sites see as the key benefits and drawbacks.
- Learn how shipping models like site-to-patient (STP) and warehouse-to-patient (WTP) are perceived by sites and how these influence enrollment speed, study start-up, and close-out.
- Understand how patients perceive direct-to-patient shipments, what has worked well and where common challenges arise from the patient’s perspective.
PANEL: Making a success of FSP models for your clinical trial
- Weighing up pros and cons of FSP vs other outsourcing models: is FSP right for your clinical trial?
- Defining the FSP model and understanding when it is the right fit for your organization
- Selecting the right FSP partners to complement internal capabilities
- Optimizing cost efficiency and scalability through flexible FSP partnerships
MODERATOR John Seman, Chief Executive Officer, Revitale Pharma
Chairperson’s closing remarks
PANEL: Preparing for an FDA inspection: common pitfalls and ensuring your study is ready for approval
- Reviewing last year’s FDA feedback on audits: what were the main reasons for failure?
- Tips and tricks to ensure you are ready for inspection
- Simplifying processes in order to prepare for an FDA inspection
MODERATOR Leticia Tarilonte, Vice President, Head of Global Clinical Operations, Pyxis Oncology
From first step to final outcome: Reframing feasibility as an operational strategy
- ow integrating cross-functional risk assessment of the feasibility process can enhance site strategy, clinical oversight, system selection(s) product solutions, and long-term trial delivery
- How to identify feasibility approaches that align with execution, not just enrollment, and how a more connected model helped de-risk a complex study
- Practical strategies to elevate feasibility from a planning task to a foundational element of trial success
- Understand the difference between traditional feasibility and true operational feasibility, and why that distinction matters
- Learn how early cross-functional risk assessments can expose delivery risks before they surface mid-study
- Discover how to align feasibility insights with cross-functional oversight, site strategy, and fit-for-purpose systems with customized solutions from the outset
- Explore how an integrated feasibility-to-delivery model can improve performance in high-complexity, high-variability trials
CASE STUDY: Getting a new site up and running: challenges, opportunities and lessons learned
- Top tips for working with and supporting naïve physicians in order to ensure their success
- The importance of maintaining and growing the pool of investigator sites
- Lessons learned for the future: what should you consider when working with naïve doctors?