In Episode Three of the Syneos Health Dedicated Dialogue podcast series, we uncover how the proliferation of new digital health technologies, telemedicine and mobile nursing services are helping fuel novel clinical trials. These range from community-based studies, which are administered through PCPs, local health centers and outpatient facilities in lieu of academic research centers, to hybrid and fully virtual trials designed around patients in their homes, with or without a synthetic control arm replacing patients on placebos. Additionally, we share new insights about how trial sponsors discovering new ways to engage participants, enhance data capture and devise pathways to put patients at the center of clinical trials across the biopharmaceutical product development continuum.
FDA reportedly shelves its Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher program, Eli Lilly breaks ground on a $3.5 billion Pennsylvania manufacturing site for next-generation obesity treatments, and Parexel’s Stacy Hurt on how small protocol decisions can become enrollment and retention barriers.
Every protocol decision affects patients, and only those with lived disease experience can identify true burden — from invasive biopsies to daily trial demands.
Moderna lays out an oncology-driven growth plan at its 2026 Analyst Day, Pfizer and Blackstone sign a co-funding deal worth up to $1.5 billion for berobenatide, and Parexel’s Stacy Hurt on how patients’ use of AI is reshaping sponsor communication.
Pfizer and Blackstone Life Sciences sign a co-funding deal in which Blackstone is set to provide up to $1.5 billion through 2028 to advance berobenatide.
