Empowering patients to overcome challenges in orphan drug development

  • Orphan drug market: Illustrate the unique challenges of developing a drug for rare diseases
  • Patient-focused drug development: Designing patient-centered clinical trials
  • Operational considerations: Endpoint selection; reducing the burden of participation; cost; sites; patient concierge services
  • Collaboration: Focus on the need for collaboration in this space: sponsors, CRO (Clinical Research Organizations), patients, patient advocacy groups, investigators, vendors

Panel Discussion: Considering existing and emerging technology to assist with clinical trials

• Digitalization: what can we digitalize to improve systems and processes
• AI: what can we implement to save time and resource
• Systems: what technology and systems are available and emerging to assist in clinical trials and data management

Moderator: Libbi Rickenbacher, Senior Director of Product Strategy & Partnerships, 4G Clinical
Panelists:
Stephen Lutsch, Senior Director Clinical Trial Digital Innovation, Genmab
Ane Jensen, Principal Data Manager, Zealand Pharma

AI in Risk Based (Quality) Monitoring

Regulatory bodies are promoting Risk Based (Quality) Monitoring as a best practice in clinical trials to correct data quality issues as early as possible in the trial lifecycle.  Since this involves the identification of specific patterns in large datasets, artificial intelligence can support us in doing this efficiently.

  • How can AI find specific patterns that humans might miss
  • Interactions between AI and humans in RB(Q)M
  • Real life examples in respiratory