Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Proved Remote Monitoring, Other Innovations Work, ICON CEO Says
Executive Summary
Steve Cutler, head of the CRO that conducted Pfizer’s study, tells the Pink Sheet that starting clinical trials in weeks, as opposed to months, should be possible post-pandemic.
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