New EU Clinical Trials System Could Support Patient Recruitment

The EU research-based pharma industry is exploring partnerships to develop an app that would extract data from the new Clinical Trial Information System and convert it into lay format to guide patients interested in participating in studies. 

 Young businessman working on a virtual screen of the future and sees the inscription: Clinical trial
Many companies have invested in their own clinical trial finder platforms, but patients find this landscape fragmented • Source: Alamy

The EU clinical trials portal, which is set to go live on 31 January 2022, is expected to usher in a new era of transparency, with vast amounts of clinical trial data being made public that may be put to new uses to benefit patients.

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