Children’s Tumor Foundation CEO Annette Bakker discusses what non-profit organizations uniquely bring to clinical research and new financial models sustaining their contribution. Plus, host Deborah Borfitz rounds up the latest news in clinical research: new funding approaches for ALS clinical trials, spatial biology to match patients to trials, a bio map of lung cancer tumor changes, improving diabetes treatment outcomes for patients in China, and more.

Show Notes

News Roundup

Fund of Adaptive Royalties

• Research article in PLOS One

TACIT algorithm matching patients to trials

• Article in Nature Communications

Mapping biomarkers linked to treatment resistance

• Press release on the City of Hope website

Pragmatic diabetes trial in China

• Paper about China-specific genetic risk score in Diabetologia
• News of trial launch on the University of Exeter website

Cough medicine to slow dementia?

• Study in JAMA Neurology

Beating the EARL hurdles in the UK

• Study in JAMA Network Open

Guest

Annette Bakker, Ph.D., CEO of the Children's Tumor Foundation

• Article in Clinical Research News

The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News senior writer, Deborah Borfitz, welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.