Opinion: Clinical trials take a long time to get started. Here’s how to speed it up
The amount of time it takes to get a clinical trial up and running hasn't changed in almost a decade. Here's how to fix that.
Drug makers are seeking a record amount of orphan drug designations from the Food and Drug Administration to help patients with diseases that affect a small percentage of the population. At the same time, there is intense competition for clinical trial sites, especially in the fields of oncology, neuroscience, and rare disease.
But all that work to bring new treatments to market hasnât changed the amount of time it takes to get a clinical I conducted with my colleagues at the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development that was recently published in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science.
