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Finding patients who qualify for a clinical trial has always been one of the hardest parts of running one. In liver disease, particularly MASLD, it is especiall...
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More than three decades after the Huntington's disease gene was cloned in 1993, there is still no approved therapy that alters the course of the disease. Recent...
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When a clinical trial misses its enrollment targets, the instinct is often to look at recruitment through more channels, more outreach, and a bigger advertising...
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In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, host Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Paul Valdmanis, Associate Professor at the University of Washington, abou...
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What four episodes of The Genetics Podcast reveal about the future of Alzheimer’s precision medicine
Alzheimer’s research is entering a new phase. For decades, the field has been shaped by the biology of amyloid plaques and tau tangles. Those remain central to ...
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In the most recent episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Sarah Marzi, Senior Lecturer at King’s College London and Group Leader at the ...
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Precision medicine sponsors invest heavily to identify, educate, screen, consent, genotype, and support rare patients. In many programs, once a trial ends, that...
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UK Biobank and similar resources have made an extraordinary contribution to biomedical research, enabling important advances across genomics, population health,...
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Recruitment in precision medicine and rare disease trials remains constrained by fragmented data, low prevalence populations, and heavy reliance on site-based p...
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On the latest episode of The Genetics Podcast, Patrick Short speaks with Dr. Suzanne Schindler associate professor of neurology at Washington University in St. ...
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