The Clinical Trials Guru

Founder of goBalto Talks About How His Company Saves Pharma Millions on Clinical Trials Startup!

Administrator — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:18:32 +0000

We were able to sit down with Jae Chung today, the founder and CEO of an awesome startup called goBalto. goBalto focuses on improving study startup experience, and ultimately allows for clinical trials to start up and initiate much more rapidly while at the same time, saving Pharmaceutical sponsors and CRO’s lots of money in the process! This was a really insightful interview not only into the world of clinical trials, but also gives us a glimpse into the mind of a successful entrepreneur.

News Roundup #3: Women in Clinical Trials, Your Questions and More!

Administrator — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:07:38 +0000

Categories: Featured

Tags: business, cancer, ethics, female participation, news, news roundtable, oncology, orphan drugs, recruitment, research professionals, safety, women

In this week’s news roundtable, we discussed: Women in Clinical Trials Orphan Drug Status and FDA A Viewer’s question Drug Recalls and more! Let us know your thoughts.

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I Walk You Through Your First Clinical Trial Visit

Administrator — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:55:25 +0000

We receive tons of questions here at The Clinical Trials Guru and today’s video is a direct response to a viewer’s question regarding what happens at your first clinical trial visit, also known as a screening visit. In this video I refer to a specific chapter from my ebook which you can get for free here. Anyways, please let me know if this walk through was helpful at all in relieving any of your anxiety regarding what you can expect at your first clinical trial study visit.

What Is EDC in Clinical Trials?

Administrator — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:01:48 +0000

Today we answered a question from a viewer regarding electronic data capture systems (EDC) in clinical trials and what these are. Like we mentioned in the video, we’ve done an interview on this with an EDC pro and can be found here. Basically, EDC systems allow the research clinics to electronically upload all clinical trial data collected from the clinic and simultaneously allow the study Sponsor to analyze, check into, and manage the data as they gather further information from the study.

Projecting Revenues and Expenses At Your Clinical Trial Site

Administrator — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:46:37 +0000

Categories: Featured

Tags: business, compensation, expenses, income, new sites, profits, research clinics, research professionals, revenue, sites

In today’s video, Dan answers a question from a viewer regarding managing revenues and expenses at a research clinic. The question further gets into how to project future earnings and revenues at a new clinical trial facility that this viewer plans to open. This video is great for anyone currently in charge of handling business [...]

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Mandatory Clinical Trial Participation? News Roundtable #2

Administrator — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:36:43 +0000

In this week’s clinical trial news roundtable, Don and I tackle a few issues such as a proposal for mandatory clinical trial participation in vaccine trials (which we think is ridiculous by the way) as well as Investigator turnover in clinical trials, Video games and social gaming in healthcare and clinical trials, Paula Deen and Novo Nordisk selling recipes instead of drugs and much much more. Check out the links to the topics we discussed below:
(mandatory clinical trial participation)
(games and healthcare)
(J&J Risperdal settlement)
(Paula Deen and diabetes recipes)