During a public webinar today, the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) will release new recommendations and resources for engaging patients and research sites when planning and conducting mobile clinical trials. By doing so, sponsors, contract research organizations, and other stakeholders can maximize the opportunities of mobile technologies to advance the development of new medical products.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has selected the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) to support a workgroup that will develop a comprehensive plan for assessing the NIH’s new single institutional review board (sIRB) policy. The policy, which became effective in January, requires U.S. sites participating in nonexempt multicenter human subjects research funded by the NIH to use a sIRB for ethical review, with the goal of improving the quality and efficiency of clinical research.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) will unveil new recommendations to speed the use of decentralized clinical trials (DCTs)—trials run through telemedicine and mobile health care providers—today at the DPharm: Disruptive Innovations to Advance Clinical Trials conference in Boston, Mass.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced newly selected representatives for the Patient Engagement Collaborative (PEC) today. The group of 16 patients, caregivers, and patient group representatives will meet with the FDA several times a year to discuss topics such as communication, transparency, and the best ways for patients to participate in the FDA’s regulatory discussions about medical products.

CTTI has been engaged by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support its Patient Engagement Collaborative (PEC), an effort created in partnership with CTTI to bring together members of the patient community to discuss the best ways for patients to participate in the FDA’s regulatory discussions about medical products.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) today released new recommendations and an online tool to help research sponsors, investigators, and institutional review boards develop and review pregnancy testing plans, in an effort to conduct safer, more efficient clinical trials.

Newly released recommendations from the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) have the potential to streamline clinical trials by using registry information. Registries are data collection tools typically used to better understand long-term trends in a specific population, such as patients with a particular disease or patients exposed to a certain treatment.

CTTI’s two new sets recommendations outline innovative approaches to designing clinical trials for HABP/VABP, including early enrollment strategies and the streamlined collection of safety data. CTTI convened multi-stakeholder teams to analyze the challenges associated with HABP/VABP trials and develop the proposed solutions. The feasibility of these new approaches will be tested in an upcoming pilot study, the findings of which are expected to help drive adoption of streamlined practices for antibacterial drug development across the clinical trial enterprise.

CTTI has issued recommendations and an associated toolkit to improve the quality and efficiency of clinical trials by helping sponsors to focus on study activities that are essential to the safety of trial participants and the reliability of study results, and to reduce or eliminate those activities that are not.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) has announced recommendations to streamline Good Clinical Practice (GCP) training of investigators who participate in clinical trials.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) has named new members to its Executive Committee, expanding the breadth of expertise for leaders advising CTTI on its strategy for transforming clinical research.

Research for diabetes is far more focused on drug therapies than preventive measures, and tends to exclude children and older people who have much to gain from better disease management, according to a Duke Medicine study.

A collaborative research team established by the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) created a new tool and recommendations to improve the efficiency and quality of multi-center clinical trials.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) has named a 14-member Executive Committee, resetting CTTI’s strategic direction, and ensuring that the organization informs and facilitates meaningful improvements to clinical trial design and conduct.

Results from a study assessing how clinical trial quality is monitored in the U.S. reveal a variety of monitoring approaches, the choice of which appears to relate to the type of organizational sponsor for the trial.

The Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative (CTTI) has named a 12-member Executive Board that will oversee its activities.