Drug developers want to accelerate the recruitment and retention of clinical trial participants. This is an area ripe for innovation, where needs and wants intersect.exist MedCity INVEST PharmaTecha free virtual conference scheduled for July 26, the Pitch Perfect competition will highlight startups developing solutions to support innovative clinical trials.
The Pitch Perfect event will give startups the opportunity to showcase their innovative approaches to clinical trials to a team of investment judges who will ask each entrepreneur in attendance a series of questions. The winner will receive an editorial profile published on MedCity News.
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The Pitch Perfect judges include:
- Cris De Luca, Digital Partner, Sanofi Ventures
- Jessica Federer, Partner, Boston Millennium Partners
- Joel Krikston, Managing Director of Venture Capital and Head of Strategic Innovation Alliances, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund
- Maxim Owen, Venture Partner, Wavemaker Thirty Sixty Health
Here are the participating startups:
BeCareLink is a platform to quantify the progression of chronic neurological diseases using a gamified mobile application for artificial intelligence neurological assessments. Delayed detection of subtle changes in neurological function can negatively impact patient outcomes. The BeCareLink platform enables remote quantitative assessment of neural function through Al analysis. The analysis uses data from gamified mobile apps and other digital biomarkers, such as novel lung devices. This analysis provides HCPs and researchers with a more sensitive and comprehensive neurological assessment earlier, faster, more reliable and more convenient than standard clinical assessments. In studies at Yale and Weill-Cornell, the solution has demonstrated convergence with traditional neurological examinations.
climbing The platform puts pilot runs on track, so research teams don’t need a massive operations team to succeed. Climb’s task-oriented dashboard keeps research flowing, and their ecosystem of partners powers clinics large and small. By partnering with Climb, companies can more easily conduct clinical trials in more markets than ever before, helping companies bring new treatments to market faster.
EpHealth is a decentralized clinical trial platform that unlocks patient recruitment in primary healthcare.
people oriented Enabling biopharmaceutical companies to unlock better research for all of humanity, faster. HumanFirst moves the industry forward by incorporating the planning, integration and analysis of wearables and sensors into clinical trials. HumanFirst has helped 22 of the world’s 25 largest pharmaceutical companies identify the correct clinical measures and cross-referenced proposed digital measures against thousands of past studies. It also helps companies hone the right wearables with a searchable database updated daily, containing evidence on more than 1,500 digital sensors and nearly 10,000 different measures.
by Vistim Labs Inc. High-resolution cognitive monitoring helps pharmaceutical companies develop treatments for neurological disorders. The lack of sensitive, objective methods to measure cognitive function in patients with neurological disorders makes clinical trials and drug development processes lengthy, costly, and often yields low-quality data. Vistim Labs solves this problem with CASBA – a high-resolution cognitive monitoring product used to identify and enroll early-stage disease participants and provide meaningful support for clinical trials. The CASBA AI Biomarker System uses stimulated brain activity to directly and objectively measure real-time cognitive changes that were previously imperceptible. The system is ready for research and validation studies.
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