exist Invest in PhamaTech At last month’s conference, five startups shared their visions for how they seek to reshape clinical trials as part of the Pitch Perfect competition. As a reminder, the following are participating companies.
host: AS Dr Charisse Litchman, Chief Medical Officer
The startup’s platform, designed to quantify the progression of chronic neurological diseases, employs a gamified mobile app 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. It also 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.
host: Jay Hawley, Founder and CEO
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.
host: Pedro Marton Pereira, Chief Executive Officer
The business provides a platform for decentralized clinical trials that can unlock patient recruitment in primary healthcare.
host: Nathan Coase, Research Analyst
The business enables biopharmaceutical companies to conduct 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.
host: James Hammett, CEO
The company’s 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.
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
The final winner is: BeCareLink
Here’s why the judges chose BeCareLink:
In an email, the judges explained: “Reimagining the MS health experience from the ground up—while crafting a compelling product—and focusing on clinical validation are critical to improving outcomes and quality of life for patients with this chronic condition. Important.” . “Taking a platform approach by connecting the patient-provider care continuum to a variety of new additional therapeutic areas will surely support your continued growth. Congratulations BeCareLink!”
BeCareLink will be featured in an upcoming MedCity News profile.
Our next Pitch Perfect competition will be at Invest in digital health Conference in Dallas on September 28. The application window has been extended. To review the standard and apply it, Click here.
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