The goals of a Phase 2 clinical trial are to determine if the treatment is effective and to gather more safety data. Researchers use the data from Phase 2 trials to refine their research questions ...

Clinical trials involving new drugs are commonly classified into three main phases (1, 2 and 3) but there is also a preclinical phase and a fourth phase. The phases of clinical drug research are the ...

An 8-year-old boy living in a town outside Glasgow, Scotland, experienced a frightening bacterial meningitis epidemic in which five of his best friends died, one of his friends lost his hearing in ...

Phase 1 Clinical Research Coordinators. Clinical research coordinators (CRC) work closely with the principal investigator (PI), the expert who is conducting the clinical trial. The CRC is a liaison ...

What are the Four Phases of Clinical Research? “Clinical research is unique in that clinical trials have specific, designated phases,” Dr. Saratsis explained.

In the second article in this series summarizing clinical trials, we will explore the meaning of another term you may often see when reading about cancer research: “phase.” Cancer clinical trials ...

Although the Food and Drug Administration approves new cancer drugs each year, the process of testing and approval is lengthy and complex. Most clinical research of a new drug progresses in an orderly ...

At the HUMANOID Center of Research Excellence, the translational arm of the Institute for Network Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine, founding co-directors Soumita Das, Ph.D., and Pradipta ...