designing clinical trials

designing clinical trials

How clinical trials are designed.
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Transcript

[INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC] KYLE HOLEN: Hi. Ever wonder how a clinical trial comes together? Well, you've come to the right place. Welcome to AbbVie's Design Lab. Let me show you around.

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My name is Kyle Holen, and I'm the Head of the Development Design Center. What we're doing in the Development Design Center is we're using big data, digital technologies, and tons of other health technologies and predictive analytics to help teams make better decisions in their clinical programs.

This is an interactive wall where we can brainstorm and we can engage with our colleagues all over the world to help us design better trials. And we can solve some of the results of our predictive analytics.

Let me give you an example. This is a real team coming together for what we call a jam session, session where key stakeholders for a study make decisions on the study design and the study execution. They'll talk about how many people should be enrolled, how many sites we need, which countries should participate, and much more.

The person leading this meeting is called the Development Design Center Director, and he is including people in this jam session from all over the world. At the end of these jam sessions, the team has all the information that they need to move forward on executing the clinical trial.

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Thanks for joining me on the tour.

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