Presented at "Outsourcing in Clinical Trials West" on February 6, 2024

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A Patient’s Approach to Innovative Clinical Research

• Room for improvement: Current Critiques of medical innovation
  • As outlined by the FDA's Janet Woodcock and Dr. Azra Raza
• Hackathons: Using Gamified Tumor Boards to advance Research on particular patients
  • Oncologic clinical trials, where one researcher looks at "n" patients, fail 96.5% of the time.
  • A better building block is a "tumor board" where n doctors look at one pateint.
  • We describe a 2018 "hackathon" consisting of 17 competing tumor boards (each with n doctors) looking at one patient.
  • The "winning" team had the best research process.
• Research Agents and Digital Twins: Next generation environments for automated data sharing and research
  • This can be autometed. Human teams are digitized using LLM technology.