All articles by Chris Lo

Designing a playbook for combination and digital health trials

Ensuring quality and compliance for combination products and advanced device platform technologies is a complex process that frequently evolves with…
AI in healthcare: key highlights in 2021

In common with virtually every other sector, the healthcare industry is being steadily transformed by artificial intelligence (AI) and machine…
Global warning: pharma’s role in the climate crisis

Despite the distrust with which the pharma industry tends to be viewed by the general public, it remains an industry…
Waning Covid-19 vaccine efficacy: what does the data show?

By Andrew Hillman The Pfizer vaccine’s protection against severe cases of Covid-19 reduces over time, according to data released by…
Video: how smart, integrated tech platforms can streamline complex cancer studies

As clinical trials in oncology try to incorporate technology more efficiently in their day-to-day operations, its uniform implementation across study…

The accelerating use of virtual trials – have your say in our survey

Take part in GlobalData’s decentralised clinical trials survey here. Since early March 2020, a significant number of companies, including sponsors,…
Covid-19: lessons learned across the life sciences

More than a year has passed since national lockdowns, social distancing and face masks became a regular feature of life…
A case for streamlined RFIs in the pharmaceutical industry

By Francis Dumont, senior director, drug product supply external strategy, pharmaceutical sciences, Pfizer Inc. The pharmaceutical industry continues to leverage…
Virtual trials: welcome to the present

By Alexander O'Leary It seems like for years the virtual clinical trial has been the future, and it is perhaps…
The impact of Covid-19 on the global clinical supply chain

By Amy Malkani It goes without saying that the coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on economies and industries…