Only a small fraction of the drugs developed in laboratories ever make it to the clinical trial stage. Before a clinical trial begins, the drug must be evaluated in pre-clinical laboratory studies ...

At the execution stage, many logistical challenges need to be overcome to maintain the quality and integrity of trials. For example, distribution of study material and shipment of biospecimens can ...

Innovative strategists in big pharma are exploring a new way to claw back some of these costs, and expand the number of new therapies that go through to the development and clinical trial stage.

The drug manufacturer will no longer study and test danuglipron after a participant in a clinical trial was injured.