UK: Groundbreaking £50m MRC [Medical Research Council] centre will overhaul clinical trials

Andy

Andy

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A new initiative aims to accelerate the trial of new medicines for improved patient care.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Clinical Trial Innovation in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) will receive up to £50 million.

The funding will last over 14 years with the ambition of transforming the clinical trial landscape.

The centre plans to shake-up approaches to clinical trial design and delivery by developing pioneering new ways to speed up the process and drive improvements in treatment and recovery.

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Andy said:
A new initiative aims to accelerate the trial of new medicines for improved patient care.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre of Research Excellence (CoRE) in Clinical Trial Innovation in partnership with the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) will receive up to £50 million.

The funding will last over 14 years with the ambition of transforming the clinical trial landscape.

The centre plans to shake-up approaches to clinical trial design and delivery by developing pioneering new ways to speed up the process and drive improvements in treatment and recovery.

Read more
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I'm struggling to read long stuff at the moment but I couldn't see anything in the article that really explained how they were going to do things differently.
 
Sasha said:
I'm struggling to read long stuff at the moment but I couldn't see anything in the article that really explained how they were going to do things differently.
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They link to this:
www.mrcctu.ucl.ac.uk

Multi-Arm Multi-Stage (MAMS) platform trials | MRC Clinical Trials Unit at UCL

www.mrcctu.ucl.ac.uk www.mrcctu.ucl.ac.uk

It’s just multi-arm trials. Which need more funding upfront because it more cost-intensive to test multiple things at once, even though you save money in total if you were going to test all regardless.
 
MAMS were also discussed on this podcast if anyone wants to learn more
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Thread 'The Mega Trial - accelerating drug trials in Parkinson’s'

Movers and Shakers is a podcast about Parkinson’s, this episode is about EJS ACT-PD which is a multi-arm, multi-stage (MAMS) trial platform aimed ay accelerating drug trials for Parkinson’s

How do you run clinical trials that maximise the efficiency for patients, clinicians and drugs developers? That's the challenge being addressed by world's largest ever clinical trial of Parkinson's medications. To discuss this new, and potentially extremely effective, way of runnings multiple trials simultaneously, the Movers & Shakers are joined at the pub by some of the core team from the...
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