Clinical Trial System 'Broken,' But Modernization Long Way Away – Woodcock

CDER Director says current system is stifles innovation, calls for integration of health care and trial process.

Scientist conducting a laboratory experiment in a cancer research facility in the United States, 1951.

Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) Director Janet Woodcock described the current clinical trial system as "broken" in that it discourages new drug development, but admitted that it will likely be a long time before modernization of the system can take place.

Speaking Sept. 20 at a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine meeting on real-world evidence, Woodcock stressed the need...

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