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Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Proved Remote Monitoring, Other Innovations Work, ICON CEO Says

 
• By Derrick Gingery

Steve Cutler, head of the CRO that conducted Pfizer’s study, tells the Pink Sheet that starting clinical trials in weeks, as opposed to months, should be possible post-pandemic.

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Remote monitoring allowed staff in Japan to check site compliance with enrollment and other protocols in the US and Europe. • Source: Shutterstock

The forced social distancing mandated by the coronavirus may have provided the use case for technology-enabled advancement of clinical trial monitoring and other practices that could see widespread adoption after the pandemic – perhaps best exemplified by the study for the first vaccine authorized in the US.

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