ISCR's Davis On Pandemic Adaptations, Value Of Multi-Regional Trials

Varying Implementation Of India's Trial Waiver Clause

The new chief of the Indian Society for Clinical Research, Sanish Davis, tells Scrip how the Indian trials segment coped amid pandemic upheaval, emphasizing the need for stakeholder “sensitization and socialization” of the concepts of virtual/hybrid trials as part of efforts to mainstream these. The executive also shared his views on India’s trial waiver clause.

Trials And Tribulations Amid COVID-19 • Source: Alamy

The Indian clinical trials sector, like many others, has had to navigate a turbulent 2020 as the pandemic forced a shift in traditional approaches to working amid lock-downs, challenges in patient mobility and re-purposing of clinical sites as COVID-19 care centers.

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