How BMS Is Tackling Clinical Trial Diversity

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The company’s director of clinical trial diversity strategy, Lorena Kuri, talked to Scrip about how she became interested in trial diversity and what BMS is doing to increase it.

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Like all the drug makers that have lately made a priority of improving clinical trial diversity, Bristol Myers Squibb Company knows it faces numerous obstacles, some of which could take significant investment to overcome. Meeting that challenge is all in a day’s work for BMS’ director of clinical trial diversity strategy, Lorena Kuri.

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