Why Clinical Trials Keep Missing the Patients They Are Supposed to Help, with Lisa Sonneborn
Most clinical trial eligibility criteria are written by people who have never run a site. Lisa Sonneborn has run one for 15 years. She built the first stand-alone clinical trial facility in Upstate New York, focused on Alzheimer's and NASH research. Watched sponsor after sponsor send protocols with visit schedules, lab windows, and exclusion lists that were scientifically defensible and operationally unworkable. She would look at the eligibility section and know within the first three line items whether the trial was designed for the patients or for the data. In 2024, she co-founded Ichor…
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