Clinical development

Clinical development is the trial programme a candidate medicine passes through: first-in-human safety studies, then dose-finding, then the larger comparisons against existing treatment or placebo that a regulator will read.

We report on how these programmes are designed, what their endpoints actually measure, and the difference between a trial that shows a treatment works and one that shows it works better than what patients already have.

Drug Approvals

The Drug Development Process Explained

The drug development process from laboratory research to patients: translational research, decision gates, who does what, and how a medicine reaches clinical use.