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Show them the money: a multi-stakeholder perspective on reforming clinical trial participant compensation

Clinical trial participant compensation is badly overdue for thoughtful reform. The first step: generating consensus across the various stakeholders, including patients, who make up the research ecosystem.
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  1. Gunnar Esiason

    1. RA Ventures, Boston, MA, USA.

  2. Angela Pontius

    1. RA Ventures, Boston, MA, USA.

  3. Luke Gelinas

    1. Advara, Columbia, MD, USA.

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Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 23, 881-882 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41573-024-00107-2

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