The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting clinical research in much of the world. To understand how the crisis is affecting the management of ongoing oncology clinical trials and the planning of future trials, we used a combination of surveys and interviews of oncology clinical investigators globally and analyses of data from IQVIA and ClinicalTrials.gov on oncology clinical trials to investigate challenges, risks and contingencies. Here, we present data and insights from this investigation in the hope that they could be useful to those involved in oncology clinical trials.
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Acknowledgements
CRI and IQVIA are immensely grateful to all the investigators and institutional research staff, including the Oncology Clinical Trials Project Managers at IQVIA, for providing their valuable time and insights for this publication. The authors also want to thank M. Aitken, Senior Vice President and Executive Director of the IQVIA Institute for Human Data Science; C. Chang, Chief Medical Officer and Regulatory Affairs, IQVIA China; E. Groves, Vice President, Strategic Drug Development IQVIA; and P. Fredette, Strategic Site Networks Director, Oncology IQVIA.
Competing Interests
V.M.H.-L is a scientific advisor and has equity interest in Fx Biopharma. The other authors declare no competing interests.