Jun 22, 2020   SOURCE: PR NewsWire

The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Clinical Development - What the New Landscape Will Look Like, Upcoming Webinar Hosted by Xtalks

TORONTO, June 22, 2020 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- With the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, we all have 'lost our innocence' by learning that an unexpected, novel infectious agent has a dramatic and, for today's generations, unprecedented impact on lives, society, economy and as a consequence, on the domain of clinical drug development. Clearly, the world 'post-COVID-19' will be different from the world where we came from, but what impact can we expect, and what changes may last?

This webinar will start exploring clinical drug development in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 being a new entity to deal with, by addressing the questions: 

    --  What is known about SARS-CoV-2, its epidemiology and how it compares to
        earlier coronaviruses? What is known about COVID-19, the unexpected
        variation in its clinical presentation, in adults and in children, and
        the short- and long-term effects?
    --  How can active infection with SARS-CoV-2 be reliably measured and how
        can previous infection be proved by measuring immune response? How can
        we find our way in a myriad of tests that are becoming available in a
        rapid response setting, with limited, if any, regulatory oversight?
    --  Now that SARS-CoV-2 is amongst us, how should groups proceed with early
        clinical development programs, including first-in-human studies, whilst
        minimizing risk to study participants, maximizing informative value of
        the study and in compliance with all rules and regulations?
    --  COVID-19 has pressure tested clinical drug developers and regulators,
        and has brought about ad-hoc changes in regulatory approaches. What
        COVID-19 imposed regulatory changes can be expected to be long-lasting
        and here to stay?

Join Radboud van Trigt, PhD, Director of Bioanalytical Science - Biomarkers, PRA Health Sciences, Gregory P. Licholai, MD, MBA, Yale School of Management, Chief Medical Officer, PRA Health Sciences and Arwa Shurrab, Senior Director, Regulatory Strategy, PRA Health Sciences in a live webinar on Monday, July 13, 2020 at 11am EDT (4pm BST/UK).

For more information or to register for this event, visit The Impact of COVID-19 on Early Clinical Development - What the New Landscape Will Look Like.

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