The Scope of Things
The Scope of Things podcast explores clinical research and its possibilities, promise, and pitfalls. Clinical Research News Senior Writer welcomes guests who are visionaries closest to the topics, but who can still see past their piece of the puzzle. Focusing on game-changing trends and out-of-the-box operational approaches in the clinical research field, the Scope of Things podcast is your no-nonsense, insider’s look at clinical research today.
Episodes
46 episodes
Episode: 45 - Doug Bain on Streamlining Clinical Trials
Doug Bain, founder and consulting partner of ClinFlo, discusses his proposed regulatory blueprint for digital trials in the latest episode of The Scope of Things podcast. With host Deborah Borfitz, Bain delves into his strategy for turning 21 C...
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Episode 45
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Episode 44 - SCOPE Europe 2025 on AI Literacy Training, Reducing Excess Data Collection, Combating Superbugs
This episode of the Scope of Things features an exclusive panel at SCOPE Europe 2025 covering regulatory requirements for AI literacy training, featuring industry executives Jonathan Crowther, head of the operational design center at Merck KGaA...
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Episode 44
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Episode: 43 - Overcoming the Deadlock in Patient Recruitment With Christine Senn
For decades, clinical trial recruitment has been the biggest challenge in the industry. Christine Senn, senior vice president of Site-Sponsor Innovation at Advarra, offers insights into why the struggle continues, such as delays in getting regu...
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Episode 43
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Episode: 42 - Myeloma Research on a Global Scale with Joseph Mikhael
Joseph Mikhael, chief medical officer of The International Myeloma Foundation, and his organization are pulling all the stops to find a true cure for multiple myeloma, a rare and often fatal blood cancer. He shares the origins and mission of th...
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Episode 42
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Episode: 41 - How Non-Profits Are Filling Unique Roles in Clinical Research
Children’s Tumor Foundation CEO Annette Bakker discusses what non-profit organizations uniquely bring to clinical research and new financial models sustaining their contribution. Plus, host Deborah Borfitz rounds up the latest news in clinical ...
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Episode 41
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35:13
Episode 40: The Advancement and Implementation of Pragmatic Trials
The latest on a trio of pragmatic trials for lung cancer treatment, the implementation of national-scale pharmacogenomic testing, an efficient approach to comparing commonly used intravenous fluids, improving access to gene therapy trials for a...
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Episode 40
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27:49
Episode: 39 - Blythe Adamson on Patient-Level Real-World Data for Multinational Oncology Research
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz brings you the latest news on AI-recommended precision dosing, organoid drug testing aiding treatment selection for bowel cancer, an AI tool for stratifying lung cancer patients, usin...
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Episode 39
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26:17
Episode: 38 - Tackling the Misinformation Epidemic with Briony
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz brings you the news on a precision medicine initiative in Sweden integrating research with healthcare, newly available cardiometabolic clinical data registries for real world evidence...
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Episode 38
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Episode: 37 - Using AI to Translate Clinical Trial Results with Ravi Parikh
In this episode of The Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz covers the latest news, including setting expectations for Phase II cancer trials, key learnings about dementia from the Nun Study, links between cardiovascular disease and mild cogni...
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Episode 37
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25:15
Episode: 36 - Wes Michael on Enhancing Patient Voices and Sharing Their Insights
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz delivers the latest on an AI-powered trial screening tool that outperforms research staff, a strategy report on ways to boost cancer vaccine work, the continued absence of pregnant wo...
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Episode 36
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27:40
Episode: 35 - SCOPE 2025, Participant Engagement Award Winners, How AI is Helping Trials, and More
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz provides the latest on new criteria for defining and diagnosing obesity, the case for including pregnant women in vaccine trials, the subtyping of osteosarcoma, an inert gas being tes...
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Episode 35
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Episode: 34 - Ringing in 2025 With Validating Novel Digital Clinical Measures, Decentralized Trials, and More
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz delivers the news on an investigation into data reporting problems in major Ticagrelor clinical trial PLATO, the need for more sex-aware cancer research, Alzheimer’s studies looking a...
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Episode 34
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27:13
Episode:33 - Orr Inbar Discusses Saving Costs and Complications With Clinical Trial Simulations
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz covers concerns surrounding the study and treatment of obesity, a new “opening doors” initiative to clinical trials, debate over the European Union AI Act, the first international-lev...
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Episode 33
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34:33
Episode: 32 - SCOPE Europe 2024, AI, New Cancer Treatments, More
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz shares the latest news on a drug repurposing AI model now being tested in rare disease clinical trials, a new way forward for triple-negative breast cancer, Jill Pellegrino’s transiti...
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Episode 32
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Episode: 31 - Aaron Mackey on Trial Planning and How AI Can Help With Diversity
Tune in for the latest news and trends in this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, where host Deborah Borfitz covers everything you need to know about a pending launch of a large treatment trial for Graves’ disease, a recruitment campaign f...
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Episode 31
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Episode: 30 - Shining the Spotlight on Rare Disease Trials With Uncommon Cures
This month’s episode of The Scope of Things features the latest trending news from host Deborah Borfitz, including a planned library of “nature’s drugs” targeting complex diseases, a paradoxical approach to treating cancer, how government polic...
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Episode 30
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25:52
Episode 29 - Patient-Focused Drug Design, Enrollment Challenges, and More With Hannah Kemp
Tune into this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, where host Deborah Borfitz covers the use of AI for trial screening and recruitment purposes, a diabetes drug that may help treat sleep apnea, questionable advice from the FDA given to depa...
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Episode 29
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30:49
Episode: 28 - Jonathan Kimmelman on Research Ethics and Dilemmas in Clinical Trials
In this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest news on the fallacy of a survival benefit for cancer patients participating in clinical trials, how and why federally qualified health centers are getting...
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Episode 28
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Episode: 27 - Yvonne Rodriguez on Making Clinical Trials Accessible for Everyone
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz covers the latest news on an AI model for comparing drug effectiveness, adoption of minimal residual disease as an endpoint for multiple myeloma, using HIV treatments for Alzheimer’s ...
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Episode 27
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25:14
Episode: 26 - Digital Twins, Care-For-All European Platform, and the Impact and Future of Wearables and Microsampling
In this episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz brings you the monthly breakdown on current events, such as tailoring medications to individual patients using digital twins, the use of a skin biopsy test to diagnose neurodegenerati...
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Episode 26
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Episode: 25 - The Missing Link in Clinical Trials and Brain Monitoring: Consistent EEG Use
In this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz covers the latest news and emerging trends, including the launch of a company using single-solution software to connect a global network of clinical trial sites to study spons...
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Episode 25
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27:56
Episode: 24 - SCOPE 2024, AI Innovation, and Pitch Contest Winner Dezbee McDaniel
In this month’s episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz catches listeners up with the latest news of the clinical trials and research industry, starting with SCOPE 2024, where a record-breaking 4,000 attendees arrived to l...
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Episode 24
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31:14
Episode: 23 - Discussing Review Boards, Social Media, and World Events With Donna Dorozinsky
In this episode of The Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz provides a rundown of the latest news in the clinical trials field: a massive health research initiative in the UK, widespread overdosing of trial participants, a cholesterol...
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Episode 23
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28:29
Episode: 22 - Clinical News, Start-Ups, and More With Ward Lemaire and Dan Hydes
New Year, new podcast format! In 2024’s first episode of the Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz gives you the latest news from the clinical trials industry, including AI’s role in the creation of digital twins, the obesity epidemic ...
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Episode 22
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26:24
Episode: 21 - Colleen Purcell Tenan on Providing Patients With Clinical Research Care Options
Can clinical trials be a helpful treatment option for patients? In this episode of The Scope of Things, host Deborah Borfitz speaks with Colleen Purcell Tenan, MD, Medical Director at Javara, about providing clinical research as a care op...
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Episode 21
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