Clinical Supply Logistic Articles

  1. What Really Happens When A Cell Therapy Supply Chain Fails? 4/5/2024

    A freezer left unpowered can have devastating effects on delicate supply chains. These true stories led to tough lessons for biotech companies producing personalized medicine.

  2. Best Practices For Clinical Supply Chain Management In Rare Disease Trials 3/27/2024

    A supply chain pro discusses three of the greatest challenges in clinical trial supply management for rare diseases and strategies to overcome them.

  3. How To Prevent And Manage Temperature Excursions In Clinical Trials 3/20/2024

    Temperature excursions can have devastating effects on drug product for clinical trials. Here are some ways to avoid them and protect the cold chain.

  4. Supplying Complex, Controversial, And Intercontinental Clinical Trials 3/13/2024

    Planning a clinical supply strategy for a complicated substance, psilocybin, is tricky. It's even more tricky doing it from the other side of the planet. Here's one company's approach.

  5. Do ClinOps Professionals Understand The CAR-T Supply Chain? 3/4/2024

    Lee Clough RN, HP, of Novartis talks about the importance of understanding the nuances associated with collecting and shipping autologous material (i.e., CAR-Ts) for clinical trials. 

  6. The Impact Of Protocol Design On An IRT System 1/31/2024

    DTP and home treatment studies can get expensive — and be a hassle to patients — if the IRT element isn’t well planned for during trial design. In their SCOPE Summit presentation, Irina Grishina and Kelsey Kern of CSL Behring plan to share their personal anecdotes and lessons learned from both types of trials as they pertain to IRT. 

  7. Donating Surplus Clinical Trial Supplies Is Sustainability's “Low-Hanging Fruit” 1/29/2024

    ClinOps professionals know all too well the waste that occurs with leftover trial kits that are destroyed at the end of the trial. Explore donation as a way to give those kits a second life.

  8. Cryo-Shippers: Challenges, Controls, And Logistics 1/3/2024

    Cryo-shippers are essential for shipping advanced therapeutics, but how do you choose and validate the right one? This article from BMS experts offers insights.

  9. Clinical Trial Supply Market Outlook, Developments, & Technology Trends 12/26/2023

    The clinical trial supplies market is estimated at $3.9 billion in 2023 and is projected to reach $6.3 billion by 2028. Explore more insights from Markets and Markets.

  10. Bayesian Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials: Using Data Science To Optimize Investigational Product Supply 11/30/2023

    While it is challenging to make precise predictions for clinical trial supplies, applying Bayesian statistics will help. This article shares steps to plan your Bayesian approach and how it helps to reduce waste and prevent shortages.