The MRCT Center Podcast

The MRCT Center Podcast

We are the Multi-Regional Clinical Trials Center of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard.

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September 2, 2024 • 22 mins

This is the first episode in our new series, "Trials Beyond Borders: Building Representative Clinical Trials Worldwide."  This episode features a conversation with MRCT Center Program Director Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, consultant Katherine Wright, and Tinaya Gray, Global Head of Diversity in Clinical Trials at ICON, plc, about the CRO perspective, focusing on communication between sponsors, CROs, and sites in planning for diversi...

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In this episode, Racquel Bruton, Associate Director and Clinical Trials Diversity Portfolio Lead at Biogen, and Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Program Director at the MRCT Center, discuss how sponsor companies are enhancing representation in clinical trials, particularly outside the US. Racquel highlights Biogen's longstanding commitment to reaching underrepresented populations and explores how the MRCT Center’s roadmap can help organ...

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Episode Overview: In this special episode, recorded during the MRCT Center’s October 2024 conference, Advancing Pediatric Platform Trials: Streamlining Development, Maximizing Impact, we feature a keynote conversation with Dr. Danny Benjamin—renowned pediatrician, researcher, and champion of clinical trial innovation.

Dr. Benjamin discusses how platform trials can address p...

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Trials Beyond Borders: Clinical Trials in Latin America—Aligning Global Research with Local Realities

In this episode, Dr. Carla Saenz, Regional Advisor for Bioethics at the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), joins Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, Program Director at the MRCT Center, for a compelling co...

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Episode Overview: In this fifth episode of the MRCT Center podcast, Dr. Barbara Bierer, Faculty Director of the MRCT Center and professor of medicine at BWH and HMS, discusses the newly released Toolkit for Supporting the Design, Conduct, and Reporting of Long-Term Follow-Up (LTFU) Studies for Gene Therapies with Carolyn Chapman, Leader of the Cell and Gene therapies project at the MRCT Center, Lead Inv...

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