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Innovative Trials

Innovative Trials is a leading global clinical trial patient recruitment and retention company. With over 10 years’ experience, Innovative Trials deploys “boots-on-the-ground” recruitment experts in over 70 countries, addressing individual sites’ unique recruitment and retention challenges in local language.

Innovative Trials has experience in 25 therapeutic areas and 90+ conditions working with some of the biggest global pharmaceuticals, Clinical Research Organisations (CROs) and biotech companies.

Innovative Trials was founded in 2010 by Kate Shaw and Dave Watkins after identifying a growing need for clinical trial patient recruitment support.

Areas of Expertise

Proactive & Rescue Studies

Rare disease

Traditional Clinical Trials

Decentralized Clinical Trials (DCTs)

Hybrid Clinical Trials

Corporate Social Responsibility

Equality and Diversity Commitment

Innovative Trials is committed to ensuring we eliminate discrimination from all of our processes and culture. Our Equality and Diversity Committee is here to support the company in creating an organisation where the working environment is accessible, responsive and appropriate to people where all employees can fully contribute, develop and flourish at work, irrespective of their personal characteristics.

Our commitment is to :

Take an overview of equality, diversity and human rights issue to support the company’s strategic agenda in this area.
Work within Equality and Human Rights Commission guidelines and codes of practice.
To oversee the design, implementation and periodic review of IT’s equality objectives.
To oversee the implementation, completion, monitoring, audit and evaluation of the Equality Impact Assessment (EqIA) process for policy and procedures.

Team

Kate Shaw Founder and CEO kate.shaw@innovativetrials.com View LinkedIn profile	Marco Lassandro Marketing & Communications Manager marco.lassandro@innovativetrials.com View LinkedIn profile
Leanne Keem Head of Operations and Client Relationships leanne.keem@innovativetrials.com View LinkedIn profile	Laura Burt Director of Operations laura.burt@innovativetrials.com View LinkedIn profile
Eloise Moffett Vice President of Commercial eloise.moffett@innovativetrials.com View LinkedIn profile

Press Releases

Innovative Trials at the 2023 Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards: Innovative Trials achievements recognized at the Lloyds Bank British Business Excellence Awards
Innovative Trials has been shortlisted in the PMEA Awards: Innovative Trials finalist in the Support Agency of the Year at the annual PMEA industry awards.
FREE Live Webinar - Solving your patient recruitment & retention challenges - 15th November 2023: Join Innovative Trials and Avillion in this FREE webinar
A New Era in Patient Recruitment & Retention: Innovative Trials launches ‘first of its kind’ service to boost clinical trial patient recruitment and retention .
Innovative Trials partner with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity: The patient recruitment company has chosen their UK charity partner for 2022/2023
Patient recruitment company, Innovative Trials, nominated a finalist in prestigious award: UK-based patient recruitment company celebrates an incredible achievement in a national award nomination
Innovative Trials attended the Inspire Hertfordshire Award gala dinner: Innovative Trials, a global clinical trial patient recruitment and retention company based in Hertfordshire, has been recognised for its contribution to the county’s economy and business reputation.
Innovative Trials responds to national recommendations to tackle UK clinical trial decline: Kate Shaw, Founder & CEO, comments on the Lord report of the Lord O’Shaughnessy review into commercial clinical trials in the UK.
Innovative Trials nominates Eloise Moffett as New VP of Commercial: Eloise Moffett joins Innovative Trials as New Vice President of Commercial to drive business growth globally
Kate Shaw comments the appointment of an independent review on clinical trials in the UK.: The news comes after a report by the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) highlighted a 44% decline in industry clinical trials in the UK over the last five years.
Innovative Trials comments on extra funding to increase access to clinical trials for cancer patients: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials' Founder & CEM, reflects on the exciting news for patients affected by cancer in the UK.
Innovative Trials opens first US office: The leading global patient recruitment organisation has opened its first international office in the Raleigh, North Carolina
Innovative Trials partners with MS Society: UK-based patient recruitment company announces its annual charity partnership in support of multiple sclerosis
FREE Live Webinar - Accelerating Patient recruitment in Clinical Trials post COVID-19 - 8th June 2022: Innovative Trials and Parexel invite you to attend the live webinar
Innovative Trials named a finalist in the Inspiring Hertfordshire Awards: The patient recruitment organisation has been shortlisted in the Inspiring Hertfordshire awards
Innovative Trials suspends services in Russia in response to Ukraine war: Kate Shaw, Founder & CEO of the leading patient recruitment organisation based in Letchworth (UK), on the current Russia-Ukraine situation.
Meet Innovative Trials at SCOPE 2022: Stop by Booth 1015 to meet the Innovative Trials' team during SCOPE 2022
Innovative Trials named Best global Patient Recruitment Company of 2021: Innovative Trials, has been named Best Global Patient Recruitment Company by the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical Awards 2021.
Innovative Trials wins the Queen’s Award: Innovative Trials presented with Queen’s Award for international excellence in clinical trial patient recruitment

White Papers and Resources

Navigator - Revolutionize your patient recruitment and retention: Welcome to the new era in patient recruitment and retention
[Free Case Study Booklet] Accelerating Patient Recruitment in a global rare disease trial: See how Innovative Trials supported a Top 5 pharma to complete enrollment in a Phase 2 Lupus study
Pride Month 2023 - Innovative Trials: Innnovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee celebrates Pride Month
[Free Whitepaper] 5 Principles for Greater Diversity in Patient Recruitment: Discover how community engagement could enhance diversity in clinical trials patient recruitment
Kate Shaw reflects on Innovative Trials' first US office openings: On Thanksgiving, Kate Shaw, Founder and CEO of Innovative Trials, reflects on the company first US office opening
Innovative Trials on the latest ABPI report: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials Founder & CEO, commented on the latest ABPI report
Innovative Trials featuring in a Clinical Trials Arena article: Leanne Keem, Head of Operations and Client Relationship at Innovative Trials, featured in a recent article.
FREE Live Webinar - Overcoming Patient Recruitment Challenges in Rare Disease Trials: Innovative Trials and Pfizer invite you to attend the live webinar
Accelerating patient recruitment post-COVID-19: COVID-19 has hugely affected clinical trials and patient recruitment, with the entire industry on hold for some time causing backlogs and delays most of the studies.
Windrush Day: Innnovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee raises awareness around Windrush Day and the Windrush generation
Celebrating World Blood Donor Day: Each 14th June World Blood Donor day is celebrated around the world to spread awareness around the importance of giving blood.
Improving diversity in clinical trial patient recruitment: A key requirement for clinical trials is to understand the effect of potential treatments on the patient populations that will benefit most. Despite this, many studies find diverse patient recruitment challenging and this can have major implications.
Increasing patient randomisation rate by 200% for a Top 5 global pharma: Phase IIa Moderate to Severe Hidradenitis Suppurativa Case Study
Eating Disorders Awareness Week: In the latest blog post, Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee focuses on eating disorders
FREE Live Webinar - Diversity in Clinical Trials - 24th February: Innovative Trials, Pfizer and Parexel invite you to attend the live webinar
Three predictions for the clinical trial industry in 2022: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials Founder & CEO, looks ahead to 2022 by listing three predictions for the clinical trial industry in 2022
World Cancer Day - February 2022: World Cancer Day is celebrated around the world in February in February and innovative Trials wants to take this opportunity to raise awareness around cancer
Personalised medicine: driving a need for greater diversity in clinical trials: Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials' Founder & CEO, investigates one of the biggest challenges facing clinical research today.
Cervical Cancer Prevention Month: In this first 2022 blog, the Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity committee will be looking at raising awareness around Cervical Cancer
Interview with Kate Shaw, Innovative Trials' Founder/CEO: 2021 has been a very busy year for Innovative Trials and Kate Shaw discusses the main highlights.
Diversity in clinical trials: looking back at our 2021 blogs: In this blog, we look back at the Innovative Trials' Equality & Diversity (E&D) committee blogs across 2021
Accelerating patient recruitment in clinical trials with the Clinical Enrolment Managers (CEMs): How Innovative Trials' global Clinical Enrolment Managers (CEMs) give clinical trial sites the local touch
Six ways to improve diversity in clinical trials: Diversity is becoming increasingly important as a focus of clinical trials. This whitepaper gives six approaches that could be implemented to help make diversity a bigger focus on your clinical trials.
Men’s Health Awareness Month: In this November blog, Innovative Trials will be looking at the men's health and the Movember movement which aims at raising awareness around men's health
Lupus Awareness Month: In this second October’s blog, we will be looking into Lupus in clinical trials: its symptoms, complications, treatments, incidence and focus on diversity.
Black community representation in clinical trials: This Black History Month, we discuss the black representation in clinical trials and the effects COVID-19 has had on the black community.