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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

Patient Recruitment

Site Optimization

Referral Support

Community Engagement

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

Marco Lassandro
Marketing & Communications Manager
marco.lassandro@innovativetrials.com
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Leanne Keem
Head of Operations and Client Relationships
leanne.keem@innovativetrials.com
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Laura Burt
Director of Operations
laura.burt@innovativetrials.com
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Press Releases

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

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.

Videos and Podcasts

Latest Tweets

Awards

Best Global Patient Recruitment Company  - 2021

Queen's Award for Enterprise -  2020/2025

National Business Women’s Awards - 2019

Inspire Hertfordshire Awards - 2019

SME Hertfordshire Business Awards - 2019

Networks

The Road to Equality

Company Details

Innovative Trials

+44 (0) 1707 378 581

Contact Website

Address:
Innovative Trials Ltd, Innovative House
Avenue One
Letchworth Garden City
Hertfordshire
SG6 2WW
United Kingdom

Latest content on this profile

Navigating patients step by step on their clinical trial journey
For clinical trial participants, navigating their way through a study can sometimes seem daunting and complicated. Without the right support, around 30% are likely to drop out [1], resulting in extra financial costs for sponsors and potentially placing the future of the trial in jeopardy.However, sites don’t always have the time and resources available to commit to ongoing and consistent patient engagement. In our upcoming webinar, we will discuss common challenges participants and sites face when it comes to engagement and how our new ‘Navigator’ service is helping to change the game.Hear how our new patient-centric service benefits patients, sites and sponsors by:Ensuring patients get the support they need for the best clinical trial experience possibleDecreasing the risk of early trial termination by improving the retention of participants until the very end of a studyReducing the burden on sites by performing a second layer of prescreening, allowing sites to focus on the scienceSpeakersChair - John Pinching, Editor, PharmaTimesKari Reilly - Patient Recruitment Manager, Innovative TrialsKristin Faber - VP of Clinical Trial Patient Recruitment, Spectrum ScienceAdel Sepulveda - Navigator, Innovative TrialsGwen Barger - Site Manager, CCT ResearchReferencesAlexander W. The uphill path to successful clinical trials: keeping patients enrolled. P T. 2013;38(4):225-227. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684189/
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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.
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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
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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.
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Patient Recruitment: Think Global, Act Local
Global clinical trials are a vital component of pharma R&D. Utilizing sites in multiple countries not only provides increased access to eligible and diverse patients - and therefore more robust data - but also promotes health equity and research and innovation across continents.Another benefit of global clinical trials is the potential for these studies to be completed more quickly and efficiently [1]. However, around four in five clinical trials fail to meet their patient recruitment deadlines [2], which delays patient access to innovative new therapeutics and can prove costly to Sponsors.Just as treatments are becoming more personalized, so should clinical trial patient recruitment strategies. A ‘one size fits all’ approach to enrollment fails to consider how factors such as an individual country’s culture, healthcare structure and patients’ needs can affect a site’s ability to recruit eligible participants. The key to patient enrollment success is to ‘think local’, even for global studies.In this webinar, we will:Discuss the benefits of using a diversified patient recruitment approach for each country within a global studyInvestigate how patient recruitment strategies can differ from country to country,Hear from two in-country patient recruitment specialists about the challenges relevant to their regions and how they work with sites to overcome theseShare how Innovative Trials’ ‘boots-on-the-ground’ approach in more than 70 countries around the world can help accelerate patient recruitment and retention for your clinical trials.SpeakersGeorgia Hardy - Site Operations Lead, Innovative TrialsNicole Yingst - Associate Director, Patient Recruitment Programs, PfizerBarbara OrlosKaminska - Clinical Enrollment Manager (Poland), Innovative Trials
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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.
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