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Resources to Help Aspiring Clinical Researchers
If you’re thinking about becoming a clinical researcher, it might be hard to know where to begin. We’ve outlined several resources to help you understand what to expect in a clinical research role.
Platform Trials and Master Protocols: A New Approach to Clinical Research
Learn more about platform trials and master protocols, an alternative model to how we conduct clinical research.
Finding Treatments Together: Part I
Watch the first video in CISCRP's "Finding Treatments Together" series for a helpful outline of the clinical research process and what motivates people to participate.
10 Clinical Trial Facts You Should Know
If you’re a participant or caregiver looking for clinical trial information, it can be helpful to start with a basic overview. The infographic below provides 10 clinical trials facts you need to know.
Types of Clinical Research for COVID-19
As the world works to quickly learn about COVID-19, a mix of research studies is underway. This guide explains the different types of COVID-19 studies and what researchers hope to learn from them.
Tweet Chat: Uncovering Innovation in Clinical Trials
On International Clinical Trials Day, we hosted a tweet chat to generate conversation on #ClinicalTrialInnovation. If you didn’t have a chance to attend, we’ve broken down the key takeaways here.
Meet Four Research Volunteers
Over 2 million brave people take part in clinical trials every year, testing new treatments that may make life better. Meet four of those people.
Understanding Cancer Clinical Trials
Considering a cancer clinical trial? Check out this list of questions to be sure you are informed about the process.
Driving Progress Against Childhood Cancer
Explore the infographic to learn about the role of pediatric research in powering progress against childhood cancer.
A Hero’s Journey Through Clinical Trials
In collaboration with artist John Magnan, we launched a crowd-sourced art project dedicated to clinical trial participants.
Clinical Trial History: Regulatory Guidelines and Requirements
As the practice of medicine advances over time, successes and mistakes lead to regulatory guidelines and requirements.
Clinical Trial History: Being Transparent in Research
In the long-evolving process of clinical research, the most recent focus is transparency. Explore more in this infographic.
Chalking Up Components of Clinical Research
In clinical research, who needs to know what, and when and how do they get that information? Check out our overview.
Clinical Trial History: Clinical Trial Design Across the Ages
Clinical trials have evolved over the millennia to be more complex and more specific in the goals and outcomes they measure.
Clinical Trial History: Human Protections Through the Years and Across the Globe
Clinical research, by its very nature, is continually evolving through the scientific process and sometimes through human behavior.
A Dose of Inspiration
Clinical trials often present challenges, but we can find motivation in the experiences of others. Explore these resources to learn how folks from across the research community are making an impact.
Tweetfest: Digital Health and Clinical Research
What role will digital health play in the future of clinical research? Explore perspectives from folks across the clinical research community shared during our Twitter chat!
Clinical Research Heart and Soul
Past, present and future: research is at the heart and soul of what we do.
Patient-Focused Drug Development: A Systematic Approach
HCPs may be experts on clinical aspects of a given medical condition, but patients are experts on what it’s like to live with it. This is why Patient-Focused Drug Development is so valuable.
Lab Samples: Like Clinical Research Gold
Meet a Lilly clinical research scientist who uses her experience as a lab technologist every day to design trial protocols. While you may not think much of lab samples, to her, they are like gold!
Lab Samples and Clinical Research: 101
Lab samples provide some of the most important knowledge we gain in clinical research. Learn when, where and why samples are collected during a trial.
The Balance of Clinical Trial Participation
Melissa, a past Lilly clinical trial participant, sat down with us to share a bit about her research experience. Watch this video to hear Melissa's story in her own words.
A Clinical Research Symphony
For Wale, a physician who helps guide the strategy, design and procedural decisions for Lilly's clinical trials, clinical research is like an orchestra. Learn why.
Clinical Trial Design: Basket and Umbrella Studies
Newer approaches to clinical trial design have emerged, thanks, in part, to the power of precision medicine.
Pediatric Cancer Experiences: Then and Now
Meet two people who tackled cancer head-on as children and now are dedicated to contributing to the development of new cancer medicines.
Clinical Trial Design: Parallel and Crossover Studies
Clinical trials employ various study designs to demonstrate whether the investigational treatment is effective. Learn more about two common types of design.
2018 Clinical Research Reflections
Take a look back at just two of the clinical trial themes that weaved through many memorable 2018 moments—participatory research and digital health.
CoDESIGNing the Clinical Trial Experience Together
Lilly's CoDESIGN simulations aim to bring perspectives from clinical research sites and patients into the clinical trial design process. Meet one of the people behind the program in this blog.
Experiences in Health Literacy
There are many health literacy lessons to learn from the unique clinical trial experiences of others as you consider participation for yourself or a loved one. Learn more in this blog.
Welcome to the Lilly TrialGuide Blog!
On the Lilly TrialGuide blog we share experiences and knowledge about clinical trials from the perspectives of all involved—patients, caregivers, site staff and more. Learn what’s inside the blog.
Blending the Personal and the Professional: A Community Manager’s Story
As editor of the Lilly TrialGuide blog and the community manager for the associated @LillyTrials handle on Twitter, Leigh Anne Naas is the “person behind the curtain.” Learn more about her.
iCAN Research and Advocacy Summit #IRL
The annual iCAN Research & Advocacy Summit reminds us that there are no voices too young to make a positive impact on clinical research. Read highlights from the 2018 event.
Alzheimer's Research Participation: 5 Things to Know
With the help of clinical trial participants, we are learning about potential new approaches to fighting Alzheimer’s disease. Explore things to know about participating in an Alzheimer's study.
Tweetfest 2018: A Week of Collaboration and Learning
Explore highlights from the 2018 #WhyWeDoResearch Tweetfest—an opportunity to collaborate with folks from around the globe who are involved in clinical research.
Mobile Nursing: Bringing Research to the Patient
Learn about the experience of two members of Lilly’s pediatric steering committee implementing in-home visits via mobile nursing for a Lilly pediatric research study.
Patient Preferences on Proposed Uses of Digital Health in Clinical Trials
We asked patients to take a survey about their preferences on potential digital health solutions for clinical trials. Learn what they said in this infographic.
Developing Safe, Effective Medicines for All Ages
Clinical trials allow for the development of medicines that are safe and effective for people of all ages—including kids.
Family Caregivers: Dynamic Partners in Research
Check out three of our favorite takeaways from a #WhyWeDoResearch Tweetfest chat focused on caregiving.
Health Literacy Practices Improve Pediatric Assent
We reworked our pediatric assent form and measured the impact of those changes on readability and health literacy. Read what we learned.
Connecting the Clinical Trial Dots: How Key Terms are Related
Explore key clinical trials terms and how they relate to each other.
Wash-Out Period: Your Questions, Answered
Do you know what "wash-out period" means and why it's important to understand when considering clinical trial participation? Take a deep dive here.
Digital Connections Enable Continuous Dialogue
People across the country are taking control of their health through educational online resources, social networks, and mobile health technologies.
A Research Story: A Unique View from Both Sides
Meet someone with a unique perspective on clinical research who has worked in clinical research for over 10 years and has participated in a clinical trial.
From Research Participant to Advocate + Beyond
Learn how Jeri Burtchell began her work as a patient advocate and why her advice for others looking to use their voices to make a difference is to step outside your comfort zone.
What’s With Those Socks?
As we monitored our Twitter feed here at Lilly HQ, we noticed something interesting: people kept tweeting about pink socks.