Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Inaugural

Data Technology for End-to-End Clinical Supply Management

Controlling the Complexity of Clinical Supply Forecasting and Contingency Planning

March 2 - 3, 2021 ALL TIMES EST

Digitalization is leveraging new relationship models throughout the entire clinical trial supply chain network. The transformative capability of incorporating valuable insights from multiple sources of data while increasing the amount/quality of data collected/analyzed saves time, money and increases productivity. So why aren’t more organizations incorporating data technology-enabled capabilities into their clinical supply chain? Cambridge Healthtech Institute’s Inaugural Data Technology for End-to-End Clinical Supply Management convenes stakeholders who are adopting and applying digital technologies for agile response in our complex world.

Tuesday, March 2

THE ACCELERATION OF DRUG DEVELOPMENT DUE TO THE PANDEMIC

8:00 am LIVE PLENARY PRESENTATION:

Delivering When It Matters, COVID-19 Edition: Pfizer’s Vaccine Trial Execution Strategies and Technology-Enabled Operations

Panel Moderator:
Demetris Zambas, Vice President & Global Head, Data Monitoring & Management, Pfizer Inc.

Pfizer has been collaborating across the healthcare innovation ecosystem to address the COVID-19 global health care crisis. Pfizer’s stage III coronavirus vaccine trial has enrolled more than 44,000 volunteers and will be completed by the time of the conference. This outstanding effort required leadership, focus and dedication of the entire company and critical stakeholders. All of the industry’s and company’s previous work and innovations were pressure tested to meet the challenging scope of the trial. With a critical global need, the only gauge had to be the “speed of science” with all appropriate quality controls. This panel will discuss Pfizer’s vaccine trial execution strategies and technology-boosted operations.

Panelists:
Ralph Russo, Senior Director & Global Head, Clinical Database Management, Pfizer Inc.
Brett Wilson, Senior Director, Vaccines TA Lead Data Monitoring & Management, Global Biometrics & Data Management, Global Product Development, Pfizer Inc.
Nicholas Kitchin, MD, Senior Director, Vaccine Clinical Research and Development, Pfizer
Helen Smith, Senior Director, Clinical Study Team Lead, CD and O, Pfizer
Liping Zhang, Senior Director, Vaccines Statistical Programming and Analysis Lead, Pfizer Inc
Darren Cowan, Executive Director & Area Head USA, Canada, Pfizer
Beth Paulukonis, Executive Director, Study Management Group Lead, Clinical Development and Operations, Pfizer
9:30 am

PLENARY PRESENTATION: Fireside Chat: Accelerated Drug Development in Response to the Pandemic: Lessons Learned and Key Drivers

Panel Moderator:
Deborah Borfitz, Lead Contributor, Publications, Cambridge Healthtech Institute

Companies adopting tech per Covid, perpetual proof of concept and pilot mode needs to stop, is response to Covid temp or a new normal? Lessons learned is important, but look ahead to 4,000+ active studies still happening in other indications/diseases! Covid burn out. The drug dev paradigm is out of date! What were the accelerants? So, lasting lessons from pandemic are not tactics but behaviors. The cat is out of the bag on the need and desire for more remote/virtual trials – especially if you ask a patient!

Panelists:
Ken Getz, MBA, Founder, CISCRP; Deputy Director, Center for the Study of Drug Development, Tufts University School of Medicine
Leonard Sacks, MD, Associate Director, Clinical Methodology, Office of Medical Policy, CDER, FDA

APPLYING BLOCKCHAIN FOR END-TO-END CLINICAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

9:55 am

Blockchain Consortium – The IMI PharmaLedger Project

Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltran, PharmaLedger Project Coordinator, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Innovative Medicines Initiative Blockchain Project, PharmaLedger, includes 29 public and private partners. Overview of the 3-year project and the development of the selected use cases in the area of supply chain, healthdata marketplace, and clinical trials.


10:15 am Tech Break, Transition to Live Fireside Chat
10:35 am FIRESIDE CHAT:

Blockchain Consortium – The IMI PharmaLedger Project

Panel Moderator:
Disa Lee Choun, Head, GCSO Innovation, UCB Pharma
Panelists:
Maria Eugenia (Xenia) Beltran, PharmaLedger Project Coordinator, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Ingrid Klingmann, MD, PhD, Chairman, European Forum for Good Clinical Practice (EFGCP)
Chad Sklodosky, Director, Digital Clinical Supply Chain CoE, Pfizer
Amaury Jeandrain, Head of Life Sciences Solutions Adoption, Life Sciences, N-SIDE

If they become a bottleneck, supply chain, manufacturing or budgets can delay clinical trials and slow down research. With an experience of over 10.000 optimized trials and programs, N-SIDE shares a path towards faster commercialization, through measurable drug waste and budget reductions enabled by end-to-end clinical supply chain optimization. These concepts will be illustrated by a case study throughout the presentation.

11:35 am Tech Break, Transition to Live Q&A
11:45 am LIVE PANEL DISCUSSION:

What is the Future of Blockchain in Pharma Post-pandemic?

Panel Moderators:
Adama Ibrahim, Director, Digital Solutions & Technology & Platforms, Data & Digital Global Drug Development, Novartis Pharma AG
Disa Lee Choun, Head, GCSO Innovation, UCB Pharma

With the increase of remote and decentralised clinical trials including direct-to-patient drug shipment due to the pandemic, have these accelerated the adoption of blockchain?  Panelists discuss how start-ups are tapping into this area, how has the pandemic changed the digital transformation in pharma/healthcare, and what are the hurdles in the adoption of blockchain in pharma?

Panelists:
Sean Manion, PhD, CSO, ConsenSys Health
Jim Nasr, CEO, Acoer
Ben Taylor, CEO, LedgerDomain
12:10 pm Session Break - Visit Our Virtual Exhibit Hall
Billy Byrom, VP Product Intelligence & Positioning, Marketing, Signant Health

ADAPTING TO THE NEW NORMAL – LESSONS LEARNED FROM CHANGES IN PROCESSES AND APPLYING DATA TECHNOLOGIES

1:00 pm

Hands-Off Clinical Supply Chain – Hype and Reality

Ahn Louise Larsen, Senior Supply Chain Specialist, Clinical Supplies, Novo Nordisk

We will give an introduction to Novo Nordisk’s ambition for “Hands-off Clinical Supply Chain” and discuss our learnings and challenges from implementing processes which are increasingly supported by digital solutions. Our continued journey includes navigating between waves of technology hype and a reality where employees also need to get on board to harvest the benefits of automation and digitalization.

1:20 pm

TEACUPSS: Trial Enrollment Aware Clinical Use Predictions for Supply Shipment

Mark F Ciaccio, PhD, Senior Biology Data Scientist, Platform Informatics & Knowledge Management, AbbVie Inc

Self-attention based neural networks are able to predict successive words given a linguistic sequence. Historical shipping measurements can also be understood as the context of a sequential story in which the next word represents the predicted value. For the first time, we combine enrollment data, manufacturing request data, and historical shipment data to forecast future shipments to clinical sites using a linguistic approach.

Henk Dieteren, Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Suvoda

Recently, IRT and temperature excursion management have become integrated solutions with one another as sponsors seek to reduce risk in their studies. This talk will explain how IRT can help sponsors manage risk in temperature excursion management more effectively. It will also explain how companies can plan to effectively integrate digital and automated processes into their workflow for optimal benefit to all parties involved as quickly as possible.

2:00 pm

Cell and Gene Therapy: Closing the Loop with Blockchain

Ben Taylor, CEO, LedgerDomain

 

While personalized medicine is transforming patient outcomes, it also represents a challenge to patient privacy and data security. This is especially true for cell and gene therapies and organ transplants, which involves the collection, use, and transfer of personally identifiable genetic information about donors and recipients. Ben Taylor discusses the challenges in the space and how blockchain ensures data security and regulatory compliance for all stakeholders.


Evan Hahn, VP North America, TSS

The current, industry-standardized means of monitoring temperature at clinical sites consist of several manual steps most often performed by the clinics' study staff. The consequences of these manual endeavors result in both unwanted temperature excursions and data gaps in the temperature monitoring process. We will discuss how technology is being applied to create a seamless process that ensures the timely collection of complete and high-quality data, facilitates de-centralized studies, and greatly reduces site and study teams' burden.

2:40 pm Tech Break, Transition to Live Q&A
2:50 pm LIVE PANEL DISCUSSION:

Adapting to the New Normal

Panel Moderator:
Mark F Ciaccio, PhD, Senior Biology Data Scientist, Platform Informatics & Knowledge Management, AbbVie Inc
Panelists:
Ahn Louise Larsen, Senior Supply Chain Specialist, Clinical Supplies, Novo Nordisk
Amaury Jeandrain, Head of Life Sciences Solutions Adoption, Life Sciences, N-SIDE
Henk Dieteren, Supply Chain Solutions Consultant, Suvoda
Evan Hahn, VP North America, TSS
Ben Taylor, CEO, LedgerDomain

CREATIVITY AND ENGAGEMENT IN RECRUITMENT AND RETENTION COMMUNICATIONS: SCOPE’S PARTICIPANT ENGAGEMENT AWARDS

3:15 pm LIVE:

SCOPE’s 2021 Participant Engagement Awards

Panel Moderator:
David Sall, President & CEO, Marketing, Patient Enrollment Advisors LLC

Designed to inspire innovation and change in how the industry communicates with participants in the fields of recruitment and retention in clinical trials, this award embodies the values and personal accomplishments of Jerry Matczak, who sadly passed away soon after receiving the 2017 award. We dedicate this award to Jerry in the hope that it will serve as a reminder of his ideals and accomplishments.

SCOPE’s 2021 Participant Engagement Award program is brought to you by Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI)’s SCOPE.

Panelists:
Phyllis Kaplan, Trial Volunteer and Patient Advocate; Senior Manager, Events & Community Engagement, Center for Information & Study on Clinical Research Participation (CISCRP)
Irfan Khan, CEO, Circuit Clinical
Kelly McKee, Senior Director, Patient Recruitment and Registries, Medidata Solutions
Ramona Burress, Assoc Dir, Diversity & Inclusion in Clinical Trials, Janssen R&D LLC
4:05 pm Interactive Breakout Discussions - Visit Our Virtual Exhibit Hall

Join your colleagues and fellow delegates for a focused, informal discussion moderated by a member of our speaking faculty. A small group format allows participants to meet potential collaborators, share examples from their own work and discuss ideas with peers. View all topics here.

Tim Corbett-Clark, BA, MA, DPhil (oxon), Chief Technology Officer, Cmed Technology

Cmed Technology CTO, Dr. Tim Corbett-Clark shares his views on the current landscape within clinical trials, discussing the challenges that point and unified solutions bring. He also examines how to best optimize clinical trial data workflows by bringing the tech to data, removing the silos, and eliminating the barriers to getting holistic data for total control and visibility from phase one to four.

Bernadette Tosti, Vice President, Patient Experience, Science 37
Lindsay Singler, Director, Research Communications & Engagement, Operations Management Team, Duke Clinical Research Institute

Current events have driven pediatric clinical research to be more flexible and efficient—to increase patient access and enhance the patient experience both during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. With increased regulatory support for direct-to-family (decentralized) trials, learn how to leverage technology to safely and efficiently conduct research using a current, real-life example of trial design.

Amy Franzen, General Manager & Vice President, Clinical Trials Solutions, Tempus

Overview of the Clinical Trial Solutions at Tempus which support precision patient identification and recruitment for oncology clinical trials through the TIME Trial program, a rapid activation Just-in-Time network of research-experienced clinical trial sites

Rutendo Kashambwa, MS, Senior Clinical Analyst, Clinical Sciences, TriNetX

Watch a live demonstration of protocol design utilizing real-world data on the TriNetX platform for a phase III cardiovascular randomized controlled trial, and a subsequent label expansion.

4:40 pm Close of Day

Wednesday, March 3

REAL-TIME PLATFORMS

9:00 am

Rightsizing CTMS: A New Approach to Operational Data Analysis & Insights

Nick Hargaden, PhD, Associate Director, Clinical Systems, Agios

Traditional Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS) are often time consuming and costly implementations and not an ideal fit for many sponsors that outsource their clinical monitoring. As organizations grow and expand their pipeline, creating real-time visibility to trial and site performance versus relying on feeds from partner CTMS systems becomes a higher priority. This talk explores the “right-size” Clinical Trial Management System for growing organizations. What operational data should be owned and managed internally and provides the greatest value and insights.

Barrie Nelson, VP, Digital Clinical Innovation & CSO, Nurocor Inc.
Jason Housley, Global Head, Data Standards and Automation, Novartis Pharmaceuticals UK Ltd.

Digital innovation is a complex topic, a digital strategy needs both a tactical and strategic focus and a technology foundation that can grow to support both of these aims and deliver continuing and exponential value is very appealing. A digitalized clinical development process is a catalyst for extensive automation and substantial cycle time reductions. In this session we’ll discuss considerations for a standards driven digitalized clinical development process.

 

9:40 am

Clinical Data Review Platform: A One-Stop-Shop for All Clinical Data Activities

Alicia Worrall, Manager, Clinical Analytics, Data & Statistical Sciences, AbbVie Inc.

By integrating centralized data review systems together, AbbVie's clinical data review platform provides a one-stop-shop for all clinical data activities, encompassing study start-up, conduct, and close-out, and resulting in increased efficiency and compliance. This intuitive, robust, and scalable platform enables automation where possible to drive speed, agility, and quality. Utilizing this new platform eliminates the need for manual trackers, closes the gap between plan and execution and further drives team collaboration.

10:00 am Sponsored Presentation (Opportunity Available)
10:20 am

On-Demand Safety and Efficacy Insights

Cathleen Jewell, PhD, Clinical Analyltics Mgr, Data & Statistical Sciences, AbbVie Inc

An interactive analytics platform will be showcased that provides cross-functional stakeholders direct access to clinical data allowing for easy study monitoring, on-demand insights, and agile decision making. These solutions are deployed for early development Oncology clinical trials to promote rapid and repeatable consumption of the data and enable go/no-go decisions.

10:40 am Session Break

ENHANCING PATIENT-SITE CENTRICITY AND CLINICAL INNOVATION THROUGH TECHNOLOGY

10:55 am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

COVID-19: How an External Event Redoubled Janssen’s Culture of Innovation

Darren Weston, Vice President, Integrated Data Analytics & Reporting (IDAR), Janssen

The external threat posed by the pandemic forced Janssen to reckon with longstanding cultural barriers to innovation. Faced with an urgent need to ensure patient safety and continuity of care, Janssen found a way to overcome these barriers and evolve the way they conduct clinical trials. Not only did Janssen minimize overall trial impact, but Janssen’s clinical operations have become more efficient and resilient in the face of future challenges. We will discuss the cultural and operational adaptations Janssen undertook to adapt to the pandemic environment and how we see these actions positioning us for the future.

11:20 am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Virtual Investigator Meetings During COVID-19 & Beyond
Steven Sulkin, Founder & CEO, SimuLyve International, Inc.®

Steven Sulkin, CEO, SimuLyve International

Marina Ziehn, PhD, Global Med. Affairs Dir. Neuroscience, Novartis

Markus Krüer, PhD, Head Clinical Project Mgt, Merz

Nico Wegener, PhD, Senior Clinical Project Mgr, Merz

Dave Matthews, Clinical Project Dir., Merz

 

Training worldwide staff on complicated protocols virtually with the added issue of language barriers can seem daunting. Our panel of virtual experts will show you how to perfect virtual skills and enhance virtual meetings.

 

11:20 am KEYNOTE PRESENTATION:

Option 2: New Players and Innovators in Clinical Trials, the Impact of Non-Pharma Entrants...Meet Salesforce and CVS Health

Shwen Gwee, Vice President & Head, Global Digital Strategy, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Gary Gabriel, PhD, Healthcare and Life Sciences Lead, Salesforce
Lou Sanquini, Vice President, Life Sciences Group, CVS Health
11:45 am Tech Break, Transition to Interactive Breakout Discussions
12:00 pm Interactive Breakout Discussions - Visit Our Virtual Exhibit Hall

Join your colleagues and fellow delegates for a focused, informal discussion moderated by a member of our speaking faculty. A small group format allows participants to meet potential collaborators, share examples from their own work and discuss ideas with peers. View all topics here.


BREAKOUT: Decentralized and Hybrid Trials: COVID-19 as an Accelerator

Jane Jacob, PhD, Vice President, Research & Clinical Affairs, Synergy Disc Replacement, Inc.
Laurie Halloran, President & CEO, Halloran Consulting Group Inc.
Matthew Moyer, Director Clinical Supply Technology, Global Clinical Supply, Merck & Co. Inc.
Vani Nilakantan, PhD, Vice President, Research, Allina Health System
Laura Whitmore, Head, Clinical Operations, Cerevel Therapeutics LLC
Nikala Kwech, eCOA Operations Lead, Data Sciences, AbbVie Inc.
Hassan Kadhim, Director & Head, Clinical Trial Business Capabilities, Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Angie Botto-Van Bemden, PhD, Patient Advocate, Musculoskeletal Research International
David Fauvart, Associate Director, Janssen Clinical Innovation, Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D
Michele Teufel, Patient & Site Engagement Lead, Development Operations, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Michael Mclaughlin, Associate Director, Clinical Operations, Dermavant Sciences Inc.
Anthony Costello, President, Patient Cloud, Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes Company
Isaac Rodriguez-Chavez, Senior Vice President for Scientific and Clinical Affairs, Digital Health, PRA Health Sciences
Robert Loll, Senior Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Planning, Praxis Communications, LLC
Chris Varner, Associate Director, Virtual Trial Solutions, IQVIA
12:30 pm Session Break - Visit Our Virtual Exhibit Hall
Leon Sun, Chief Science Officer, RA,PV,MD, Beijing Highthink Technology Co., Ltd

Founded in 2006, Highthinkmed is the fastest growing clinical CRO in China with over 800 full time employees, providing one-stop clinical services including clinical operation, medical affairs, data management, biostatistics, pharmacovigilance, regulatory affairs etc. Highthinkmed owes its own eCTD system meeting requirements of FDA, EMA and NMPA with a professional team providing eCTD submission services. Highthinkmed welcomes all partners across the world for international collaboration.

Geoff Gill, President, Shimmer Americas, Shimmer Research

Different endpoints derived from wearables can require very different wearable sensors.  Unfortunately, qualifying and integrating different wearables often from different vendors can be time-consuming and uncertain.  Learn how Shimmer Research is addressing this challenge by introducing a series of wearables that are all part of its highly flexible Verisense platform.

1:15 pm Close of Data Technologies for End-to-End Clinical Supply Management Conference





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