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Noun1.clinical trial - a rigorously controlled test of a new drug or a new invasive medical device on human subjects; in the United States it is conducted under the direction of the FDA before being made available for general clinical use

trial, run, test - the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called each flip of the coin a new trial"

phase I, phase I clinical trial - a clinical trial on a few persons to determine the safety of a new drug or invasive medical device; for drugs, dosage or toxicity limits should be obtained

phase II, phase II clinical trial - a clinical trial on more persons than in phase I; intended to evaluate the efficacy of a treatment for the condition it is intended to treat; possible side effects are monitored

phase III, phase III clinical trial - a large clinical trial of a treatment or drug that in phase I and phase II has been shown to be efficacious with tolerable side effects; after successful conclusion of these clinical trials it will receive formal approval from the FDA

phase IV, phase IV clinical trial - sometimes the FDA approves a drug for general use but requires the manufacturer to continue to monitor its effects; during this phase the drug may be tried on slightly different patient populations than those studied in earlier trials

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Biopharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE:BMY) revealed on Tuesday that it has signed a clinical trial transparency agreement with Duke University's Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI), an academic clinical research organisation that conducts groundbreaking multinational clinical trials.

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The network will be able to provide information on participants in clinical trials to 200 affiliated medical institutions on a real-time basis.

This program announcement is a reissuance of PAR-04-065, and specifically encourages the submission of applications for pilot and feasibility clinical and translational research studies, including clinical trials, and epidemiologic studies, related to kidney or urologic disease research that address important clinical and translational questions and are potentially of high impact.

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The CRO physician may co-author a peer-reviewed journal article after overseeing a particularly significant clinical trial or provide comment on behalf of the CRO to a government agency on a proposed regulation or policy affecting the drug development and approval process.


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