• WORLD VIEW
• 18 August 2020

How we accelerated clinical trials in the age of coronavirus

The United Kingdom’s RECOVERY trial shows a way to benefit patients faster.

• Nicole Mather⁰

1. Nicole Mather

   1. Nicole Mather is life-sciences lead at IBM Services in London; executive board member at NHS DigiTrials; and non-executive director at the UK Health Research Authority and Wellcome Genome Research Ltd.

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In March, as the tsunami of COVID-19 hit Europe, it became obvious that the virus could overwhelm the United Kingdom’s National Health Service (NHS). To address this issue, colleagues and I repurposed infrastructure so that clinical trials could safely get data about more treatments from more patients more quickly.

Nature 584, 326 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02416-z

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