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A brief proposal for improving clinical trials

Recent advances in diagnostics may significantly inspire and streamline clinical trials

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This work was supported by an NIH Directors’ New Innovator Award (1DP2OD007363) and a VA Merit Award (2I01CX000139) to ABN. I would like to thank members of the Niculescu group for their excellent work over the years, and helpful discussions and comments, particularly, Helen Le-Niculescu, Daniel Levey and Peter Phalen.

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Niculescu, A. A brief proposal for improving clinical trials. Mol Psychiatry 21, 736–737 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.42

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