
Smarter drug trials can get new meds to the right patients
Startup uses AI to improve the design, execution and analysis of clinical trials, the longest and costliest part of drug development that often fails.
Abigail Klein Leichman, a writer and associate editor at ISRAEL21c from August 2010 until her retirement in March 2024, moved to Israel in 2007. She has freelanced for a variety of newspapers and periodicals since 1984.

Startup uses AI to improve the design, execution and analysis of clinical trials, the longest and costliest part of drug development that often fails.

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