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Velocity and Stitch expand global partnership to advance evidence-driven patient engagement

Full network expansion to all studies at 70+ global locations follows a year-long collaboration that improved show-rates by up to 9 percentage points across nearly 100k scheduled screenings.  Today, we are excited to announce that Velocity Clinical Research, the world’s largest organization of fully owned and integrated clinical research sites, is deepening its aligned partnership … Read more

The Habit That’s Quietly Running Your Trial

By Nick Spittal, Chief Operations Officer, Velocity Clinical Research  Most sponsors and CROs talk about slow sites, hard-to-find patients, and protocol complexity putting their studies at risk. Those issues are all real, and they frequently share the same underlying cause: the disparate operating model used across individual study sites. In my experience, study risk often … Read more

Velocity Establishes a New Industry Benchmark, Entering 97% of Patient Data Within 24 Hours of Collection

Velocity Clinical Research, the world’s largest integrated global site network, today announced that its centralized Electronic Data Capture (EDC) model is now entering 97% of clinical trial data within one business day of patient visits — two to four days faster than the industry average of five days reported in independent benchmarking studies. Additionally, data … Read more

Velocity Delivers Vaccine Trial Enrollment at Scale — On Both Sides of the Atlantic

When a large-scale vaccine trial needed to move fast, Velocity delivered — not once, but twice, across two continents. In the United States, Velocity was the sole site network selected to enroll participants for the trial. Across just 10 sites, the team enrolled 1,000 participants in 3.5 weeks. That’s the kind of speed that only … Read more

An Interview with William Beacham, MD on 40 Years of Practice, a Serendipitous Entry into Research, and the Future of Women’s Health Trials

There is a phrase William Beacham, MD reaches for when people ask how he ended up an OB-GYN: congenital gynecologist. It was his father’s speciality, too, and his grandfather was a physician. Four of his father’s five brothers also went into medicine. So, by the time Dr. Beacham was making his own choices, there was … Read more

Kris Kowdley, MD Quoted in Zydus Therapeutics Announcement

An image of Kris Kowdley's quote in the Zydus Announcement.

Congratulations to Zydus Therapeutics on the US FDA granting Priority Review to their New Drug Application for saroglitazar for the treatment of Primary Biliary Cholangitis (PBC)! Kris Kowdley, MD, AGAF, FAASLD, FACP, FACG — Velocity Principal Investigator and EPICS-III Study Investigator — was featured in the Zydus Therapeutics announcement highlighting the Phase 3 results of … Read more

Clinical Trials Have a Representation Problem. This Site is Fixing It.

At Velocity Clinical Research Albuquerque, clinical research is being delivered in a way that reflects the community it serves. Led by Dr. Sara Friedman, a Principal Investigator with a background in OB/GYN, the Albuquerque site is a female-led team focused on women’s health and vaccines. Their work sits at the intersection of scientific rigor and … Read more

How Velocity Annapolis is Redefining Where Clinical Research Happens

At Velocity in Annapolis, MD, clinical research is delivered as part of everyday healthcare. Located on the Anne Arundel Medical Center campus, the site is embedded within a broader care environment, allowing patients to access clinical trials in the same place they already receive treatment. Turning Access Into Opportunity The Annapolis site serves a population … Read more