Examining association between cohesion and diversity in collaboration networks of pharmaceutical clinical trials with drug approvals.

Objective: Clinical trials ensure that pharmaceutical treatments are safe, efficacious, and effective for public consumption, but are extremely complex, taking up to 10 years and $2.6 billion to complete. One main source of complexity arises from the collaboration between actors, and network science methodologies can be leveraged to explore that complexity.

Key indicators of phase transition for clinical trials through machine learning.

A significant number of drugs fail during the clinical testing stage. To understand the attrition of drugs through the regulatory process, here we review and advance machine-learning (ML) and natural language-processing algorithms to investigate the importance of factors in clinical trials that are linked with failure in Phases II and III. We find that clinical trial phase transitions can be predicted with an average accuracy of 80%.