clinical trials

also referred to as: clinical trial

10 statements across 6 episodes · 5 bullish · 4 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Jan 17, 2019 by Vas Narasimhan · across every show →

Everything said about clinical trials, oldest first

Jan 17, 2019 bearish
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Wearable sensors have failed to meet clinical trial validation standards
“When I think about, first of all, I would say just in general in sensors is another place where there's been a lot of hype Above what, of expectations. I mean, we've been really trying to explore the use of sensors in clinical trials now for, in my own experie…”
Vas Narasimhan Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 43:10 a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Disclosure
Novartis built AI command center Sense to track global clinical trials
“So we've built an operational command center. Take us, as I said, two and a half years to build it. We call it sense. And what it enables us to do a team sitting centrally in our headquarters to look at all of our clinical trials in the world. And AI is predic…”
Vas Narasimhan Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 38:12 a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
Jan 17, 2019 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Narasimhan: Scaling technology in clinical trials could cut costs by 20%
“There are estimates now from various sources that believe you could take out 20% of clinical trials costs if you were to actually to really deploy technology at scale.”
Vas Narasimhan Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 7:15 a16z Podcast | The Science and Business of Innovative Medicines
Jan 17, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Pande: Real-world evidence will surpass clinical trials in utility
“And what I think we'll start to see is, especially as new statistical methods come online, that real world evidence will be very useful, in some ways will be more useful than what you can do in a clinical trial, both due to power and due to the fact of real li…”
Vijay Pande Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 19:08 a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
Jan 17, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Fox: Patients with data access will form coalitions to demand clinical trials
“When patients all have access to their data, They could form a coalition and ask for a certain clinical trial.”
Susanna Fox Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 28:20 a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
Jan 17, 2019 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Sethi: Over 90% of clinical trials fail to recruit enough patients
“Most clinical trials, upwards of 90% or worse, don't get filled, and it's because there's no frictionless way for a clinical trial's inclusion-exclusion criteria to detect a candidate patient.”
Anil Sethi Jan 17, 2019 ▶ 27:17 a16z Podcast | Dark Data in Healthcare
Jun 28, 2024 bullish
Insight
Pande: Small AI efficiency gains in high-cash-flow clinical trials yield massive impact
“Like, I'm working on, like, something, you know, in drug design or whatever to make big leaps and bounds, and small things for big cash flows can have a huge impact. So something for clinical trials could be huge, or even just picking, like, the order of rank …”
Vijay Pande Jun 28, 2024 ▶ 35:08 Grand Challenges in Healthcare AI with Vijay Pande and Julie Yoo
Oct 3, 2024 negative
Assertion Supported
Ganguli: 80% of clinical trials fail to meet enrollment targets
“Like, 80% of clinical trials just fail to meet enrollment targets, right?”
Surya Ganguli Oct 3, 2024 ▶ 22:51 AI at the Intersection of Bio | Vijay Pande, Surya Ganguli & Bowen Liu
Sep 15, 2025 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Conde: AI has not yet compressed biotech clinical trial timelines
“We still haven't seen, and I think it's coming, but it hasn't happened yet. We haven't seen artificial intelligence or other technologies massively compress the amount of time it takes us to do the clinical development, the clinical trials, the enrollment of p…”
Jorge Conde Sep 15, 2025 ▶ 28:45 Faster Science, Better Drugs
Mar 20, 2026 negative
Assertion Contradicted
Sankar: China now hosts 50% of all global clinical trials
“We used to think Wuxi was just some cheap set of pipetting arms for contract pharmaceutical research, and now, 50% of all clinical trials are being done in China.”
Shyam Sankar Mar 20, 2026 ▶ 31:51 Palantir CTO on The SaaS Apocalypse & Preventing The Next World War | a16z
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