Four DOM faculty among those to share expertise at Clinical Trials Development Workshop

Attendees fluctuated throughout the day at the 2024 Clinical Trials Development Workshop, an annual event hosted by the University of Arizona Cancer Center and the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Division of Hematology & Oncology Chief Rachna Shroff, MD, MS, on Friday, June 21.

Held in the HSIB Forum of the Health Sciences Innovation Building, the workshop ran from 7:30 a.m. until 2 p.m., and drew a variety of faculty, researchers and staffers across the U of A Health Sciences.

Dr. Shroff also is associate dean of clinical and translational research, at the College of Medicine – Tucson, and interim clinical affairs director, at the UArizona Cancer Center.

Following a continental breakfast, Dr. Shroff kicked off the event by welcoming attendees at 8:15 a.m. and introducing Aaron Scott, MD, co-leader of the Cancer Center’s Clinical & Translational Oncology Program and a Hem-Onc division faculty member. Dr. Scott gave an overview entitled Clinical Trials 101 in which he pointed out drug discovery spending on oncology was expected to be $208 billion by 2022 and $300 billion by 2026, according to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. He then walked everyone through different clinical trial phases, offering teasers and tips of things to look out for along the way.

Other speakers and topics included: Rakhi Gibbons, licensing and intellectual property director, Tech Launch Arizona; Simona Janish, assistant director, Human Subjects Protection Program, U of A Office of Research, Innovation & Impact, and Sally Radovick, MD, director, Health Sciences’ Clinical and Translational Science Institute. 

Later in the day, Dr. Shroff hosted a clinical trials panel discussion that included Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, chief of the Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine, and director of the Center for Sleep, Circadian & Neuroscience Research, as well as Daniel Butler, MD, director, Inflammatory & Aging Skin Research Program, Division of Dermatology, and assistant dean for student affairs, College of Medicine – Tucson.

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You can see more photos from the Clinical Trials Development Workshop 2024 at this DOM flickr webpage.

(Photos courtesy of David Mogollon, Department of Medicine communications manager.)

DOM calendar item for this event, including full list of speakers and agenda.