Clinical Trials

Clinical trials bring about treatments, vaccines, medical devices, and other clinical technologies…The advancement of clinical development and the future of medicine relies on clinical trial participants.

Clinical trials are research studies in which researchers assign participants to get one or more interventions to test what happens in people. Because of this, clinical trials are also called interventional studies. Often, the intervention is investigational, which means it is not yet approved for doctors to prescribe to people. Clinical trials must be evaluated and approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before participants enroll in the trial.

The FDA enforces laws and regulations established by the Agency to protect the health and safety of participants in clinical trials. The FDA reviews all investigational new drugs/diagnostics to determine if the investigational drug/diagnostic meets standards on safety and other protocol parameters. All clinical trials must be subjected to rigorous safety standards to ensure they are carried out in a safe and ethical manner.

In some clinical trials, researchers assign participants to interventions randomly. This means that researchers assign the participants by chance. Usually, participants (or their doctors) don’t choose what intervention they will get when they join a clinical trial.

Clinical trials help determine if medicines, medical devices, and other clinical tests are safe and effective. Every doctor-prescribed treatment, medication, and medical device on the market today has underwent a clinical trial. Treatments yielding life-saving medications all exist because of people who participated in a clinical trial.

By participating in a clinical trial, you can help researchers uncover better ways to treat conditions that may affect you, your loved ones, and future generations.

It is our mission at Research by Design to exercise the highest standards of quality throughout the clinical process. We have numerous, highly qualified investigators and sub-investigators specialized in nephrology and urology serving a diverse population of patients, including healthy volunteers.