Biomedical, Biopharma and Clinical Research

Clinical Research

Clinical Research refers to all or any research carried out on humans (healthy or sick people). It focuses on improving knowledge of diseases, developing diagnostic methods and new treatments or medical devices to make sure better patient care. Medical research studies involving people are called clinical trials. There are two main sorts of trials or studies interventional and observational.

Interventional trials: It aims to seek out more about a particular intervention, or treatment. A computer puts people participating are put into different treatment groups. This is often so that the research team can compare the results.

Observational studies: It aims to seek out what happens to people in different situations. The research team observe the people participating, but they don’t influence what treatments people have. The people participating aren’t put into treatment groups.

There are five stages of Clinical Trails are there

•          Step 1: Discovery and Development.
•          Step 2: Preclinical Research.
•          Step 3: Clinical Research.
•          Step 4: FDA Drug Review.
•          Step 5: FDA Post-Market Drug Safety Monitoring.