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I hosted Meri Beckwith, CEO of Lindus Health, on my podcast Development & Research. Meri founded Lindus after being a clinical trial patient—because he was astounded at how badly clinical drug trials were being run by the world's leading companies.
We talk about why clinical trials companies are twenty years behind in adopting new technologies, how a flooded supply closet can cause a billion-dollar clinical trial to fail, and his speculation about the incentives that—so far—have stopped the world from getting better.
Links: { Twitter, YouTube, transcript, Spotify, LessWrong }
Here's a section I particularly enjoyed:
Meri Beckwith:
Yep. We do active patient recruitment for most of the trials we run—and recruitment is a really important, often overlooked, aspect of trials.
If you talk to any executive in pharma and ask, "What's your biggest pain point for clinical trials?" they'll [...]
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First published:
May 21st, 2025
Source:
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/uEntKxTJcpurvjy2w/podcast-how-not-to-waste-a-billion-dollars-on-your-clinical
Linkpost URL:
https://developmentandresearch.bio/episode/meri-beckwith/
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