Clinical trial starts slowed to below pre-pandemic levels last year, IQVIA analysis finds

Bio­phar­ma R&D spend­ing re­bound­ed in 2023, up $11 bil­lion from 2022 fol­low­ing a steep post-pan­dem­ic de­cline. But the num­ber of new clin­i­cal tri­al starts slowed to lev­els from be­fore the Covid-19 pan­dem­ic, the da­ta and ser­vices firm IQVIA said in a new re­port.

There are few­er pan­dem­ic-re­lat­ed tri­als, the analy­sis found, but al­so few­er of oth­er types of tri­als be­ing start­ed at both small and large bio­phar­ma com­pa­nies.

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