Lessons from Healey ALS on how to build platform trials quickly

The first ever platform trial in ALS provides a recipe for getting these collaborative studies off the ground quickly and with early buy-in from companies.

Platform trials take advantage of a master protocol to test multiple agents in a single trial with a shared placebo arm. Their advantages are numerous but chief among them is that their adaptive design gets to answers faster, while the shared control arm means more patients are able to receive therapy. ...