By Carrie Arnold & Paul Webster – Nature Medicine –
Nature Medicine asks leading researchers to name their top clinical trial for 2024, from base editing and a vaccine against HIV to artificial intelligence tools for lung cancer and patient triage.
Pharma’s ongoing financial woes have continued in 2023, which has left insiders wondering when and how the field will rebound. Despite industry-wide belt-tightening, clinical trials continue even amid lingering shortages of staff — and drugs. With so many rollercoaster years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is impossible to predict exactly what the biomedical world will deliver in 2024.