Why Do Promising Clinical Trials Fail?

March 18, 2011

Ethics experts Jonathan Kimmelman, associate professor at McGill’s Biomedical Ethics Unit and Department of Social Studies of Medicine, Montreal; and Alex John London, associate professor of philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, examined a string of failed clinical trials and they come to the conclusion that researchers base their predictions on successful pre-clinical studies done on animals. But when, later on, human trials are involved, the new drug fails. (MedIndia)