Clinical trials are facing an increasing need to go virtual, and with that change comes opportunity and challenge. At the GCP Summit earlier this month, Agatha’s Head of North American Operations, Ken Lownie, hosted a panel of clinical trial experts to get their views...
It appears that the time has arrived to get real about remote monitoring for virtual and remote clinical trials. At the recent Virtual Clinical Trials conference, I gave a talk on the role of emerging technologies in enabling virtual clinical trials. I was stunned at...
Jean-Guillaume Lafay created his first company when he was 17. Then he started two more. At the same time, he studied biotechnology but had to stop because his companies were doing well, and he needed to focus on them. When he was 28, he picked his studies up again,...
I owe an apology for mangling his art to Richard S. Castellano, who improvised the famous line from the movie The Godfather. But I wanted to have a bold statement in the title about the fact that software platforms, those expensive unwieldy monoliths on which we have...
I have had nine - count them nine - meetings with Clinical Operations leaders at small, early-stage biotechs in the last week. After hearing what life is like when trying to usher an organization's first pipeline products through the clinical trial process, a...
Sunday, March 8, 2020, was International Women’s Day and it’s a day that we recognize at Agatha not just to celebrate all the women in the world who are doing great things for their companies and their families but to also recognize the hard work and efforts of the...
I try not to count them, but I think I have been in the enterprise software business for about 35 years. And if it is more, please keep it to yourself. One thing I know is that we are all too old for a sandbox. The buying and selling of software for businesses has...
Ken Lownie recently joined Agatha as the head of North American Operations. We caught up with him to get his perspective on the state of software solutions for Life Sciences companies. Editor: Hi Ken, Welcome back! Ken Lownie: Thanks a lot. I am really excited to be...
In choosing a title for this blog, I REALLY wanted to call it, “It’s Usability, Stupid.” But I recently had my two young nephews here, and they told me that “stupid” is a bad word and I should not say it... so there you go. James Carville coined the phrase "it’s the...
Boston, USA; Tokyo, Japan; Lyon, France, January 22, 2020. Agatha, a provider of business applications for life sciences companies, announced today that Ken Lownie has joined the company as its head of North American Operations. Lownie is an enterprise software...