The Axiom-2 mission successfully launched on May 21, 2023 and we are proud to be a part of this historic mission supporting it’s pre-flight and post-flight data collection with the TrialX xPAND app. The xPAND team worked hard to be mission ready and our app was used by the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) to collect all pre-flight data! The astronauts landed back safely on May 30 and will be surveyed again for post-flight data. TrialX xPAND database equips space researchers to reuse and integrate research data across different research studies and unlock innovative actionable insights. Learn more.
What’s new at TrialX?
📈 AsMA CONFERENCE 2023
We were on the panel with the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) and other space medicine scientists at the Aerospace Medical Association’s 93rd Annual Scientific Meeting, presenting EXPAND DB – the database built in collaboration with TRISH using TrialX xPAND. This is the first database of human health & environmental data from commercial space flights architected to support a variety of data types across a multitude of individual research studies. The database currently houses data from subjects across five space missions – Inspiration 4, MS-20, Axiom-1, Axiom-2 and Polaris Dawn. Our abstract was accepted as a panel presentation in the session entitled “Commercial spaceflight applications for space medicine: A multi-carrier and mission agnostic standardized approach” chaired by TRISH. Learn more.
🎍WELCOMING NEW MEMBER
Paul Donnelly joins TrialX as Chief Strategy Officer. He brings in more than 20 years of experience having extensively built alliances through strategy, business development and marketing within life sciences and healthcare. Paul successfully commercialized the clinical trial platform of an early stage startup and helped another clinical trial technology startup propel through a $40M Series B.
LATEST CURETALKS
Watch Dr. Carolyn Alexander, Associate Professor-OBGYN, UCLA, discuss the hopes and uncertainties around egg freezing – a procedure opted by an increasing number of women who are seeing it as an insurance to be able to start or expand a family more flexibly. Watch here.
🗃️PRODUCT UPDATES
Our latest iConnect release facilitates patient engagement and retention of the enrolled participants. The system will now allow sites to send visit reminders and survey completion reminders through emails or SMS based on the enrollment date of each patient within the system and manage other study activities. Schedule a demo to learn more.
Using TrialX xPAND researchers at the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine developed Zing PainApp to monitor pain, medication use and quality of life domains such as mood, mobility, return to work, and sleep in patients with neurogenic pain and those with limb loss. The app successfully allowed the study team to gather eConsent, collect survey data and link to phone sensors and wearables to track steps data remotely for more than 2.5 years. Learn more.
👨💻 WEBINAR AVAILABLE ON DEMAND
In our recent webinar we shared how researchers are leveraging mobile health technology to gather eConsent, integrate wearable/sensor data into their study app and collect anonymous data from patients over time remotely.
🧬Featured Clinical Studies powered by TrialX iConnect
DID YOU KNOW? An epidemic of chronic kidney disease is occurring in laborers who undertake physical work outdoors in hot conditions. The reason for this is unknown, but may be related to changes in kidney function due to increases in body temperature and dehydration. Learn more.
Telehealth Recovery and Resilience Program: This new mobile application is meant to do several things, such as provide education regarding recovering from traumatic injuries and traumatic illness, track mental health symptoms, and promote connections to mental health service utilization, when appropriate. Learn more.
The Shift Worker’s Microbiome: We are looking for healthy males, age 40-59 years old, non-smoking un-medicated who work the “shift-work” schedule (>3 shifts per month outside 7 am-6 pm for the past 10 or more years & own a smartphone which installs the remote sensing applications. Learn more.
🌏AROUND THE WEB
- 🚀Axiom-2: Launched! Crew’s first check-in from orbit.
- 🤖Deepfakes: The incredible creativity and the worrying future of AI.
- 🧬Pangenome: No genetic variation left out!
- 🗳️FDA on DCT: “clear as mud”…questions remain.
🗣️TEAM UPDATES
What is success? It is a personal quest to fulfill your potential! Our Co-founder & CEO, Dr. Sharib Khan was invited to talk about success and share the TrialX winning story on May 18, 2023 at the BAJ Accelerator Program that supports startups to become increasingly investable. Learn more.
🏆Founder’s Award
Our talented engineer Syed Gufran Ahmad received the founder’s award – the award of highest accomplishment for stellar engineering! Gufran has been instrumental in delivering end-to-end data repository systems for space flight participants, handling diverse data types, developing solutions for genomic storage and implementing BI tools.
🌄Beautiful Srinagar!
We had some great team interaction and bonding in Srinagar after an internal audit – camping, hiking, cricket, great food and fun in the beautiful town of Sonamarg! Sonamarg is a hill station in Jammu and Kashmir and holds historical significance as a gateway on the ancient Silk Road, connecting Kashmir with Tibet.
Happy Clinical Trials Day 2023!
Interestingly this year, Clinical Trials Day coincided with the historic Ax-2 mission launch and we take this opportunity to thank the researchers and clinicians involved in pushing the boundaries of clinical research along with the patients and all commercial astronauts for being research participants!
We look forward to be able to bridge the gaps in clinical research here on earth and in space. Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to look up to the moon!
