In June 2025, the Food and Drug Administration rolled out Elsa, an agency-wide generative AI assistant that officials say is already helping to speed the review of new drugs and devices and shrink weeks of paperwork into minutes. It is a vision that could reshape how lifesaving therapies reach patients, but Elsa’s first six months…
Precision medicine made trials smarter. It also made recruitment harder.
In statistics and machine learning, there’s a tradeoff between precision and recall: tune a system to be more selective and you inevitably miss more true positives. Cancer clinical trials have stumbled into a similar trap. As oncology has shifted from tumor-type-centered studies to gene-directed approaches, eligibility criteria have grown exquisitely precise. Instead of enrolling patients…
Proscia launches ‘Aperture’ AI platform to accelerate clinical trial recruitment at point of diagnosis
Only 7.1% of U.S. adults with cancer enroll in treatment trials (JCO, 2024), a bottleneck that slows drug development and limits access to targeted therapies. Proscia, a Philadelphia-based digital pathology company, aims to address that dynamic with its new tool, Aperture, which uses AI to flag potential candidates right at the point of diagnosis by…