Mayo Clinic To Initiate Clinical Trials Using Blockchain Technology

• Blockchain Council
• May 03, 2024

Mayo Clinic, an American company, along with Traill, a Dutch Blockchain company, have joined hands. It is reported that they have come together to begin clinical trial designs. It is a revolutionary step for any clinical trial as it will solve many problems and help in improving the future. Reportedly, the said trail will commence in September 2022.

The trail will include doc management, oversight of the study, data assimilation, and consent. As per Traill, the partnership aims to utilize the blockchain to set an immutable public ledger audit trail to establish strong and ethical clinical studies going forward. Researchers, regulators, and stakeholders can confidently review and assess such trial-related data when the records cannot be altered..

As per the statistics, the clinical trial in the U.S. costs almost $19 million. Starting from precilinical till the end, including approvals for chemical units and biologics, stretch between 10-20% and add continuous research for years.

Verial eTMF, which was introduced by Triall in 2018, is the company’s first blockchain product. The company aids in research for the production of verifiable evidence of the clinical trial material, such as diagnostic information. They are creating APIs to enable third-party software suppliers to use Traill’s blockchain ecosystem. For infrastructure utilities, such as compensating clinical trial participants, the native TRL coin is created. If the project is a success, Triall intends to continue working with the Mayo Clinic on decentralized medical research.

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