WASHINGTON — The Department of Health and Human Services announced a set of new initiatives aimed at speeding up clinical trials by incorporating more artificial intelligence and computational models and moving away from sharply delineated trial phases.
The centerpiece five-year program, dubbed SURPASS — “Simulation-augmented, Real-time Platform Adaptive Seamless Trials” — will kick off later this fall by accepting “ground-breaking ideas from cross-disciplinary teams in statistics, AI, and clinical trial design, operations, and regulation,” reads a website about the program.
HHS is launching the program through the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. The initial announcement did not note how much funding was designated for the new initiatives, nor did it provide details on whether participants would be offered more flexibility or resources.
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