A shared infrastructure initiative for better clinical trial information
CTDN helps make clinical trial information more structured, usable, and interoperable across the ecosystem. By improving how trial information is organized, connected, and shared, CTDN helps create better conditions for trial awareness, matching, feasibility assessment, recruitment, and participation.
Delivering impact across three dimensions
By improving how clinical trial information is structured, connected, and shared, CTDN aims to deliver impact across three dimensions
Made WITH Patients
- Better retention rate
- Higher patient satisfaction score
- Lower protocol deviation rate
- Less protocol amendments
- Better protocol feasibility feedback rate
Scientifically representative and diverse
- Better representative population
- Access to underrepresented and underserved groups (e.g. women)
Research Process & Outcome Performance
- Faster first and last patient in
- Better patient recruitment rate
- Lower screen failure rate
How CTDN helps make this possible
Clinical trial information today is often published in long-form, fragmented formats. Important details can be difficult to search, compare, interpret, or reuse across systems and stakeholders.
CTDN helps transform that information into more standardized, enriched, and reusable data that can flow more effectively across the ecosystem.
The CTDN platform acts as a structuring and exchange layer between existing data sources and the systems, organizations, and users who need more usable trial information.
It helps support:
Standardization
More consistent clinical trial data and exchange.
Structuring and assessment
AI-enabled approaches to help structure and assess trial and protocol data.
Connection and enrichment
Better linkage with registries, sponsor databases, and healthcare environments.
Downstream use
Stronger foundations for trial matching, recruitment, retention, and trial design.
What makes CTDN different
CTDN is designed to enable ecosystem innovation, not compete with the organizations already serving patients, sponsors, researchers, and healthcare providers.
Rather than building a closed destination platform, CTDN focuses on creating shared infrastructure that others can build on and use.
What we are
A shared infrastructure layer
We create resources, models, and frameworks that support broader ecosystem use.
A co-creation initiative
We develop solutions together with the partners who will use them.
A standards-aligned enabler
We support more interoperable and reusable approaches to clinical trial information.
What we are not
CTDN is not:
- a trial finder
- a recruitment vendor
- a patient engagement platform
- a substitute for tools that other ecosystem partners are better placed to build
Our role is to strengthen the infrastructure layer that helps those solutions work better.
Built for ecosystem collaboration
CTDN was created as a collaborative initiative to help address a shared infrastructure challenge across the clinical research ecosystem.
It brings together technical, scientific, and ecosystem perspectives to support more usable clinical trial information and wider downstream innovation.
This work depends on collaboration across:
- Standards and technical experts
- Sponsors and researchers
- Healthcare systems and investigators
- Patient organizations and communities
- Platforms and ecosystem partners
Learn more about how CTDN is structured and how collaboration happens in practice.