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The Future of the Central Lab: Perspectives from Industry Leaders
20 May 2025

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Clinical trials are evolving. So should your central lab.
Today's clinical trials are more complex than ever before—from accelerated timelines and increasing endpoints to harder-to-reach patients and a shift to non-traditional countries.
To better understand these challenges and the role a central lab should play in solving them, we surveyed more than 100 global biopharma leaders at large, mid-sized and emerging companies.
In this report, we've compiled key feedback on how central labs are uniquely positioned to drive change across key trends:
- Break down silos through stronger collaboration
- Enhance data aggregation and insight sharing
- Provide more region-specific support
- Rapidly deliver quality and consistency across global sites
- Integrate holistic solutions to reduce trial complexity
Explore The Future of the Central Lab: Perspectives from Industry Leaders
Discover key challenges, trends and opportunities biopharma leaders believe will help shape the clinical trial landscape—and the evolving role central labs will play—in the coming years.