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Clinical Development

Scientific progress depends on smarter execution—but today’s leaders must achieve it while navigating rising trial complexity and a fast-changing tech landscape. As AI creates new opportunities and challenges, ZS helps R&D, clinical operations and technology teams reimagine how clinical development happens.

Our experts, AI-powered platforms and clinical trial consulting solutions connect data, design and delivery to transform trials. With integrated AI, digital tools and real-world data, we help you optimize trial design, streamline execution and make sure every decision is the right one so you can bring therapies to patients faster.
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Challenges we solve

ZS combines deep clinical expertise with practical technology solutions to help sponsors run better trials, faster and smarter. We work across the full research lifecycle—from strategy to submission—to simplify complex data and operating systems, connect data and teams, and bring treatments to patients faster.
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Accelerate digital transformation of clinical development

Reimagine the clinical organization for speed, scale and scientific agility. Modernize end-to-end clinical development by integrating data, digital platforms, AI and in silico approaches to connect teams, streamline operations and enable continuous innovation.

Embed AI in clinical development

Apply AI across the entire clinical development lifecycle, from design and feasibility to execution and submission. Connect your data, predict outcomes and automate workflows to accelerate decisions, increase quality and scale innovation.

Master clinical trials protocol design

Get study designs right the first time, every time, with clinical trial solutions built on RWD, simulation and predictive analytics.

Optimize clinical R&D portfolio strategy

Align investment, risk and value across clinical R&D with our operations and risk management offerings and end-to-end consulting, tech, AI and analytics services.

Elevate data planning and study execution

Design execution plans that connect complex ecosystems of data and build in collection, management and analysis from the start.

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Our approach

See how ZS brings speed, agility and confidence to clinical research and development
We bring the consulting expertise, domain depth and AI-enabled platforms to build clinical trials solutions that accelerate development cycles and get drugs to patients faster.
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Unify design and oversight for faster, smarter trials
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Accelerate study start-up, minimize costly delays. ZS connects trial design, operations and risk management through offerings that allow teams to model scenarios, anticipate issues and act before problems surface.
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Design for people, not just protocols
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Enhance clinical trials planning to boost enrollment, retention and site engagement. ZS applies behavioral insights to understand what motivates investigators, coordinators and patients, then builds experiences that make participation easier, more rewarding and more sustainable.
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Modernize your data foundation for speed and scale
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Get reliable insights sooner. ZS replaces fragmented biometrics and data management systems with automated, AI-enabled workflows that clean, analyze and report data in real time. This way, your evidence is always current, consistent and submission-ready.
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Bring digital and decentralized trials to life
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Expand reach and flexibility while reducing site and patient burden. ZS enables hybrid and decentralized models with an ecosystem of solutions and clinical development services that deliver visibility, efficiency and patient access at scale.
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Build inclusion into every study from the start
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Generate more representative evidence and improve trial credibility. ZS uses patient insights, real-world data and local engagement strategies to identify barriers, design inclusive protocols and strengthen participation among underrepresented populations.
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Explore our products and capabilities

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Trials.AI
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Trials ai, digitize clinical trials
Digitize and optimize clinical trials with intelligent design, faster data flow and automation that keeps studies on track.
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Patient experience bank
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Understand and design for what matters to patients. Patient Experience Bank helps trial teams embed global patient insights into protocols using real-world data and feedback at scale.
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RBQM360
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risk based monitoring
RBQM 360 is ZS’s centralized risk-based monitoring solution that helps sponsors detect issues early, reduce trial risk and improve data quality across global study portfolios.
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ZAIDYN® clinical development
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ZS’s purpose-built platform helps clinical teams design smarter trials, connect data and automate workflows to speed execution and improve decision-making.
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Join our Biopharmaceutical Statistics Leaders Consortium

Meet the peer-led network advancing statistical science in biopharma
The Biopharmaceutical Statistics Leaders Consortium is a ZS-sponsored global community of statistical and quantitative science leaders advancing how data informs decisions across R&D. Members explore common challenges, share practices and co-create solutions that improve the use of statistics in trial design, evidence generation and regulatory engagement. Together, they’re building a stronger, more connected statistical function for biopharma.
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Join our Clinical Feasibility Consortium

Meet the democratic think tank advancing clinical trials and operations
The Clinical Feasibility Consortium is a ZS-sponsored, global initiative uniting clinical operations leaders to identify, prioritize and solve the biopharma industry’s most urgent R&D challenges. United by a shared mission, members collaborate to advance how trials are planned and run—driving progress organizations cannot achieve alone.
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