Our guest in this episode is the American entrepreneur, Charles Theuer, who has a long career in clinical research and drug development. He shares with us his analysis on the current trends and the future of oncology drug development. In this episode you can learn why there are less cancer clinical trials during the last years and what are the promising therapeutic classes.

Charles has written 2 books which we also discuss in this episode. One of them, Unnecessary Expense, covers important topics in drug development and the importance of self-management of clinical trials which could be of interest for all small companies but also for industry experts.

His books are available on Amazon below:

Unnecessary Expense: An Antidote for the Billion Dollar Drug Problem - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Unnecessary-Expense-Antidote-Billion-Problem-ebook/dp/B09C2JNJ89

Medal Count- https://www.amazon.co.uk/Medal-Count-Fate-Nations-Olympics-ebook/dp/B0F3617YFK?ref_=ast_author_dp

Our guest in this episode of the podcast is Tommaso Prosdocimi, the Clinical Operations Manager of Iperboreal Pharma. Iperboreal Pharma is a small company developing new peritoneal dialysis products. We are discussing the necessity of having more treatment options of patients who need dialysis and also the unique challenges that small companies face in developing such products. Our conversation ends with some recommendations for regulators willing to support the development of dialysis products.

You can read the script of our interview: https://solutionsop.co.uk/2025/07/11/the-reality-of-developing-dialysis-products-conversation-with-tommaso-prosdocimi/

Our latest episode is conversation with our Senior Clinical Data Quality Manager, Lydia Ainsworth, in which we discuss clinical research as a career choice and we give advice to graduates who are interested to work in the field. We cover topics like how to gain experience in clinical research, what universities can do to increase awareness in clinical research as career, if you need degree in biology to work in clinical research, some CV creation tips and many others.

You can read the transcript of the interview at our website here.