Deadline for Submissions: October 16, 2026
Please note: Each company, site, or partnership group may submit only one entry for award consideration.
WHAT IS IT?
We are excited to announce our 4th Annual Site Innovation Award, recognizing sites and partnerships pioneering new approaches to improve clinical trials. This is an opportunity to highlight your successes and be recognized by your peers for your dedication to advance clinical research. By sharing your actionable solutions, you will inform the broader Clinical Operations Community at SCOPE.
Our definition of innovation is inclusive of low-tech or high-tech solutions, or any site operations-related process improvements that effectively reduce site burden and improve a site’s ability to advance clinical research while providing patient-centered care.
Potential areas for consideration might include:
- Processes that improve site operational efficiency
- Study activation innovation
- Partnerships and/or processes improving community engagement and diversity
- New technologies that enhance, empower, and improve operations
- Innovative data capture, transfer, and integration
- Innovative vendor partnerships
- Measures that demonstrate cost savings or improved efficiencies
- Measurable successes in patient-centered care
- Successes in staff training, support, career ladders, retention, and/or inclusivity
WHO IS IT FOR?
We welcome submissions from sponsors, sites, site networks, academic medical centers, CROs, and service providers who are leveraging new technologies, processes, workflows, and/or partnerships in an effort to modernize clinical trials while reducing site burden.
We encourage individual organizations or teams collaborating in novel ways to submit.
- Site or Site Network
- Sponsor+Site
- Technology Provider+Site
- CRO+Site
- Site+CRO+Sponsor
- CRO+Technology Provider+Site
- etc.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
All submissions will be reviewed by our panel of industry experts representing perspectives from various sides of the clinical operations ecosystem. Finalists will be selected to present their work in-person at SCOPE, taking place March 1-4, 2026 in Orlando, Florida, where our judges will choose a winner and runner up.
HOW TO WIN?
We’re looking for real-world innovations that help clinical research sites thrive. Your submission should demonstrate a clear, measurable improvement to site operations, site sustainability, or patient-centered care. This is not about flashy tech for tech’s sake—it’s about practical, impactful innovations or interventions that enable sites to be more effective and efficient in delivery.
We are looking for:
- Solutions that reduce site burden and enable staff to do their best work
- Approaches that improve diversity, community engagement, and trial access
- Innovations that streamline workflows, improve data flow, or enhance activation
- Technologies or partnerships that make clinical trials easier to conduct—and easier for patients to participate in
Helpful questions to address in your submission:
- What challenge were you trying to solve at the site level?
- What made your approach new or different?
- Who did you partner with, and how?
- What measurable impact did your innovation have?
- How did it improve site performance, sustainability, or patient experience?
Judges will be looking for:
- Practical innovation that advances trial execution
- Creativity in process, partnership, or technology
- Clarity of results and impact on the clinical research ecosystem
- Feasibility and scalability for other sites or sponsors to adopt
The bottom line: if it helped a site succeed, we want to hear about it.
Deadline for Submissions: October 16, 2026
Please note: Each company, site, or partnership group may submit only one entry for award consideration.
Co-Chairs:
Amanda Wright, Co-Founder & COO, Javara
Irfan Khan, CEO, Circuit Clinical
Judges:
Angela DeLuca, Associate Vice President, Global Study Operations, Amgen
Joe Dustin, Senior Director, Digital Clinical Development, Sanofi
Sean Soth, Senior Vice President, Strategy and Global Business Partnerships, SCRS
Karen Correa, PhD, Vice President, Development Operations, Boehringer Ingelheim
2026 Site Innovation Award Winner
Winner: Predoc: Faster Enrollment with Automated Medical Record Retrieval and Review
2026 Site Innovation Award Runner Up
Runner Up: TrialScreen & AMRC: Everyone is Searching for Something...We Just Want to Help Them Find You
2026 Site Innovation Awards Finalists
