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ClinicalTrials.gov + AI_ How to Spot Underinvestigated High-Burden Diseases (Case Study)

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ClinicalTrials.gov is used by everyone in pharma and biotech.

But when you combine it with AI mapping and disease burden data, you can quickly reveal underinvestigated high-burden diseases areas where trial activity lags behind real patient need.

In this 9-minute case study, pharma strategist Mark Tillotson demonstrates how to:

- Apply smart filters to focus on the most relevant trials (company-run, ≤Phase III, exclude healthy volunteers)

- Use AI to map thousands of trials to 172 disease codes in 1 minute instead of days

- Export a clean Excel of 2,400+ trials with mapped disease codes for deeper analysis

- Merge with IHME burden data to instantly see where gaps = opportunities

The workflow was done in AcademicLabs, which integrates ClinicalTrials.gov (and patents, publications, grants, news - all connected to 360° company, lab and researcher profiles) with advanced filters and built-in AI for science-grounded insights.

Try it yourself: New users get AI free on day 1 so you can apply a similar workflow across trials, patents, publications, and grants.

Featuring: Mark Tillotson (Therapeutic Area, Pipeline/Portfolio & Commercialization Strategy) and Arne Smolders (founder of AcademicLabs).

Speakers

Mark Tillotson

Mark Tillotson

Pharma Strategist

Mark Tillotson is a global pharma strategist with deep experience guiding portfolio, pipeline, positioning and commercialization decisions. He has worked across a wide variety of areas, including rare diseases, cardiometabolic, neuroscience, specialty care and oncology. With 15 years of Life Science commercial experience allowing him to connect downstream results to upstream decisions, Mark uses structured approaches blending qualitative and quantitative data to advise organizations on how to build differentiated, innovation-driven portfolios and prepare them for commercial success.

Arne Smolders

Arne Smolders

CEO @ AcademicLabs

Arne Smolders is a scientist turned entrepreneur and the founder & CEO of AcademicLabs. With a background in aging biology research at Ghent University (2011-2015), where he explored the molecular pathways that influence longevity, Arne experienced first-hand how difficult it can be to connect bright scientific ideas with the right expertise, technologies and resources. Motivated by this challenge, he left his PhD program to focus fully on building AcademicLabs with the mission of breaking down silos and bringing transparency to global R&D to facilitate collaboration and impactful research and innovation. Today, AcademicLabs.com is a global AI-driven early-stage research & innovation scouting platform relied upon by scientific analysts, business development teams and researchers at leaders in the biopharma ecosystem. With the entire early-stage research world at your fingertips, you easily find in one place ideal KOLs, rising stars, research collaborators, biotech startups, pharma research, biotech investors, CROs, or identify novel technologies, assets, targets and much more across new ongoing and funded research projects, publications, patents, clinical trials, news, company websites and more.

ClinicalTrials.gov + AI_ How to Spot Underinvestigated High-Burden Diseases (Case Study)

09:00

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