Seamless remote clinical trial (and research) experience for patients and researchers.
Clinical Research
Digital Therapeutics
Health Equity
Nexus is a research platform and database that allows you to participate in both in-person and remote studies (mainly for Dtx and video games) in a manner that is secure, easy and reliable.
Decentralized platform used by UCSF/Neuroscape and other partner institutions from academia and the industry to conduct clinical trials with digital applications (Dtx) and video games.
It allows participants to enroll in studies, execute tasks and surveys, get reminders, track progress and get rewarded.
The translational neuroscience center at UCSF (Neuroscape) needed to build a clinical research platform from scratch, aimed at scaling and expanding different clinical studies so they could be run remotely in different parts of the country and the world.
Neuroscape couldn’t find a suitable alternative of an RCT/research platform that could support clinical studies with video games (data collection in these studies is tricky) and that could also serve as a common back end to collect data from the multiple clinical research programs they run using technology in the cognitive space.
Alternova designed, develops and maintains these platform today for UCSF and for other institutions and companies who have partnered with them to use this technology.
25K
patients have taken part in studies through this platform
Other institutions like MIT, UCONN, University of Texas – Dallas, Univerisity of Geneva, University of Jerusalem, and Akiliy Interactive have leveraged the data collection capabilities of Nexus, to conduct trials and measurements using UCSF’s video games.
50%
reduction has been achieved in participant enrollment time
Other institutions like MIT, UCONN, University of Texas – Dallas, Univerisity of Geneva, University of Jerusalem, and Akiliy Interactive have leveraged the data collection capabilities of Nexus, to conduct trials and measurements using UCSF’s video games.
Features:
Participant management with guardian-dependent functionalities for children and elders
Flexible participant randomization, arm assignment and quota assignments for easier representation of populations within research
Automatic arm assignation, arm closing, arm reopening based on rules set by the study teams
Independent arm task assignation
Integration with Qualtrics for demographic data collection
An SDK for Unity video game connection
Versatile task system for application setup
Data Analysis capabilities with preprocessed reports downloads for integration with reasearch pipelines
“Our project manager is top-notch and keeps the lines of communication open. Alternova consistently offers ideas for streamlining our processes”.
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