For physicians
Research inside your practice, run by us
You see the patients. Some of them have a wound that will not close, a condition that standard care has stopped helping, or no good option left on the table. A clinical study can be that option. The obstacle has always been that running one takes a coordinator, a regulatory binder, a monitor visit schedule, and a dozen other things a practice does not have room for.
That is the part we do. Symphony Research places a study in your practice and staffs it. You serve as the principal investigator and see your patients the way you already do. Our coordinators handle everything else.
How it works
- We qualify the fit. A short conversation about your patient population and the studies we have open. If there is a match, we move forward. If not, we tell you.
- We set up the study. Regulatory submissions, IRB approval, sponsor contracting, training, and supplies. Your involvement is a few hours of onboarding and the investigator training the protocol requires.
- We run it in your office. A Symphony coordinator is on site for study visits, manages scheduling and documentation, and is your single point of contact. You provide the clinical oversight and care.
What your patients get
Study-related visits, exams, and the investigational treatment at no cost to them or their insurance. Compensation for their time on most studies. Door-to-door transportation when they need it. And a study team that knows them by name and stays with them from the first visit to the last.
What your practice gets
- Investigator fees, paid per visit plus a monthly amount, set study by study.
- No new staff, no new overhead, no new software. We bring the coordinator, the systems, and the supplies.
- New patients. We run targeted local outreach for each study, and those patients come to your practice.
- Retention. Patients in a study see you more often and stay with the practice.
- Experience as a principal investigator on sponsored research, which is its own credential.
Common questions
Onboarding and protocol training up front, then oversight at study visits. Most investigators find it adds minutes to visits they were already going to have, not hours to their week.
No. Many of our investigators had never run a study before. We train you on the protocol and on good clinical practice, and our coordinator is with you at every visit.
Every study is covered by sponsor-provided indemnification and clinical trial insurance, and every protocol is IRB approved and monitored. We walk you through the specifics for each study before you sign anything.
Most of our work is in wound care: diabetic foot ulcers, venous leg ulcers, and other chronic wounds. We also run studies in other specialties as they come available, and we match studies to practices, not the other way around.
Yes. You can decline any study we bring you, and you can step back from research entirely between studies. We ask only that patients already enrolled are seen through to completion.
A limited number. Each study has an enrollment target and we do not oversaturate a market. If your area is open, we will tell you.
Talk to us
The quickest way to find out if this fits your practice is a 20 minute call. Christian Hering, VP of Business Development, takes these directly.
Book a time using the link on this page, call (800) 711-2006 ext. 101, or email chering@symphonyresearch.com.