Operations and supply chain project could save lives in cancer clinical trials
Posted on: May 14, 2021; Updated on: May 14, 2021
By Marjorie Riddle Duffie, marjorie.duffie@moore.sc.edu, 803-576-7337
A team of Moore School operations and supply chain students learned during the spring semester how they could save a life without ever stepping foot in a hospital.
Team members were focused on reducing the time it takes Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina to activate industry-sponsored cancer clinical trials. Their recommendations for more efficient processes could get a patient started on a trial before their cancer becomes terminal, and the treatment could be approved faster by