(photo courtesy Ethan Ocasio)
A group of Northern Virginia high school students is hoping to make it a little easier for vulnerable individuals to connect with clinical trials that might benefit them – with the help of an app they ve been developing over the course of nearly two years.
Ethan Ocasio, Shreeja Kikkisetti and Neeyanth Kopparapu created the Clinical Trial Selector tool in the summer of 2019, as part of the AI Tech Sprint run by the Department of Veterans Affairs National Artificial Intelligence Institute. The problem we re trying to solve came from patients not being able to find trials they re eligible for, and experimenters unable to find people to participate, said Kikkisetti.