Healthcare Professionals

You, as a Healthcare Professional (HCP), play a key role throughout the clinical trial journey.

Patients often rely on their own HCP network to help them explore clinical trial options.
Clinical research physicians, or principal investigators, are responsible for the safety of clinical trial participants.
HCPs are ultimately the prescribers of medicines that have been developed through clinical trials.

Here you, as a HCP, can find clinical trials that are enrolling, learn how to get involved in clinical research and access clinical trial resources to share with your patients and their care partners who are exploring clinical trial options.

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Get Involved

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Primary Care Physicians

Primary Care Physicians (PCPs) can play an integral role in patient care, in parallel with the study team. Every participant’s path will be different, but when appropriate, PCPs can introduce or explore clinical trials as a potential option, refer patients, provide guidance and a listening ear along the way. PCPs can advocate for their patient, and ultimately continue to care for their patient once a trial is completed. If you have a patient who may be interested in a clinical trial as an option, here you can find a trial.

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Diversity of Investigators and Research Staff

We understand the importance of diversity in all facets of clinical research, and we see the need to ensure diverse representation among research staff, as well as study participants. When it comes to gender, race and ethnicity, our goal is to have our investigators and external partners match the composition of a representative population for each location where we conduct research. Here you can read more about how we act to empower a diverse workforce.

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Support for Investigator Initiated Research

At Lilly, support is available for clinical research that is initiated, designed and sponsored by external researchers.
If you are interested in learning more about this program or submitting a concept, you can visit Investigator Initiated Research site.

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Becoming an Investigator or Research Site

If you are eager to work at the forefront of innovative research, helping to improve patient care and address unmet needs through the development of new medicines, becoming a clinical trial investigator may be an option. If you would like to learn more about becoming an investigator, or what it takes to become a research site, you can call The Lilly Answers Center on 1-800-LILLYRX (1-800-545-5979) or speak to your local Lilly representative.

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CoDESIGN

Designing and implementing clinical trials with patients, patient advocates, investigators and research staff is key to positive experiences. CoDESIGN brings patient and research professionals into clinical development decision making to ensure exceptional clinical trial experiences and trial designs.

Patient Resources

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What is a Clinical Trial

This information sheet summarizes key points that potential participants, care-partners or their loved ones may find helpful when learning about clinical trials and trying to decide if a clinical trial is the right option.

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Questions to Consider Before Starting a Clinical Trial

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Clinical Trials | Key Points

There are many different resources available to help potential participants understand what is involved in clinical trials. We have summarized some of the key points in '10 things you need to know about clinical trials'.

Learning Center

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Decentralized Clinical Trials

At Lilly, we strive to make clinical trials as accessible as possible, meeting participants where they are at. One of the ways we do is this through decentralized clinical trials (DCT's), here you can read about the evolution and different elements of DCT's.