For COVID-19, like all illnesses, the drugs and vaccines to treat or prevent the disease must be backed by rigorous evidence. Clinical trials are the source of this evidence.Dr. Mindy Aisen is a neurologist with the Alzheimer’s Therapeutic Research Institute at the University of Southern California. Her team has been developing and overseeing all phases of clinical trials for decades, and with vaccines and drugs for the coronavirus already entering human testing, She explains what the different phases of clinical trials are testing for.



The full article is available to read at The Conversation US: https://theconversation.com/the-different-phases-of-clinical-trials-explained-by-a-professor-of-neurology-138197