Axon Clinical Research
Axon Clinical Research Network consists of a group of independently owned investigator sites located throughout the United States and W. Africa.
Axon Clinical Research was founded to address a well-known clinical trial challenge: the lack of diversity in clinical research which affect both the subject population as well as the doctors that manage these studies.
Black patients often do not participate in trials due to various reasons. Some of them include their general distrust of research based on previous history of gross unethical mistreatment. For example, the Tuskegee syphilis experiment – an unethical clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service; lack of access to a research site and lastly, the patient unwillingness to leave their primary physician. Furthermore, the role of principal investigator (the physician who prepares and carries out the clinical trial protocol) is grossly under-represented by black physicians with less than 1% heading clinical studies. The team at Axon are looking to change this by representing minority populations in clinical research.
