Intelligent Infrastructure for Clinical Trials

Bento Biology Platforms, Inc. (BENTO), a clinical trial automation company, brings speed and efficiency to clinical research with intelligent infrastructure. BENTO removes operational bottlenecks and enables truly patient-powered drug development. In a rapidly changing world, BENTO provides a bridge between the physical and digital worlds of a clinical trial: data collection, data sharing and data interoperability technologies make clinical research ridiculously easy to implement — anytime, anyplace, anyone, any scale.

Clinical Trials are a Tough Pill to Swallow for Everyone

Bringing a new medicine to market takes too long and costs too much. The burden falls on everyone in the value chain: Patients, Sites and Sponsors. Participants must travel, lose workdays, complete tasks and absorb costs that may never be reimbursed. Sites must establish ‘research ready’ infrastructure with trained staff, which is challenging to sustain, even for elite academic medical centers. Sponsors pay and wait (and wait) for data.

In recent years, certain translational science bottlenecks have become an operational crisis. In the United States, high drop out rates are the leading cause of trial failure (Desai: 88% of all trials) and low participant accrual rates are the leading cause of trial terminations (National Academies: 55% of all Phase I-IV clinical trial terminations). These longstanding chokepoints are exacerbated by the increase in clinical trial complexity, requiring more data collection over longer periods of time.

Today, the volume of investigational new drug applications is growing exponentially, in lockstep with AI-powered drug discovery. But this flood of promising biopharma assets will face the familiar speed bump: finding, enrolling and retaining human participants for the clinical trials that stand between preclinical discovery and medicine cabinet.

Participants will continue to vote with their feet, silently telling the biopharma enterprise that trial participation has become too tough a pill to swallow.

Data Interoperability for the ‘AI Era’ of Clinical Trials

BENTO enables patients to power the digital transformation of medical research. In an era of all-scale digital transformation and biomedical innovation, we focus on transforming the patient experience so human participation in trials does not become the great bottleneck of biomedical progress and human longevity.

Let’s Work Together to Make Your Clinical Trial More Successful.

BENTO’s technology just works. It was co-created with patients, physicians and regulators working side-by-side with software engineers, machine learning computer scientists, Hollywood animators and even toy designers to build a patient experience that would move the needle on clinical trial outcomes. Even with the most distrustful patient communities, BENTO gets “sticky” results.

BENTO is on a mission to build a circular clinical research economy that allows sponsors to bring more medicines to more patients more quickly. Let’s work together a new era of data collection begin!