Milton Keynes (9 January 2026) – Today, UK based Medical Research Network (MRN), the innovative market-leader of international community-based clinical trial delivery, announces that the first clinical trial home visit has been conducted in South Africa.
MRN is providing ongoing Home Trial Support (HTS) for a Phase 3 chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) study. This service, offering participants the flexibility of in-home visits, can play a key role in enabling ongoing trial participation and ensuring that sites continue to meet trial timelines.
MRN is a global leader in HTS services with nearly 20 years’ experience, having delivered over 122,000 in-home visits globally since its inception in 2006. The HTS service brings clinical trial research visits to patients within their community – expanding trial reach and allowing patients from around the world to participate.
Elaine Wylie, Chief International Development Officer at MRN said: “This is a milestone achievement for our Home Trial Support team. Our skilled project management team, and highly- trained team of dedicated healthcare professionals will be able to make participation in clinical trials in Africa less burdensome for sites and participants while ensuring trial participation is more accessible. This will see a much-needed increase in trial participation from a continent that carries 25% of global disease burden but only participates in roughly 1.1% – 4% global clinical trials. MRN is proud to be working with Sponsors, Sites and Participants to change this.”
This announcement furthers MRN’s goals to accelerate patient recruitment and improve patient engagement and retention through site-centric and patient-centric solutions designed to move trials into the home and community of the patient, reducing the impact of the trial on the patient’s life, a mission we have been on from 20 years as a dominant force in the development and deployment of DCT techniques such as Home Nursing, DCT technologies, Site Support and more.
About MRN
As an innovative market-leader, MRN provides customized solutions to optimize each individual protocol and create more flexible, efficient, and accessible clinical trials that deliver accelerated timelines. Through integrated in-home visit delivery and a vast global network of trained, research ready sites, all empowered by MRN’s digital solutions, MRN engages with and empowers diverse communities around the world to participate in and advance medical research.
MRN has offices in the UK, France, Spain, Germany, USA, and Japan and provides local home trial services across all major clinical research countries spanning North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia, operating in over 70 countries in the last 20 years and conducting more in-home clinical trial visits than any other provider.
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Learn more about MRN’s Home Trial Support services here.
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