In 2018, Dr. Alex Logsdon (co-founder) approached Dr. Chris
Ochner (co-founder) with the call to action for Modern Trials.
Alex shared his experience as a practicing physician with many
patients desperately seeking, but unable to find, appropriate
clinical trial opportunities
Having spent his career in clinical trial administration,
Chris’s perspective was that of desperately seeking patients for
trials so he assumed the opportunity was avilable
and failed to recognize the need that Alex described.
A year later, Chris had the unfortunate opportunity to
experience what Alex described from the patient perspective
when his mother, Mae, was diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Chris tried desperately to find a clinical trial for her
but was unable to do so, despite 20 years in the industry.
Realizing that there exists no way for patients in need to gain
access to appropriate clinical trial opportunities,
Chris returned to Alex and said;
“you were right, the system is broken and we need to fix it.”
