Joining forces: A call for greater collaboration to study new medicines in children and adolescents with type 2 diabetes

Abstract

A collaborative effort will facilitate the collection of adequate and well-controlled pediatric efficacy and safety clinical trial data to inform pediatric use of new drugs to treat T2D. An approach relying on a multiarm trial is one particularly attractive approach that leverages efficiencies gained from use of a shared control group, with efficiencies gained from a shared research infrastructure. Success in pediatric drug development has often involved collaboration. Indeed, reliance on consortia-based approaches to evaluate novel therapies was successful for other relatively uncommon pediatric diseases (e.g., juvenile idiopathic arthritis and schizophrenia) and should be met with similar success in T2D.