Clinical Research Operations · India
Field-level infrastructure for population-scale screening in India.
Dognosis Biosciences runs the operational stack required to deploy screening for cancer and other non-communicable diseases at community level — across diverse Indian geographies, in regional languages, with quality systems built for regulatory scrutiny.
The thesis
Operations is the bottleneck.
Population screening in India is not bottlenecked by diagnostic technology. It is bottlenecked by the operations layer beneath it.
Recruitment is hard.
Asymptomatic, high-risk, family-history cohorts don't show up by accident. They have to be found.
Last-mile logistics are unforgiving.
Cold chains, sample integrity, vendor networks — the difference between a usable sample and a discarded one.
Data capture is broken.
Most field studies still run on paper, WhatsApp, and Excel. Connectivity, language, and device assumptions all fail in semi-rural settings.
Follow-up is informal.
Outcome tracking is a regulatory expectation. At population scale, it has to be structured — not ad-hoc.
What we do
We run the operations layer that screening programs depend on.
Camp operations
Recruitment, eligibility screening, consent, sample collection, and on-site participant flow — designed for community settings, not tertiary hospitals.
Sample integrity & chain-of-custody
QR-tagged collection, cold-chain protocols built for Indian climatic realities, and time-stamped handoffs from camp to laboratory.
Quality systems
Documented SOPs, CRC training curricula, and supervision structures aligned with ICH-GCP and the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019.
What we build
Two layers of operational capability.
The methodology layer accrues automatically as we operate. The technology layer is built deliberately, one system at a time, against the operational gap that hurts most.
Methodology layer
Documented SOPs, CRC training curricula, cold-chain protocols, QA frameworks, recruitment playbooks for low-trust populations, and the operational benchmarks that emerge from running the operation. Proprietary, copyrightable, and commercially valuable as a CRO playbook.
Technology layer
Software that makes our operations more capable than the manual baseline of paper, WhatsApp, and Excel. Five candidate areas, all sponsor-agnostic, all owned by DBPL:
Recruitment & eligibility intelligence
ML pre-screening over patient information and CHW networks for asymptomatic high-risk and family-history cohorts.
Field-level data capture
Offline-first, voice-enabled, multilingual electronic case report forms for camp-based collection.
Sample integrity verification
Phone-camera seal checks, ambient temperature logging, time-stamped chain-of-custody at every handoff.
Adverse event detection
NLP layer that converts unstructured follow-up — calls, WhatsApp, CRC notes — into structured AE/SAE signals.
Yield optimisation
Predictive model over operational data that recommends where to run the next camp to hit enrolment targets.
Positioning
A CRO, not a captive.
DBPL is structured as a Contract Research Organisation. Our SOPs, software, training curricula, and aggregate operational data are designed from the outset to be portable across sponsors and screening modalities — preserving the optionality to serve any sponsor, on any modality, at population scale.
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Run a population-scale study with operational rigor.
Whether you're a sponsor, a study site, an academic partner, or a grant-funded programme — talk to us about deploying your screening modality in Indian field conditions.