BIOSPECIMEN MANAGEMENT STANDARDIZATION AT RESEARCH SITES
Ensure research site sampling compliance
Slope standardizes biospecimen management at research sites, from kit supply to collection, processing, storage, and shipment. This significantly reduces biospecimen compliance challenges, increases efficiency, and yields more comprehensive biospecimen data.
Ensure site adherence to study biospecimen procedures and prevent sampling errors
Slope’s guided sample workflows enable sites to follow precise sampling instructions and automatically produce associated documentation with an audit trail.
By establishing guardrails for sample collection, processing, storage, and shipment, Slope prevents missed assessments and lost or mishandled samples, increasing site compliance.
Slope’s amendment management standardizes study changes or amendments, which enables rapid sample management workflow changes across all sites as soon as changes are approved — ensuring clinicians always follow the most recent study requirements.
Monitor real-time site inventory levels
Slope’s inventory availability and utilization tracking provides sponsors with visibility into clinical inventory including shipments, receipt, quantity, and expiry.
Additionally, Slope ensures sites have the correct kits available to collect samples according to study documents.
Close critical gaps in sample visibility & chain of custody
Slope controls the biospecimen lifecycle and improves the speed, accuracy, visibility, and access to biospecimen data for sponsors — closing the gap by connecting disparate stakeholders and data systems within a singular platform.
Gain real-time visibility to sample status
See every step of a sample's journey from collection, processing, storage, shipping, and beyond — across the entire biospecimen lifecycle.
Monitor expected vs actual sample activity as it happens
Reveal issues or deviations in sample collection and processing in real-time vs weeks or months, enabling faster risk mitigation and data availability.
Easily produce interim study progress reports
Fulfill your regulatory obligations for oversight, and make critical go/no-go decisions throughout your study.
SAMPLE DATA RECONCILIATION AND DISCREPANCY MANAGEMENT
Alleviate the burden of sample‑related queries and reconciliation
Slope automated workflows significantly reduce sample-related discrepancies and queries. Through integrations with any EDC and LIMS, Slope enables proper data integrity, harmonization, and expedited resolution to sample discrepancies.
Avoid EDC and lab queries with e-requisition forms, e-manifests, and harmonized site to lab data to enable faster data reconciliation
Slope significantly reduces EDC and lab queries related to mismatched data due to manual handwritten forms and transposition errors by fully digitizing the data and integrating data sources.
Through controlling sample data collection, processing, and shipping, we ensure data continuity between sites and lab vendors to result in less discrepancies and faster data reconciliation.
Reduce sample shipment errors
Slope’s digital platform reduces human error that results in missing data, incorrect shipments, or illegible information on written forms.
Clinical research site adoption and usage
The only site‑centric solution that delivers biospecimen data you can trust
Slope was built with and for site staff — which is why it’s been adopted by nearly 80% of NCI‑designated cancer centers, and has a growing site community of thousands of sites that perform their daily activities directly in the system.
SLOPE CLIENT SERVICES & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
Expertise that empowers sponsors to make informed decisions using high-quality, real-time biospecimen data
Slope Client Services are offered to every Biospecimen360™ customer, providing sponsors with dedicated support from biospecimen operations and data management specialists. Our experts assist with the setup, execution, and optimization of biospecimen workflows, ensuring that study teams can fully leverage the software’s capabilities.
Whether it’s monitoring study performance, troubleshooting issues, or advising on best practices, our team is there to empower sponsors to navigate the complexities of biospecimen management with confidence.
We recognize that the power of real-time sample data can be a game-changer for clinical trials, but it’s not enough to just have the data — you have to operationalize it. When sponsors become Biospecimen360™ software customers, our biospecimen operations and data management experts become an extension of their team, guiding them through every phase of the trial at every touchpoint of the biospecimen lifecycle."
Mark Melton
Vice President, Biospecimen Data & Operations
For sponsors looking to take their biospecimen operations to the next level, Slope also offers Professional Services — a premium, customizable service package that extends beyond the support offered to every customer.
Slope’s SMEs provide deep expertise in protocol design, vendor selection, and sample collection workflows. By offering strategic guidance and operational oversight, these services help sponsors streamline trial execution, maintain quality standards, and meet critical timelines.
Slope's professional services include:
Advising on schedule of assessments design/implementation and overall clarity of protocol design to inform the lab manual and lab specifications
Selecting and managing vendors
Creating and implementing sample and data workflows
Advising on and managing global biospecimen compliance and documentation
Slope’s professionals deliver robust monitoring and reconciliation of biospecimen movement and metadata. These services ensure accurate, real-time tracking throughout the biospecimen lifecycle, minimizing deviations and safeguarding sample integrity.
Biospecimen Data Management
From study setup to final database lock, Slope’s experts oversee all aspects of sample metadata management. These services ensure rigorous data governance, seamless data transfers, and streamlined reconciliation processes — all of which are essential for compliant and efficient trial operations.
Slope's professional services include:
Governing data across all vendors
Developing customized data workflows
Offering rigorous reconciliation support, including query management
Managing final database locks and document compliance
