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PNAS Nexus· 2026Q1

Complementary roles of virtual and real trials in medicine: An interplay of virtuous spirals

Ehsan Samei, Liesbeth Vancoillie, Michael Wilde, Alejandro F. Frangi et al.

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Virtual trials offer epistemic opportunities to add mechanistic explainability to the predictive inference of real-world clinical trials.

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Abstract Virtual trials provide medical knowledge and practical methods for generating evidence through computational methods. But extending beyond those advantages, they offer epistemic opportunities to add mechanistic explainability to predictive inference of real trials. Relating the distinct contributions and ontology of virtual and real trials enables a transformative convergence of biological and clinical insights that they embody.

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