Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced a multiyear partnership with Medidata Acorn AI, a Dassault Systèmes company leading the digital transformation of life sciences. Through this partnership, the PPD clinical research business of Thermo Fisher has collaborated with Medidata to develop PPD TrueCast, a comprehensive enterprise application combining extensive patient recruitment and site performance data with predictive models and advanced analytics. Offering one of the industry’s most wide-ranging representations of real-time site performance combined with machine learning, this new platform gives pharmaceutical and biotech companies actionable insights to optimize clinical research site selection, trial enrollment and study cycle times.