Sapion Health
Intelligence OS for Clinical Research
Principle

Access to breakthroughs should not depend on a patient's zip code.

The science is ready. The system to deliver it is not.

The Problem Clinical trials still run on fragmented, manual workflows.

~9 yrs

from first-in-human testing to market for a cancer therapy

~80%

of trials miss their initial enrollment timelines

5-6 mo

from site identification to site activation

<5%

of the U.S. population takes part in clinical research

Behind every one of those numbers is the same cause: each new protocol has to be turned into hundreds of manual decisions and tasks across disconnected systems.

Every new trial adds more work. Not more capacity.


The operational bottlenecks.

  1. Start-Up Protocol → Activation Feasibility, budgets, contracts, regulatory submissions, and EHR builds are recreated for every study.
  2. Enrollment Matching a Patient → Right Trial Teams search fragmented patient data and manually interpret complex eligibility criteria.
  3. Execution Translating a Protocol → Daily Work Coordinators translate protocol requirements into different tasks across EHR, CTMS, EDC, labs, imaging, and other disconnected systems.

When the trial changes, the protocol changes, and the manual work starts again.


The consequence

Trials move too slowly and reach too few patients.

At major research centers

Growing trial volume overwhelms teams and slows activation.

Across other health systems

The same operational burden limits the number of trials they can offer.

For some the constraint is speed. For others, access to clinical trials. The underlying problem is the same: limited operational capacity.


The downstream effect

Trials concentrate where the infrastructure already exists.

Cancer patients are everywhere. Clinical trial infrastructure is not.

Where cancer burden is highest, trials are often the furthest away.

What if running more trials didn't require more infrastructure?

The Platform Our Intelligence OS makes every trial easier to run.

Clinical research already has its systems of record. What it lacks is intelligence across them.

Sapion turns the protocol into action, driving start-up, patient identification, and execution across the clinical research technology stack.

Current
Pipeline
PL.01
Sapion Nexus
Know what needs to happen next.

The protocol intelligence layer that turns trial requirements into actionable workflows across systems of record.

Next
PL.02
Sapion Mosaic
Captured once, flows to the EDC.

The eSource-to-EDC data layer: capture source at the visit, code it, and reconcile it straight into the sponsor's EDC.

Pipeline
Our Story From the Founder

Vision

The right trial, within reach of every patient.

Make trials easier to run, so more hospitals can offer them and more patients can access them closer to home.

Science is advancing faster than ever. Discoveries that once took a generation now arrive in years. But for a patient waiting for treatment, that progress means little until it reaches them.

Across 15 years in clinical research, from development and operations to regulatory, data, and safety, I saw the same problem again and again: the science was advancing, but the infrastructure to deliver clinical trials remained complex, fragmented, and heavily manual.

Eligible patients were missed. Research teams spent their time navigating disconnected workflows and systems. Trials took months to open.

The science is ready.
The path to the patient is not.

Sapion Health exists to close that gap.

We are building the intelligence infrastructure that makes clinical trials easier to start, find, and run, connecting the people, workflows, and systems required to deliver a trial.

The goal is bigger than efficiency. When trials become easier to run, more hospitals can participate, more communities can offer research, and more patients can access the right trial closer to home.

Our vision is simple: the right patient, the right trial, at the right time, wherever they receive care.

Because a breakthrough that cannot reach the patient is not enough.

Praneeth Chebrolu, MD, MSCR
Leader in Democratizing Clinical Trials
Founder, Sapion Health
Sapion: Sapien, the human, and io, the Intelligence OS. Human judgment, intelligently operated.
Investors A new category in clinical research

Sapion is the Operating System for Clinical Research.

A shared AI layer connects fragmented systems, workflows, and stakeholders, turning disconnected tools into one unified enterprise.

Stage
Pre-Seed · 2026
Category
Intelligence OS for Clinical Research
First Product
Sapion Catalyst · Study Start-Up
Status
Platform in development · Active health-system discussions
Raise
Pre-seed round to complete the agentic AI platform and launch initial deployments

Join us to democratize clinical trials.

Sapion is in private preview with select health systems, research centers, and sponsors. If you develop, run, or fund trials, we’re building this with you.