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The Health PulseFaster, Smarter, Outcomes-Focused Clinical TrialsClinical trials are more complex than ever, but new models are emerging to improve how they’re designed and delivered. On this episode of The Health Pulse, host Alex Maiersperger sits down with Meri Beckwith, co-founder and co-CEO of Lindus Health, a company rethinking the traditional contract research organization model with a more outcome-focused approach to clinical research.Drawing on his experience as both a trial participant and industry innovator, Beckwith shares how aligning incentives, improving patient and physician experiences and using AI can accelerate studies and improve results. He introduces the concept of an “accountable research orga...
2026-07-1435 min
Anglofuturism044. Meri Beckwith: Fully automated luxury NHSIn part one, we explored why drug development costs are exploding and how better software could fix it. In part two, we get practical: what’s actually stopping Britain from becoming a biotech superpower, and what would it take to get there?Meri pulls no punches. The single hardest thing about building Lindus Health in the UK? Three-month notice periods. Want to staff up for new trials? Wait three months for people to work out their notice—during which they’re not exactly doing their best work. “It’s incredibly ineffective. It acts as a transfer from the most p...
2026-02-1945 min
Anglofuturism042. Meri Beckwith: Eroom's law is killing drug developmentThe pharmaceutical industry has a dirty secret: it takes $2 billion and a decade to approve the average drug, and these numbers are getting exponentially worse. While computing power doubles every few years, drug development costs double every decade—a phenomenon called Eroom’s Law (Moore’s Law backwards).Lindus Health was founded to fix this crisis. Named after James Lind, the Royal Navy surgeon who ran the first randomized controlled trial in 1747 (discovering that citrus prevents scurvy and accidentally creating the Sicilian Mafia in the process), the London-based company is slashing clinical trial costs and timelines through better...
2026-02-1343 min
Med Tech GurusRethinking the CRO: Faster, Smarter, More Human TrialsWhat if the future of clinical trials wasn't just faster—but dramatically more human-centered, efficient, and aligned with real-world outcomes? In this episode of Med Tech Gurus, Meri Beckwith, co-founder of Lindus Health, shares how a broken experience during a COVID trial sparked a revolution in trial design. Lindus is reimagining the traditional CRO with fixed-cost models, milestone-based payments, and tech-driven platforms that cut enrollment timelines by 74%. Meri reveals how their innovative culture, AI-enhanced monitoring, and focus on patient experience is building a new infrastructure for smarter trials. If you're a medtech founder tired of bloated protocols, po...
2025-09-2435 min
Life Sciences TodayAnti-CRO with Lindus HealthWe’re excited to be back for another episode of the Life Sciences Today Podcast by Healthcare IT Today. My guest today is Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health. Lindus Health, founded by Meri Beckwith in 2021, aims to fix broken clinical trial processes. Inspired by Beckwith’s VC and trial participant experiences, it offers fixed-cost, milestone-based contracts. Its tech platform, Citrus, integrates EDC, CTMS, and CDISC-compliant storage. Focused on psychiatry and other areas, Lindus prioritizes speed, data quality, and cultural integrity as it scales across the US and UK.
Check out the main topics of discussion for this...
2025-07-2500 min
Note to File: A Clinical Research PodcastCROs are Broken: Fixing Clinical Trials from the Inside Out with Meri Beckwith - Lindus HealthIn this episode, Meri Beckwith from Lindus Health discusses his journey from venture capital to clinical research, sharing insights on the inefficiencies of traditional CROs. He explains how Lindus is taking a different approach by aligning incentives, focusing on patient experience, and developing innovative trial models. The conversation explores the challenges in clinical trials, from data collection to site management, offering a fresh perspective on how the industry might evolve.
2025-05-0850 min
Riding Unicorns: Venture Capital | Entrepreneurship | TechnologyMeri Beckwith, Co-Founder @ Lindus HealthMeri Beckwith is a Co-Founder at Lindus Health. Their mission is to accelerate clinical trials, so patients can benefit from new treatments sooner. They are an anti-CRO running radically faster, more reliable clinical trials for life science pioneers. They do this thanks to a commercial model that aligns incentives (fixed-priced quotes per study, with milestone-based payments), marrying a world-class clinical operations team with their unique software platform, and access to 30 million Electronic Health Records. They handle the end-to-end execution of clinical studies, including design, patient recruitment, clinical data capture, monitoring, and project management. Meri joins James Pringle...
2024-04-0344 min
The Scrubbed In Show by PeerrE156: The Future of Clinical Trials, $18m Series A and Breaking Bottlenecks - Meri Beckwith (Co-founder Lindus Health)In this week’s episode, Meri shares his journey from the world of investing to breaking the bottlenecks in clinical trials as he builds the anti-CRO for life science pioneers.
We discussed:
🔄 Transitioning from venture capital into healthtech
💼 Investor vs Founder Traits, Personality and Mindset
🌱 The origin story of Lindus Health
🏗️ The first few days/weeks of building Lindus Health
🚧 Barriers to entering the pharma industry as a new startup
🔒 Securing the first clinical trial with Habitual
🍾 The bottle necks of clinical trials
🔍 The process of recruiting patients for clinical trials
❌ Where c...
2024-03-2643 min
pharmaphorum PodcastThe unique clinical trial challenges faced by digital therapeuticsOn today’s podcast, host Jonah Comstock is joined by Meri Beckwith, cofounder of Lindus Health, a next-gen CRO that includes digital therapeutics among its specialties. They talk a little bit about often unseen difficulties of validating a digital therapeutic through a clinical trial.
2024-03-2127 min
Big Picture Medicine#126 Drug Discovery is Becoming More $$$ — Here's Why, And The Startup Fixing It (Lindus Health)Drug discovery is becoming more expensive and producing less results than ever before (Eroom's Law)—why?
One of the ballooning costs are clinical trials. Pharma/biotech often outsource their trials to CROs (contract research organisations).
But many CROs are incentivised to make trials as bloated and inefficient as possible. That means more money and less results.
Meri Beckwith is building the anti-CRO: Lindus Health—to solve this problem.
0:00 Intro
1:39 The big problem in drug discovery
4:10 Why do CROs exist?
7:24 The incentive problem in drug discovery/CROs
10:57 Phar...
2023-10-3135 min
Health Tech SpotlightMeri Beckwith - Co-Founder at Lindus HealthIn episode sixty-seven, we speak with Meri Beckwith the Co-Founder at Lindus Health about full-service clinical trial delivery, how they use software to help run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials, and his love of surfing!
2023-09-1713 min
DTx Podcast with Eugene BorukhovichTransforming Clinical Trials: Accelerating the Path to Market for Digital HealthIn this episode, we hear from Meri Beckwith, Co-founder of Lindus Health. In their own words, Lindus delivers end to end clinical trials for health tech and biotech pioneers.Topics include:
The background and inception story of Lindus Health
Lindus Health's place in the value chain
Achieving key funding milestones in a difficult market enviroment
The unique aspects of clinical trials for DTx
Pharmaceutical clients in the DTx market
The future for clinical trials and digitization
Guest Links and Resources:
Connect with Meri Beckwith on LinkedIn
Visit Lindus Health
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2023-09-1230 min
Shot of Digital Health TherapyShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy - Meri Beckwith - Lindus HealthOn this Wednesday's #TheShot of #DigitalHealth Therapy Jim Joyce and I talked "plants, cells and spiders" with the awesome guest Meri Beckwith, Co-Founder of Lindus Health:🪴 🕷 Academia Currency🪴 🕷 How VC's really work 😂 🪴 🕷 EROOM law in Pharma🪴 🕷 CRO Business model🪴 🕷 What matters in #clinicaltrials 🪴 🕷 oh and.... team & talent! Fun mentions as always: Lina Wenner Brent Hoberman firstminute capital Alex Zhavoronkov Christian Angermayer Paul Wicks Michael Pace Jonah Comstock
2022-08-1035 min