Interactive game challenges you to cut an HPV vaccine phase 3 trial from 2 years to 1
JMateosGarcia · x · 2026-09-25
Salonium launched an interactive "clinical trial bottlenecks" game tied to the debate over whether AI can cure all diseases within 10 years. Based on the real FUTURE II phase 3 Gardasil HPV trial (12,000 participants, 8% monthly recruitment, 98% true efficacy, 2-year modeled duration), players tweak levers like sample size and recruitment to try to compress the timeline to one year — building intuition for how close each bottleneck is to its limit and how bottlenecks shift. Context: drugs average 8–10 years from human testing to approval, and trials are often called the bottleneck of medical progress.
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