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Understanding PIPL: Implications for Cross-Border Clinical Research Data

Date/Time: May 4, 2026 (9–10 AM EST)
Presenters: Katherine Wang (Ropes and Gray), David Peloquin (Ropes & Gray), Rebecca Li (Vivli)
For organizations involved in global clinical research, China’s PIPL introduces new requirements that directly affect how data is shared, accessed, and governed.

This webinar will provide a practical overview of China’s Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) and its implications for organizations involved in clinical research data sharing. Legal experts from Ropes & Gray will walk through key considerations including cross-border data transfer requirements, risk areas for sponsors and funders, and practical steps organizations can take to navigate compliance. The session will include time for Q&A.

Proposed topics:

  • Overview of PIPL and its relevance to clinical research data
  • Cross-border data transfer requirements and compliance considerations
  • Key risk areas for sponsors, funders, and research organizations
  • Practical implications for data contribution, access, and governance

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Vivli CEO Rebecca Li to speak about Vivli at the Nexus of Open Science symposium

On November 14, Vivli CEO Rebecca Li, PhD, will speak at the Nexus of Open Science, hosted by Johns Hopkins University. This one-day symposium will bring together leaders in neuroscience, clinical research, biomedical engineering, and data science to discuss open science practices, data sharing policies, and more.

Dr. Li will speak to Johns Hopkins faculty and students about how researchers can share and access clinical trial data securely via the Vivli platform. She will highlight the importance of sharing trial data, the value of secondary research, and how to access data via the Vivli platform. Finally, she’ll offer real-life examples of how researchers have leveraged the Vivli platform to advance health research. Learn more.

Vivli Annual Meeting demonstrates data sharing progress

This year’s Vivli Annual Meeting was the most well-attended to date—more than 80 people attended in person and more than 150 people attended online to discuss the impact of data sharing via the Vivli platform. Watch the meeting on YouTube.

Over seven sessions, data contributors and researchers offered their perspectives on how clinical data sharing is advancing progress in cancer diagnosis and treatment, the global response to anti-microbial resistance (AMR), and more.

Sarah Greer and Adrian Peryer created a visual representation of the meeting. They produced 9 illustrated boards that highlighted the insights from each panel. During interactive breaks between panels, participants were also invited to share what conversations had captured their interest by marking the boards with red dots.

A participant indicates their interest in a topic with a red dot
A participant indicates their interest in a topic with a red dot
A participant indicates their interest in a topic with a red dot
A participant indicates their interest in a topic with a red dot
A participant indicates their interest in a topic with a red dot
Two participants observe the boards during the 2025 Vivli Annual Meeting
Three participants observe the boards during the Vivli Annual Meeting
Two participants indicate their interest in topics with red dots
2025 Vivli Annual Meeting attendees annotating boards with red dots.

 

The highlights of the afternoon were two sessions on sharing imaging data. Dan Boisvert (Biogen) discussed how a Vivli partnership with Boehringer Ingelheim, Biogen, Pfizer, and Sanofi is taking on the challenges of anonymizing images, such as MRI and x-ray imaging, linking that data with tabular data, and making it available through the platform.

After that, Tim Kinkead (Preva Group) shared how the Gates Foundation is supporting the development of an AI-enabled low-cost ultrasound device, so that pregnant women in low-resource settings can have improved care for the mother and baby. Sharing ultrasound imaging data has been integral to training the device as part of the development process. This will ensure that nearly anyone can use the device to generate an accurate ultrasound.

Vivli will also be sharing additional footage from a fireside chat with the Vivli AMR Data Challenge panelists and insights from our Vivli Ambassadors. Stay tuned for those updates to learn more about how insights from data sharing are shaping clinical practice and changing global responses to AMR.

Thank you to everyone who joined virtually and in person for the 2025 Vivli Annual Meeting.

2025 Vivli Annual Meeting examines “Data in Action: From Contribution to Impact”

The 2025 Vivli Annual Meeting was held at Loeb House at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, and virtually on Thursday, October 23.

During this meeting, we:

  • Explored how researchers, data contributors, and funders are transforming clinical trial data into real-world health impact.
  • Heard how platforms like Vivli are enabling responsible data sharing and fostering a cycle of data re-use.
  • Learned about success stories of groundbreaking data challenges and how they are shaping new developments in various fields of medicine.

Watch the meeting

Agenda

Welcome and Introductions Rebecca Li, Vivli

Researcher and Data Contributor Panel – From Contribution to Impact in Oncology

Moderator: Murray Stewart, Vivli

Paula Boyles, Pfizer

Jennifer O’Callaghan, Roche

Ben Rotz, Lilly

Jonas Saal, University Hospital Bonn

Youssef Zeidan, Baptist Health South Florida

Data Challenge – Lessons Learned from the Helmsley Type 1 Diabetes Challenge

Moderator: Deniz Dalton, The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust

Robin Gal, Jaeb Center for Health Research

Dana Lewis, OpenAPS

Data Challenge – Lessons Learned from AMR Data Challenges

Moderator: Rebecca Li, Vivli

Harry Akligoh, Northeastern University and Duplex Bioscience

Kasim Allel Henriquez, University of Oxford

Katherine Perez, Pfizer

Amanda Skarlupka, Vivli

Researcher and Data Contributor Panel – From Contribution to Impact in Clinical Trial Applicability to Routine Care

Moderator: Ida Sim, University of California, San Francisco, and Vivli

Jessica Lim, GSK

David McAllister, University of Glasgow

Ben Rotz, Lilly

Cris Woolston, Sanofi
DOJ Countries of Concern – Final Ruling and Practical Implementation for Data Sharing

David Peloquin, Ropes & Gray

Julie Wood, Vivli
Unlocking Imaging Data Sharing – A Collaboration on Imaging Anonymization

 

Dan Boisvert, Biogen

 
Gates Foundation Initiative to Improve Maternal and Infant Health by Sharing Ultrasound Image Data Tim Kinkead, Preva Group
A Way Forward

Rebecca Li, Vivli

Mike Stebbins, Science Advisors and Vivli

 

Vivli CEO Rebecca Li to participate in panel discussion about data sharing under new Department of Justice rule

On September 17, Vivli CEO Rebecca Li, PhD, will speak at the PHUSE Data Transparency Autumn Event. This free, virtual event offers an opportunity for attendees to collaborate on ideas related to data transparency and data sharing. Data managers, biostatisticians, and other professionals interested in data sharing are encouraged to attend.

Dr. Li’s presentation, “Navigating Data Sharing Compliance Under the US DOJ Final Rule on Transfers of Sensitive Personal Data to Countries of Concern – Operational Impacts,” will be from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. ET and will focus on privacy-preserving techniques, data anonymization, and governance frameworks. The panel presentation will respond to recent technological and geopolitical developments, including a rule recently issued by the U.S. Department of Justice. Register to attend this free, virtual event.

Vivli launches Ambassador Program

Vivli is delighted to share that we have launched the Ambassador Program and selected our inaugural cohort of Ambassadors. The program was created to raise awareness of the importance of data sharing and reuse, as well as to promote the research opportunities available through the Vivli data repository.

Selected Ambassadors were eligible for financial support to attend conferences aligned with their research focus. A total of five travel grants of $2,500 were awarded. In addition to presenting their work, Ambassadors will participate in user interviews and testing twice a year to help guide the continued development of the Vivli platform.

Researchers who had successfully completed a project using data from the Vivli repository were invited to apply. Eligible researchers received a direct email invitation to submit a brief proposal outlining how they would promote research using the Vivli platform.

Read the full announcement here.

Vivli Webinar: Unlock the Power of Data Analysis in Vivli: Practical approaches to understanding the data and delving deeper into the CDISC standard

Are you a researcher who has analyzed data on Vivli? Or has your research team already analyzed data in the Vivli platform but is looking for more efficient approaches?

This 3-hour training will provide researchers with a practical approach to understanding the data, provide an overview of CDISC, and how this data standard can help you understand the data. It is aimed at clinical researchers and biostatisticians interested in analyzing data in the Vivli platform. There will be an opportunity for participants to ask questions.

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Topics include:

  • Understand the type of datasets and supporting documents received after approval.
  • Understand CDISC, SDTM and ADaM? How can these standards help make my analysis more efficient?
  • How to conduct reproducible, safe, open and efficient analyses with special considerations for secondary trial analyses within the Vivli environment.

Speakers & Panelists:

  • Jack Shostak, Director of Biostatistical Operations, Duke & CDISC instructor
  • David A McAllister, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Medical Informatics and Honorary Consultant in Public Health Medicine, University of Glasgow
  • Nicole Harmon, COO, CDISC
  • Rebecca Li, CEO, Vivli

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Vivli Webinar: The Power of Sharing Clinical Trial Data: How to Build a Data Sharing Program While Protecting Participant Privacy


Vivli partnered with Real Life Sciences (RLS) to present this webinar on Thursday, February 20 at 10:00 am ET. Presenters explored how RLS and Vivli enable secure data sharing for study sponsors. Participants learned key steps to launching a data-sharing program and discovered why empirical data anonymization techniques are essential for maintaining participant privacy while maximizing research value.



Vivli webinar: Vivli and RDCA-DAP: Data Platform Partnerships to Promote Rare Disease Data Sharing

Julie Wood, Vivli Chief Operating Officer, will join colleagues from Vivli and C-Path for a webinar on Thursday, February 20 at 12:00 pm ET. Julie will present an overview of Vivli’s global data-sharing and analytics platform and how Vivli’s collaboration with RDCA-DAP is advancing data sharing in rare diseases.

In addition to Julie’s presentation, the webinar will also include a panel discussion on platform-to-platform collaborations, strategies for facilitating data sharing, an interactive Q&A session with participants, and more!

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Vivli Webinar: Navigating Clinical Trial Data Sharing Under the New Declaration of Helsinki: Practical Steps for Instituting an Ethical and Effective Program

In this webinar, we will discuss the new Declaration of Helsinki and how institutions can take practical steps to institute an ethical and effective data sharing program.

Join us on Thursday, January 23 at 8am PST/11am EST/4pm GMT, for a discussion with Vivli’s CEO Rebecca Li and COO Julie Wood about the top five questions companies or non-profit foundations should ask when they are considering embarking on a data sharing program.

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Topics include:

  • Why should we share clinical trial data?
  • When should we begin a data sharing program?
  • How do we start to build a data sharing program?
  • How can we manage a data sharing program?
  • What can a partner like Vivli do for us?

Speakers:

  • Rebecca Li, CEO, Vivli
  • Julie Wood, COO, Vivli

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