Founded in Chicago in 2003 — before "participant recruitment platform" was a category.
Research & Me was founded in Chicago in 2003 to replace bulletin boards and transit ads with something simpler. We're still small, still independent, and still built around the same idea: the researcher shouldn't have to wait on a budget cycle, a procurement process, or a sales call to get started.
Mission
The progress of science and medicine only happens through the efforts of the people who support it - both researchers and participants alike. Over the past decade, this progress has become stagnant and promising life-changing therapies have gone undeveloped for the people in need of these hopeful treatments.
Using the Research & Me platform, researchers have saved hundreds of recruiting hours and have connected with new and diverse participants who support the progress of science and technology. This is how study recruitment is meant to be: easy, effective, and efficient.
Research & Me is committed to advancing the discoveries of science and medicine by connecting groundbreaking research to qualified participants, and creating a people-focused community of research and progress. We support diversity, equity and inclusion in the clinical trials we assist, helping to ensure our clinical trials and studies are representative of the entire intended patient population, and the results are accurate across the larger demographic. For People. For Progress.
History
Research & Me was started to solve a serious problem in the way research study recruiting was being conducted. Academic, corporate, and pharmaceutical researchers were using bulletin boards, newspapers, and public transportation advertisements in the hopes of reaching people that would qualify for their studies. Not only was this expensive and time-consuming, it was yielding the same slow, painstaking results that it had for decades.
Research & Me brings research recruitment into the 21st century. The founders of Research & Me worked with professors, laboratories, and corporate research departments to develop a streamlined, precise online recruitment platform. Now, more than twenty years later, Research & Me is the product of years of work in the research field, realizing a vision of a fast, efficient, and tailored recruitment method for modern research.
For People. For Progress.
2003
Founded in Chicago
20+
Years in operation