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Welcome to the Clinical Content & Reuse Initiative Solutions Page
The Clinical Content & Reuse (CC&R) Initiative has enhanced clinical trial processes by providing harmonized structure and proposed model content within clinical trial documents that can be reused throughout the project lifecycle to enable digitization and traceability through automation.
What’s New: 2026
CPT Re-aligned to ICH M11 Template
To maximize value for stakeholders who have adopted the CPT over the past 12 years, TransCelerate member company SMEs have aligned the Common Protocol Template (CPT) Basic Word edition with the finalized ICH M11 Protocol Template and Technical Specifications now available publicly, as well as to the Unified Study Definitions Model (USDM) developed by CDISC and the DDF Initiative. Use of this CPT V11 as a foundation for protocol development will align with key elements of the new ICH M11 standard while still utilizing the additional granularity and detail stakeholders have found valuable in the CPT for the past 12 years.
The template is now available, along with the supporting overview and reference materials outlined below:
Active Participant Type and Therapeutic Area Libraries
CPT/ICH M11 Alignment Overview
Cumulative Summary of Content Changes
CTS Implementation Support Resource (ISR)
Clinical Template Suite Style Guide
Note: Since V11 CPT updates were only made to the Basic Word edition, Release 10 (2024) versions of all templates are still available and can be accessed by anyone wishing to leverage the content reuse capabilities established across CTS templates in earlier versions.
CTS eTemplates: At this time, no further development or updates to the eTemplates functionality are planned post Rleease 10 (2024). Because of this, TransCelerate has made the source code for the eTemplate suite available to the public pursuant to an open source license agreement. After clicking to accept the license, individuals can download the code base and supporting materials to aid in their implementation of the CTS eTemplates. Navigate to the eTemplates Tab below to download the eTemplates Source Code file.
For information relating to ongoing protocol digitization efforts see TransCelerate’s Digital Data Flow initiative here.
What is Clinical Content & Reuse

Innovation & Collaboration
The Clinical Content & Reuse initiative, in addition to maintaining the CTS, was involved with numerous innovative exploratory activities & collaborations aimed at enhancing the clinical research ecosystem. Click on the tabs below to learn more & see related tools and resources.
Following a three-year initiative, the IMI sponsored EU-PEARL team released master protocol, ISA, and statistical analysis plan templates based on TransCelerate’s Clinical Template Suite (CPT & SAP templates) as well as other supporting assets. You can find these tools by following this link:
Building upon this collaboration, the CC&R team incorporated key recommendations related to master protocol design into the 2024 CPT, and also created a guidance document for design considerations for complex studies.
Learn more about the unique and impactful collaboration between TransCelerate’s Clinical Content & Reuse (CC&R) initiative and the Innovative Medicine Institute’s (IMI) EU-PEARL initiative.
In the Fall of 2020, TransCelerate’s Clinical Content & Reuse Initiative released:
Since that time, both ACRO and TransCelerate member companies have faced unprecedented interruptions to clinical trials caused by an increasingly diverse set of circumstances. ACRO and TransCelerate took their lessons learned and in 2022 published proposals to address these challenges in:
From 2021 to 2023, the CC&R team explored avenues towards improving Schedule of Activities design with an eye towards digitization.
In 2021, the team conducted a proof-of-concept exercise & landscape analysis to determine the general feasibility of establishing a procedures library to support protocol design and digitization. The results of that exercise, aimed at supporting the evolution towards a digitized protocol, have been summarized in a white paper:
In 2022-3, the team explored the possibility of SoA redesign with various stakeholders in mind. A perspective on the future state of the Schedule of Activities and its potential, focusing on redesign toward a “Stakeholder View Approach” to address multiple end user needs, can be found here:






