Founder
Andrew Michael, MD
Founder & CEO, MyTrial
San Diego, California
The reason MyTrial exists is that the eligibility-to-enrollment pipeline — where 80% of trials fail — sits at the intersection of three skill sets that almost never appear in one person: medical training to read the protocol, ten years on the road as a CRA to know how the work actually flows, and modern AI engineering depth to ship what those two together demand. I have all three. So the right move is to build it.
Background.
Medical
- MD — clinical training in oncology and primary care
- Active California medical license
- Continuing medical education in informatics and clinical research methodology
Clinical research
- 10 years as a clinical research associate
- 200+ site monitoring visits across oncology, cardiology, and neurology trials
- ICH-GCP and 21 CFR Part 11 working knowledge from the inside
Technical
- Production systems with Next.js 16, AI SDK 6, Postgres, pgvector
- Eligibility-parsing pipeline with concept normalization across SNOMED, RxNorm, LOINC, MeSH
- Multi-agent architectures with human-in-the-loop primitives
The founding insight.
“Most clinical research software is built by software people who learned the domain second-hand. The friction lives in the gap between what the protocol says and what the workflow actually looks like at 9:30 on a Tuesday morning, with a coordinator juggling four trials and a patient on the phone. You can't design for that gap if you haven't lived in it.”
What we're building is the layer that sits between protocol and workflow — eligibility parsing, site responsiveness, AI-pre-screened candidates, persistent chat. The patient gets clarity. The site gets ten minutes back per screening. The sponsor gets the enrollment timeline they planned.
None of that exists today. So we are building it.
Selected writing.
On the eligibility-parsing problem in modern oncology trials
Working paper · 2026
Why AI-native is non-negotiable for clinical research infrastructure
FreeGCP.com · 2026
What ten years on the road as a CRA taught me about why trials fail
FreeGCP.com · 2025
Get in touch.
For partnership, advisor, or co-founder conversations, email andrew@mytrial.com. For everything else, the waitlist is the right way in.