About Protocolis
The problem
Every year in France, thousands of clinical research projects take shape in hospital departments. A physician has an intuition, a hypothesis, the desire to advance knowledge about their field. But between that idea and the first structured document — the synopsis — the road is long.
Too long.
On average, writing a clinical research synopsis takes 3 months through the traditional route: back-and-forth between the investigator and the clinical research office, weeks of manual literature review, methodological sections the clinician doesn't master. The result: projects that stall, researchers who give up, and studies that never come to fruition.
The mission
Protocolis was born from this observation, in the corridors of a hospital in Lille.
The founder of Protocolis is a promotion coordinator within a Clinical Research and Innovation Department (DRCI) at a hospital in Lille. Every day, she supports investigators in building their research projects — from residents writing their first thesis protocol to hospital practitioners launching multicentre trials, as well as midwives, physiotherapists and occupational therapists conducting paramedical research.
« Investigators arrive with an idea, sometimes a very vague one. My job is to help them structure it. But we spend weeks doing what could be done in a few hours, if only we had the right tools. »
Specialised in epidemiology and public health, she combines an intimate knowledge of the hospital environment with solid regulatory expertise (ICH-GCP, ANSM, CPP, CNIL). It is this dual perspective — scientific rigour and the day-to-day reality of a clinical research office — that shaped Protocolis.
The tool
Protocolis is an AI ally that guides researchers from idea to structured synopsis. Not a form to fill in, but a conversation: your ally asks the right questions, searches the literature on PubMed and ClinicalTrials.gov, deduces the appropriate methodology, and generates a document ready to share with the clinical research office.
The investigator stays in control of every decision. The tool speeds up and structures the work — it replaces neither the methodologist, nor the biostatistician, nor the institutional validation processes.
Who is it for?
- Hospital investigators — residents, clinic heads, senior consultants — who want to structure their project quickly
- Allied health professionals — midwives, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses — who conduct clinical research
- Students — PhD and Master's students — writing their first synopsis
- Clinical research teams who support researchers and want to receive better-prepared submissions
It's free during the beta