Chennai: Zifo, a global leader in AI and data-driven enterprise informatics for science-driven organizations, has been named runner-up in the CDISC 2025 AI Innovation Challenge.
The recognition highlights Zifo’s innovative solutions in two critical areas of clinical research: developing a unified data model for study design and creating a comprehensive system for clinical data lineage tracking.
CDISC 2025 AI Innovation Challenge Honors Zifo’s AI Blueprints
The CDISC 2025 AI Innovation Challenge, organized by the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC), acknowledges innovative applications that leverage AI and CDISC standards to solve pressing challenges in clinical research.
Zifo’s solutions streamline study design, improve data transparency, and ensure end-to-end traceability – vital components in accelerating drug development and regulatory compliance.
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Deepak Ananthan, Head of Clinical Services and AI Scaling at Zifo, expressed gratitude for the recognition. “We are honored to be recognized by CDISC for our contributions to the AI Innovation Challenge. This achievement reflects our team’s scientific expertise and AI-driven solutions that address real-world challenges in clinical research,” he said.
CDISC 2025 AI Innovation Challenge: Judges Praise Zifo’s Innovations in Clinical Research
In Use Case 1 (USDM), Zifo impressed the judges with its USDM-driven application integrating CDISC standards and Biomedical Concepts. The solution’s intuitive workflows, validation features, and traceability tools were highlighted as having strong potential to deliver significant value to the industry.
For Use Case 3 (Semantic Traceability), Zifo’s AI-powered solution unified multiple elements – from study protocols and CRFs to SDTM, ADaM, TLFs, Biomedical Concepts, and USDM – into an interactive lineage explorer.
Judges praised the ambitious scope and innovative use of standards, recognizing it as a transformative step for digital adoption in clinical research.
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Zifo to Present at CDISC U.S. Interchange 2025
In its announcement, CDISC commended Zifo for submitting solutions across all three use cases and acknowledged the company’s runner-up recognition in both Use Case 1 and Use Case 3.
As part of the recognition, Zifo has been invited to present its AI solutions at the CDISC U.S. Interchange in Nashville on Monday, October 13, 2025, providing a global platform to showcase its innovative contributions.
CDISC 2025 AI Innovation Challenge Winners
- Protocol Library – Building USDM-centric repositories from existing protocols
- Winner: Faro – AI-powered protocol digitization solution transforming static documents into reusable, structured data
- Runner-up: Zifo – Converts protocols into machine-readable assets for study design standardization and reuse
- BC Acceleration – Driving transformation through rapid development of Biomedical Concepts
- Winner: Saama – AI-driven Smart BC Suite to extract, standardize, and link Biomedical Concepts
- Runner-up: Lindus Health – BC Registry Framework leveraging registries and ontologies to automate matching
- Automated Traceability – Establishing semantic traceability from analysis back to study design
- Winner: Merck – Open-source traceability engine linking protocols, CRFs, SDTM, ADaM, and TLFs into one lineage graph
- Runner-up: Zifo – End-to-end traceability across trial artifacts with AI-driven metadata extraction
