--- title: "White Paper: Optimizing Discovery Research CRO Strategies" description: Current trends in outsourcing are relatively uncommon in early stage research and present exclusive challenges for discovery teams. Our paper explores the role of data uncertainty, concept validation and technical consistency in defining discovery stage objectives. 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