Two patients in rural India gained access to clinical trials they might never have found, thanks in part to seven Southlake Carroll students who spent a week working alongside physicians in Gujarat.

The students traveled May 24–30 to Modi Neuro Clinic, IndoVasc and several rural clinics as part of a healthcare outreach trip organized through Claidex, a healthcare technology company founded by Carroll Senior High School graduate Sahaj Satani, Southlake Style reported.

Satani, now a student at Cornell University, founded Claidex after repeatedly watching patients miss out on trials they qualified for during his work as a medical assistant and in clinical research.

The company's broader mission is documenting why clinical trials fail, but it also offers a patient-matching tool that lets physicians search for relevant trials by entering a patient's condition and location.

On the company's overview page, Satani described what drove him to start the venture: "Most failed drug programs leave no public record of what went wrong. Researchers repeat the same mistakes. I built Claidex to change that."

During the Gujarat trip, physicians used that matching tool to connect an acute stroke patient and a vascular patient with active thrombectomy trials at hospitals in Ahmedabad.

The Carroll students developed educational materials for clinicians and patients in English, Hindi and Gujarati, and learned how the platform identifies trials a patient may qualify for. Several of the students were connected to a club Satani first started while attending Carroll Senior High.

That effort is returning to Southlake: an upcoming Claidex club at Carroll Senior High School will give students opportunities to study clinical research, examine why trials fail and conduct their own analyses. The school serves about 1,422 students in grades 11–12.

Claidex is also expanding its work in rural communities in Texas and Oklahoma. No launch date for the Carroll club has been announced.