Virtual Advisory Board Platform
Scientific Engagement, Reimagined for the Digital Age
MphaR's proprietary platform gives Medical Affairs teams a secure, compliant, and highly interactive environment for virtual advisory activities — combining synchronous and asynchronous engagement in one seamless experience.

Trusted by pharma and biotech Medical Affairs teams globally — designed specifically for the unique compliance, scientific rigour, and logistical demands of advisory board management.

24/7

Continuous expert engagement

3

Advisory board formats supported

8+

Integrated engagement tools

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Global, time-zone independent access

ADVISORY BOARD EVOLUTION
From In-Person to Fully Virtual — and Everything In Between
The landscape of scientific engagement has evolved significantly. What began as room-based in-person boards has expanded into a spectrum of formats. MphaR supports every point on that spectrum — and uniquely unifiesthem into a single hybrid model that maximises the value of each expert interaction,regardless of geography, time zone, or schedule.

Face-to-face

Single day

Travel required

Live In-Person Advisory Board

The traditional format: experts, moderators, and Medical Affairs teams gather in one location for structured face-to-face dialogue. High engagement energy, but constrained by travel, geography, and scheduling availability.

Real time

No travel

Global access

Live Virtual Advisory Board

Real-time video meetings that replicate the in-person dynamic — enabling direct discussion, debate, and interactive exchange between advisors and moderators from anywhere in the world, without the need for travel.

Days or weeks

Any time zone

Reflective input

Asynchronous Virtual Advisory Board (AVAB)

Structured online discussions that run continuously over several days or weeks — allowing advisors to contribute at their own pace, when they can think most deeply, from any time zone and on their own schedule.

MphaR Hybrid Advantage
MphaR's Virtual Advisory Board Platform is uniquely designed to combine synchronous and asynchronous components in a single, seamless environment. This blended model supports more meaningful, reflective contributions, eliminates logistical barriers, and increases overall engagement — delivering a higher volume and quality of expert insights than any single format can achieve alone.
ENGAGEMENT FORMATS
Choose Your Format, Or Combine Them All
Every Medical Affairs team has different scientific objectives, advisory timelines, and expert audiences. MphaR's platform flexes to your needs — delivering the right format, or the right combination of formats, for every scientific engagement programme you run.

SYNCHRONOUS

Live Virtual Advisory Boards

Real-time meetings that allow direct discussion, debate, and interactive exchange between advisors and moderators — bringing the energy and immediacy of an in-person event to a fully virtual environment, accessible from anywhere in the world.

  • Live video conferencing integrated directly into the platform

  • Real-time polling, Q&A, and collaborative workshops

  • Breakout sessions for focused small-group expert discussions

  • Moderated agendas with time-managed session structure

  • Immediate feedback capture and live sentiment tracking

Best for: rapid consensus-building, interactive debate, and time-sensitive advisory needs where immediate expert exchange is critical.

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ASYNCHRONOUS

Asynchronous Virtual Advisory Boards (AVAB)

Structured online discussions that run continuously over several days or weeks — allowing advisors to contribute thoughtfully, at their own pace and in their own time zone, without the constraints of a fixed schedule or single-day engagement window.

  • Topic-based discussion threads that evolve and deepen over time

  • Document annotation and collaborative review tools throughout

  • Polling and surveys deployable at any point in the engagement

  • Moderated facilitation to ensure discussion quality and depth

  • Continuous insight capture across extended participation windows

Best for: deep reflection, global expert involvement, and generating a high volume of nuanced scientific insights over time.

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BEST OF BOTH

Hybrid / Mixed Approach

MphaR's platform uniquely combines synchronous and asynchronous components within a single, unified environment — supporting more meaningful contributions, higher engagement levels, and richer scientific output than any single format can deliver on its own.

  • Pre-meeting async preparation to maximise live session value

  • Live video sessions embedded within an ongoing async framework

  • Post-meeting async follow-up to deepen and extend insights further

  • Single platform experience for all advisors across all format types

  • Comprehensive reporting and insight synthesis across all touchpoints

Best for: maximising both the depth and breadth of expert insights across a full, multi-stage engagement cycle.

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24/7 EXPERT ENGAGEMENT
Advisors Participate Anytime, Anywhere — On Their Own Terms
Traditional advisory boards are constrained by fixed schedules: a single day, a single time zone, a single window for expert input. MphaR eliminates these constraints entirely. Advisors and moderators are engaged in structured online discussions around the clock — continuously, over days or weeks — producing a richness and depth of insight that no single-event format can match.
  • Structured discussions available 24/7
Advisors log in when it suits them — morning, evening, or weekend — contributing when their thinking is sharpest and their schedule allows.

  • Time-zone independence for true global involvement
No more excluding key opinion leaders due to geography. MphaR brings together global expertise without scheduling compromise or early-morning calls.

  • Continuous participation across extended time periods
Engagement runs over days or weeks, allowing ideas to evolve, deepen, and be challenged as the scientific discussion develops organically over time.

  • Freedom to reflect deeply before contributing
Unlike live-only formats, advisors can review materials, reflect, consult colleagues, and craft considered responses — consistently producing significantly higher-quality scientific insights.

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PLATFORM FEATURES
Everything You Need in One Platform
A comprehensive, purpose-built suite of tools designed specifically for scientific engagement and Medical Affairs advisory activities — combining every capability you need into a single, secure, and compliant environment without compromise.

Unlike generic video-conferencing or collaboration tools adapted for advisory boards, MphaR’s platform is built from the ground up for Medical Affairs. Every feature — from discussion structuring and document annotation to live facilitation — is designed with the compliance requirements, scientific rigour, and moderation needs of pharmaceutical advisory activities in mind. The result is a platform that requires no workarounds, no patching together of separate tools, and no compromise on security, compliance, or scientific quality. One environment. Everything you need.

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Discussion Forums

Structured, topic-based dialogue that organises expert insights and keeps conversations focused, searchable, and productive across the full engagement window — whether it runs for hours or weeks.

Supports threaded replies, moderator pinning, and topic tagging for easy downstream synthesis.

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Breakout Sessions

Small-group expert discussions that allow targeted deep dives into specific topics within the broader advisory agenda — enabling richer, more specialised scientific dialogue without losing plenary cohesion.

Configurable group sizes and topics allow outputs to feed directly back into the main advisory session.

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Live Video Calls

Integrated directly into the platform — no separate tools or external links required. Run real-time, face-to-face advisory sessions without ever leaving the MphaR environment, while maintaining full compliance control.

HD video with recording options, screen sharing, and live annotation support are built in.

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Interactive Workshops

Collaborative analysis and problem-solving sessions designed for meaningful scientific co-creation — moving beyond passive presentations to structured, active expert participation and real-time output generation.

Whiteboard tools, shared canvases, and structured facilitation templates are available throughout.

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Polling & Surveys

Quantify expert opinions, gather structured scientific feedback, and generate evidence-driven insights with built-in polling and survey tools that can be deployed at any stage of the advisory engagement.

Real-time results displays, anonymous or attributed responses, and fully exportable data outputs are all supported.

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Document Annotation & Co-Creation

Review manuscripts, slides, clinical data, and publications collaboratively with real-time annotation, commenting, and co-creation tools that capture expert input directly on the source material where it matters most.

Version control, comment resolution, and a full audit trail are included as standard.

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Meeting Board Functionality

Real-time idea sharing, prioritisation, and clustering — enabling structured facilitation of expert input and live alignment on key scientific questions, strategic priorities, or unmet medical needs.

Drag-and-drop clustering, voting mechanics, and exportable summary outputs are for downstream use.

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Secure & Compliant Infrastructure

Built specifically for Medical Affairs — ensuring a secure, compliant environment for all scientific advisory activities, with robust access controls, role-based permissions, and full audit logging throughout every engagement.

Designed to support pharma compliance requirements, including data privacy, access management, and full activity tracking.

24/7
Reflection & More Thoughtful Contributions
No scheduling conflicts. No time-zone barriers. No single-day constraints. Experts contribute at their most thoughtful moments — from wherever they are in the world, whenever it works best for them.
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Global Reach

Experts from any country, any time zone contribute equally and without compromise.

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Deeper Insights

Reflective asynchronous input consistently produces more nuanced scientific output.

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Higher Volume

Extended engagement windows generate significantly more insights than in-person-only boards.

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Compliant & Secure

Fully audited engagement in a purpose-built Medical Affairs environment

“Advisors and moderators are engaged in structured online discussions 24/7, anytime and anywhere — continuously over a prolonged period, designed to deliver more meaningful and in-depth insights from participants.” — MphaR Platform Principles
WHY VIRTUAL ENGAGEMENT WORKS
Designed for Deeper, More Meaningful Insights
Virtual engagement through MphaR is not a compromise on the quality of in-person advisory boards — it is a significant and measurable enhancement. The platform is engineered to extract greater value, depth, and volume from every advisor interaction, consistently outperforming traditional formats on the dimensions that matter most.
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Reflection & More Depth-driven Contributions

When advisors are not pressured to respond in real time, they think more carefully and contribute more meaningfully. MphaR’s asynchronous framework gives experts the time and space to review materials, consider their positions, and craft thoughtful responses — consistently producing richer scientific dialogue than time-pressured live formats allow.

Structured moderation prompts and topic scaffolding further enhance the depth and scientific relevance of each contribution.

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Broader Participation from Global Experts

Travel constraints, scheduling conflicts, and time-zone differences systematically exclude some of the world’s leading experts from participating in traditional advisory boards. MphaR removes these barriers entirely — enabling genuine global engagement and diverse scientific perspectives without logistical compromise, scheduling contortions, or significant travel cost.

Experts with limited travel availability — including senior clinicians, academics, and patient advocates — become fully accessible participants.

3x

More expert insights generated compared to traditional single-dayadvisory boards

100%

Removal of travel barriers — global experts participate fully andequally

24/7

Continuous engagement window for maximum participation, depth,and scientific quality

WHO IT'S FOR
Built for Medical Affairs Scientific Engagement Teams
MphaR’s Virtual Advisory Board Platform is designed specifically for the needs of pharmaceutical and biotech organisations running advisory board and scientific engagement programmes — across therapeutic areas, geographies, and a wide range of advisory objectives.
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Medical Affairs Teams

Plan, manage, and execute virtual advisory boards with full compliance confidence, structured facilitation tools, and comprehensive insight capture — all within a single purpose-built platform that requires no external workarounds or additional tools.

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Scientific Engagement Leads

Drive deeper scientific dialogue with KOLs and therapeutic area experts through a platform purpose-built for structured, moderated scientific discussion — across live, asynchronous, and hybrid engagement formats in one unified environment.

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Global & Regional Teams

Engage expert advisors across geographies and time zones without the logistical and cost constraints of travel-dependent in-person formats — while fully maintaining the quality, structure, and compliance of a formal advisory board engagement.

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Medical Communication& Strategy

Generate high-quality, structured expert input to inform medical communications strategies, publication planning, clinical positioning, and evidence-gap identification — pulling directly and traceably from advisory board outputs captured on the platform.

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Purpose-built for Medical Affairs · Secure & Compliant · Live, Asynchronous &Hybrid Formats · Global Expert Reach