With the closing of the acquisition of QSI (Quantum Solutions India), Parexel is looking to help serve its clients further in the pharmacovigilance space.
CROs (contract research organizations) continue to collaborate with sponsors on more clinical trials in the US, though the largest companies, such as Quintiles, Parexel and PPD, are working on a much larger share of the research as collaborators than...
Drug, vaccine and medical device developers should publish all trial results according to the WHO, which says anything less skews R&D priorities and public healthcare investment.
Industry group TransCelerate BioPharma has established two new global initiatives around placebo and standard of care data sharing, and electronic labels for clinical trials – both of which aim to accelerate and enhance trials.
A new Frost & Sullivan report predicts the Latin American clinical research market for CROs (contract research organizations) will grow at a pace of 7.1% through 2019, with larger CROs taking advantage of the market the most.
Wilmington, North Carolina-based CRO (contract research organization) PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development) and Tokyo-based Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) have closed an agreement to form a joint venture to provide clinical development...
The reputation of Indian clinical trials has been damaged by the “unjustified” suspension of medicines tested by GVK Biosciences, Pharmexcil says as it attacks the evidence submitted by French regulators.
A number of different countries offer tax incentives that generally seek to attract pharma companies conducting research, and often can help CROs (contract research organizations) as well, an Ernst & Young breakdown of R&D tax incentives found.
LabCorp, as well as its recent acquisition Covance, along with CRO (contract research organization) peers inVentiv and Evotec have all landed small to medium-sized pharmaceutical deals in the past week.
Piramal has agreed to sell its clinical research business based in Hyderabad, India to Indoco Remedies which will add bio-equivalence and bio-analytical services to its offerings.
CROs (contract research organizations) received slightly better overall ratings from investigator sites compared to two years ago, though there are still gaps between how sites view sponsors and CROs, according to the recently unveiled CenterWatch Global...
The Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS), which represents the interests of clinical research sites, has announced a two-year partnership with North Carolina-based CRO PRA Health Sciences, while the group’s work with INC Research has resulted in...
As CROs (contract research organizations) and sponsors look to shave off time from their clinical trial start-up phase, which is where delays occur most frequently, companies may want to look away from local IRBs (institutional review boards), an expert...
With an eye on central labs industry leader LabCorp, Quintiles and Quest Diagnostics are combining their clinical trials lab operations to provide clients with the world’s second-largest option.
In another sign that early phase research demand is picking up, North Carolina-based CRO PRA Health Sciences (PRA) is increasing its Phase I clinical footprint in the US and Russia.
Global CRO Parexel has signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-owned, Chandigarh, India-based Quantum Solutions India, a provider of specialized pharmacovigilance services.
As biotech and mid-sized pharma companies continue to drive growth for CROs (contract research organizations), the expected ramping up of prices due to increased competition has yet to fully materialize, experts say.
Parexel’s audits of Ranbaxy’s deficient manufacturing operations in India were of specific interest to the FDA, though the CRO did not turn over the reports because of concerns that their release might damage the confidentiality of the company’s audit...
Service provider BioClinica will open a Research Triangle Park (RTP) office in North Carolina in response to a rapidly expanding customer base of study sponsors and CROs (contract research organizations) with which it has strategic partnerships.
With a small pipeline of clinical candidates, as well as R&D partnerships with top Big Pharma companies paying for those partnerships, Evotec could be in a position to re-define what it means to be an outsourcing partner.
Dublin-based CRO Icon is sponsoring a series of research projects at Carnegie Mellon University as part of a long-term partnership to find new ways to improve the comprehension and retention of informed consent documents by clinical trial participants.
eSource solution provider Clinical Ink is merging with CentrosHealth, a provider of mobile apps for clinical trial patient engagement and electronic patient reported outcomes (ePRO).
The strategic partnership comes with Sanofi providing €250m to Evotec, including €40m upfront, as part of efforts to discover new drug candidates, including in the area of oncology, and specifically at Sanofi’s R&D site in Toulouse, France.
The Korean project, which began in April 2014, required the Sweden-based CDMO (contract development and manufacturing organization) Recipharm to produce a data matrix code, including serial number, to comply with the regulations that are expected to be...
The average budgeted merit salary increase for 2015 topped out at 4.14%, which is up slightly from 2014’s average of 3.94% and significantly higher than 2014’s actual increase of 3.7%, according to a recent survey of 11 top global CROs (contract research...
Evotec and Second Genome have agreed to partner in small molecule-based discovery and development activities for the treatment of microbiome-mediated diseases.
Biogen Idec, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Lilly and Pfizer have all committed to investing in the $100m venture capital fund, alongside Alzheimer’s Research UK and the UK government.
Despite legal reporting requirements, the vast majority of results from clinical trials are not reported on ClinicalTrials.gov within a year of their ending, according to a new study from the New England Journal of Medicine.
The trade organization Society for Clinical Research Sites (SCRS) has broadened its relationship with PPD subsidiary Acurian to initiate a Site Advocacy Group (SAG) focused on global patient recruitment.
With operations across 19 European countries as well as the US, contract Research Organization KCR recently relocated its head office from Warsaw, Poland, to Berlin, Germany to be closer to clients.
The European CRO (contract research organization) Federation is calling on the EMA (European Medicines Agency) to not allow for the “unrestricted publication of inspection reports” as only “findings that are of relevance to the public should be made publicly...
With operations in more than 100 countries, the world’s largest CRO Quintiles is now looking to extend its global reach even farther, CEO Tom Pike told investors at the Barclays Global Healthcare Conference on Tuesday.
The Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) held the inaugural meeting of the previously announced CRO Forum, which was established in October to increase interactions between the CRO industry and industry group TransCelerate BioPharma.
The draft guidance comes in the form of a Q&A and offers clinical investigators, IRBs and others a look into how electronic informed consent (eIC) should be done properly.
CRO Icon has launched a new medical device and diagnostics research group following the combination of recently acquired Aptiv Solutions’ expertise with its own experts.
Aggressive investment in new manufacturing capacity and new initiatives in genomics and cell therapy in 2015 is forcing CRO Wuxi to lower its expectations for 2015, and the lowered projections also seemed to have caused the company’s stock to fall by...
CRO (Contract Research Organization) Rho collaborated with the NIH (National Institutes of Health) on its most recent study that found a major reduction of peanut allergies in children who began early, continuous consumption of peanuts.
Moscow-based Cromos Pharma, an international full-service CRO, has launched Cardiorus, a cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery site research organization (SRO), with its clinical base being at the Bakoulev Center of Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow.
As pipelines dwindle in a post-blockbuster world, pharma and biotech R&D operations are looking for new ways to take on non-traditional product development strategies that allow for less internal resources and increased efficiency while reducing costs,...
The German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) says the EMA’s proposal to establish a publicly accessible database of clinical trial data does not do enough to make the data transparent.
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) reintroduced a bill that would permanently allow CROs (contract research organizations) to capture a share of the R&D tax credit.
Fluctuations in regulations over the past few years have reduced the number of clinical trials run on the subcontinent, but now governing bodies are looking at new ways to attract trials and further control the industry.
The use of substandard and falsified drugs in clinical trials has been neglected and new information on product quality should be included in the GCP (good clinical practice) guidelines from the WHO and ICH, academics contend in the British Medical Journal.
Dublin-based CRO Icon saw its quarterly net revenue, backlog and income rise over the same quarter last year, all of which helped to boost its stock by about 10% on Wednesday.
