CRO financial results season begins this week amid reports PPD could be sold, with other service providers and private equity viewed as potential bidders.
CRO Popsi Cube has become an active member of Medicen Paris Region, a network of firms, research centres, universities, hospitals and economic development parks hosting biotechnology companies in the French capital.
CROs and CMOs reluctant to integrate simulation and forecasting into clinical supply strategies are missing out on significant financial benefits according to BioClinica and Paragon Solutions.
Synteract says the use of non-validated data systems in clinical trials is a key driver for the ‘rescue study’ segment of the contract research sector.
US CRO Parexel says the pharmaceutical industry’s desire to access international markets is the key challenge facing regulatory experts in the contract research sector.
Chiltern says that strategic partnering in the contract research sector enables CROs to plan for the longer term and is having a tangible impact on brining drugs to market.
Almac has set up new depots for clinical trial materials in Asia-Pacific as part of a plan to build its presence in a one of the world’s fastest growing markets.
CRO Quintiles chose DIA 2011 to launch its new Infosario clinical trial data and information management system which, it says, will ‘bust’ the information silos that hamper the research process.
US CRO Celerion gained Brazilian National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de Vigilancia Sanitaria ANVISA) approval for its bioanalysis labs in Lincoln, Nebraska and in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
US drug giant Pfizer will maintain a 350-strong research unit at its facility in Sandwich, Kent in the UK after revising its previous plan to find CROs to take over R&D operations.
PRA International says that the adoption of new industry standards is changing how the research sector approaches data and information management and is creating opportunities for the use of innovative technologies.
A new firm joined the contract research sector this week with the launch of Neox Europe, an organisation combining a number of CROs operating across the continent that has global ambitions.
Quotient Amersham Radiochemicals has been rebranded as Quotient Custom Radiolabelling in the latest stage of two year expansion programme by parent Quotient Bioresearch.
Indian contract research organisation (CRO) GVK Biosciences has signed a deal allowing pharmaceutical researchers across the US to access its clinical biomarker database.
The fall in the number of trials conducted in Russia in Q1 is a ‘temporary blip’ says Synergy Research Group general manager Igor Stefanov, who cites recent changes to the approval process, rather than a drop in demand, as the key factor.
Pfizer has begun what it claims is the world’s first ‘virtual’ trial and says that such innovation is needed to make sure clinical research is sustainable.
Parexel subsidiary and eClinical service provider, Perceptive Informatics, has announced the results of a global survey into site monitoring and management activities during clinical trials.
Quintiles will help South Korea develop its clinical research infrastructure under a new collaboration with the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical trials (KoNECT).
ACRO has welcomed new draft guidance on SAE reporting in trials issued by India's CDSCO, but has raised some concerns about the determination of causality and compensation.
The US Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) has adopted the latest version of the ANSI14155 standards for medical device trials.
