A strategic partnership between New England IRB (NEIRB) and Veritas IRB of Montreal will see their clients following a common protocol review for studies they conduct throughout the US and Canada.
Easily translatable and adaptable simplified clinical research ethic training guidelines have been created to support field workers in low-resource settings.
Oracle Health Sciences has strengthened its clinical trial analytics offering to reduce start up times and offer greater insight into screening, recruitment and retention.
Wipro Technologies has introduced Rapid Trials to provide clients with a data collection platform that can be deployed quickly and with minimal infrastructure investment.
BioClinica shareholder Nicusa Capital is calling for the resignation of CEO Mark Weinstein, CFO Ted Kaminer and Chairman David Nowiki, after describing the firm’s corporate strategy as “defective.”
Advanced cardiovascular and metabolic services will be provided to biopharm by a strategic collaboration between CROs Cardialysis and Sticares InterACT.
The world’s biggest drugmaker, Pfizer, is set to bulk up its collaborative research partnerships with CROs and academics in Asia to lower costs and produce more affordable drugs.
Addressing the drug industry's need to demonstrate value to stakeholders presents a significant opportunity for service providers, according to Jim Featherstone, VP of Quintiles' commercial arm.
Creation of large datasets for use in comparative effectiveness research and other fields could be limited by privacy modifications to the HITECH act, according to ACRO.
Clinical data management is, and will continue to be a key concern for the pharmaceutical industry, according to Susan Bornstein, executive vice president of eClinical solutions, who discussed the issue with Outsourcing-pharma earlier this week.
Patient recruiters and national regulators must learn from each other to better understand outreach tactics and how they fit with a country’s ethics and laws.
Retention strategies, trial site evaluations and dedicated budgets should be used to recruit patients to, and keep them in, clinical trials, according to research.
Aterovax has teamed up with Biomnis to target the clinical trial industry with a new atherosclerosis biomarker, sPLA2, designed to give researchers better insight into a candidate heart drug’s therapeutic potential.
Almac says an effective biomarker strategy boosts a drug candidates’ chance of success and can ultimately add value to a developer’s business by opening door to diagnostics.
The Asia Pacific trial sector grew during the global economic downturn as sponsors sought to improve access to patients, cut costs and improve data quality according to Novotech CEO Alek Safarian.
Questions about the ethics and scientific validity of trials conducted under the Pediatric Exclusivity Provision have been raised after researchers found many studies used sites outside the US.
Spaulding Clinical has renovated its Phase I pharmacology unit, citing both sponsor and regulatory demand for centralized cardiac monitoring as drivers.
Drug industry focus on clinical data quality, cost and speed is key driver for recent growth of Hungarian trials business says patient recruitment specialist Synexus.
Warnex says demand for contract analysis services increase in Q2 thanks to expansion in diagnostics market and forecasts growth opportunities in India.
Ockham looks east for patient recruitment, setting up partnership with Russlan Clinical Research (RCR) to increase access to in-demand clinical trial destination.
Japanese researchers look set to have another option for biomarker analysis, after Thermo Fisher Scientific unveils plans for Tokyo research laboratory unit.
CRO Quintiles says biomarkers give insight into cancer drug candidates’ efficacy earlier in the development process, reducing trial costs and duration.
Encorium has bought Progenitor International Research, furthering efforts to fix its financial woes by focusing on vaccines, oncology and growth in emerging markets.
Applied Clinical Intelligence (ACI) has launched iCommittees to provide a platform to support sponsors’ needs for clinical endpoint adjudication and data monitoring committees (DMC).
Quintiles’ Jay Norman tells Outsourcing-pharma that data sharing and patient and payer concerns will drive drug industry competition and clinical development decisions accord to new research.
Ireland-based Firecrest Clinical says focusing on trial specific training and visits for principal investigators can speed recruitment, cut protocol deviations and produce cleaner data.
Quintiles is establishing its first Prime Site in Asia by entering into a strategic alliance with the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) in Malaysia.
Indian CROs Max Neeman International and QED Pharmaceutical Services have both added US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) CDISC compliance to their data management offering this month.
Demand for biomarker analysis is strong, but the pace of technological change is causing an investment headache for CROs according to a new report by Industry Standard Research (ISR).
The Singaporean government has launched two new certification courses for clinical researchers in a bid to “deepen the pool of skilled manpower” available to the country’s rapidly expanding contract research sector.
A US group representing hospitals in New York wants to accelerate clinical research process by improving trial access to electronic patient records, while maintaining patient privacy.
