News & Analysis on Clinical Trial Services & Contract Research And Development
Barack Obama’s support for R&D tax credits to boost innovation is designed to assuage Big Pharma’s fears about a ban on “authorised generics,” and new “comparative effectiveness" tests, according to Datamonitor’s Sandra Reynolds.
Despite going through a difficult period PharmaNet is continuing to expand through the opening of another office in Latin America, which reinforces its commitment to the region.
Alamac Clinical Services (ACS) has added a new cold-chain and supply storage facility at its site in Craigavon, Northern Ireland in response to what it describes as an “unprecedented increase in demand” from drug industry clients.
Study site operators want greater use of EDC technologies and more pharma industry investment to boost patient recruitment and reduce delays in clinical trials, according to an industry report due to be published next week.
Indian process technology firm ACE Technologies has won the contract to sell and service GEA Pharma Systems’ range of Courtoy tablet presses to local drug manufacturers as part of the latter company’s Asian expansion plan.
Two UK-based companies, PRECOS and Argenta Discovery, have pooled their resources in the area of cancer drug discovery to provide services spanning “from hit finding to in vivo proof-of-concept.”