Category Archives: CRO/Sponsor

Hiring Up for CROs and Services

Recently, ZRG Partners, an executive search firm, released its Q4 2011 stats on hiring in the global life sciences. The good news for the Outsourcing and Services segment, it jumped 39% in hiring from Q3 2011. The hiring leader was Quintiles, outpacing other CROs in ZRG’s Index including Covance, PPD, Charles River Laboratories, ICON Clinical, [...]
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Keeping Up with Cardiac Safety

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Quicker Review for Generics and Biosimilars on the Horizon

The FDA’s review process for new drugs is slow. That is not news. But if a new agreement between the agency and the industry is approved by Congress things might get a little quicker.
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Informed Consent: Too Complex for the Average American?

How informed is consent if many of the patients don’t understand the forms? That’s the question that researchers must grapple in the wake of an interesting study of informed consent forms used by IRBs. Although limited in scope, “Informed Consent for Perioperative Research: How Readable are the Forms?” which was presented at the American Society [...]
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UN-Administered Database

Collaboration between competitors is a growing trend in the clinical trial community. There have been numerous reports in the past few years of traditional rivals pooling their resources for the mutual benefit of both organizations. Last week the AP reported a new twist on the concept, as eight drug makers entered into an agreement to share [...]
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Roche Takes a Step Forward with Personalized Medicine

Roche took a step forward in personalized medicine with the approval earlier this month of a new drug and related diagnostic to treat certain forms of metastatic melanoma. Roche’s strategy of developing drugs and related diagnostics shows the potential business and therapeutic value of personalized medicines.
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Did Someone Say Biotech?

Not just someone, but a lot of people. In conversations I’ve had with thought-leaders in the clinical trials space over the year, biotech companies are the place where growth will be seen for clinical trials. Even our own Advanstar Pharma/Science Editorial Director for Pharmaceutical Technology and BioPharm International Michelle Hoffman has indicated that biotech companies [...]
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Facebook: Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

We like to be heard if we’re willing to listen. And yet, until now, pharmaceutical companies with a presence on Facebook have understandably been reluctant to “listen” by allowing consumers to post comments on their Facebook pages. That changes on Monday, August 15, and the change leaves many pharma companies facing a dilemma. Most people agree [...]
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Biosimilars Much to Learn and More to Come

There’s been much talk about biosimilars this year, and forecasts pin the global biosimilars market at $19.4 billion by 2014, growing at an expected CAGR of 89.1% between 2009 and 2014. The development costs for a single biosimilar molecule hovers between a large span of $50 million and $200 million. So why all the attention? The [...]
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