21-May-2013 - US House Democrats have re-introduced a bill that would expand trial data reported by companies to clinicaltrials.gov, but a recent EU court decision shows what kind of resistance should be expected....
21-May-2013 - Supplementing prospective randomized, double-blinded clinical trial data with real-world patient data holds “an enormous amount of potential” for CROs and trial sponsors, according to an expert.
20-May-2013 - CRO Harlan Laboratories has more than doubled the number of isolators at its Indianapolis and Livermore, Calif., research facilities to meet client demand for immunocompromised animal models.
20-May-2013 - Although preclinical work for CROs has fallen flat in recent quarters, Covance is looking to take advantage of the industry’s shift to early biologic developments and lead optimization.
17-May-2013 - US CRO PRA is proposing to go public again, more than six years since it was taken private, according to a confidential draft registration statement submitted to the US SEC.
16-May-2013 - BioDuro opened a new laboratory in Shanghai, China on Wednesday to offer a range of customized biopharma services for its Asia Pacific clients.
16-May-2013 - Just days after raising more than $1B in its IPO, Quintiles announced Wednesday it signed a five-year clinical development agreement with Merck Serono.
15-May-2013 - PRA International says technology and IT innovation will help it compete with rivals that have moved their service centres to cheaper locations in the East to cut costs.
15-May-2013 - Better than expected growth in Wuxi’s manufacturing services has driven the CRO to exceed its earlier guidance in the first quarter of 2013.
14-May-2013 - Evotec says it is confident underlying growth, expansion of its clinical stage pipeline and upcoming milestone payments will counter Q1’s downcast results.
14-May-2013 - Research Pharmaceutical Services' (RPS) former chief information officer (CIO) claims he was unfairly dismissed after discovering the CRO was unlawfully storing potential employees' personal data.
13-May-2013 - Tension between clinical trial sponsors and CROs in terms of CRO oversight may not be relieved any time soon, but both sides seem intent on arriving at a middle ground...
13-May-2013 - Clinical trial sites in India will be inspected at least once a year under a new regulatory plan issued by the CDSCO.
07-May-2013 - With a more than 27 percent increase in revenue for Q3 of FY 2013 over the same quarter last year, CRO Parexel has raised its guidance for both the fiscal...
07-May-2013 - US private-equity group Mercury Capital has bought a 30 per cent stake in Australian CRO Novotech.
07-May-2013 - CRO ClinTec International says a new Master’s degree course will help research professionals make tremendous strides in the highly competitive global clinical research market.
06-May-2013 - Covance’s 10 percent growth in Q1 2013 compared to the same quarter last year was driven mostly by its central laboratories business and has caused a boost in its revenue...
02-May-2013 - Following the completion of remediation efforts to deal with an FDA warning letter, Chris Phillips, AMRI's senior director of its Burlington, Massachusetts site, discusses what he considers to be a "new...
30-Apr-2013 - CRO Quintiles and its shareholders are offering more than 19 million shares of common stock that will be priced between $36 and $40 per share, according to an updated S-1...
30-Apr-2013 - With a ruling that could have implications for any CRO looking to understand its rights under a MSA (master services agreement) with a sponsor, a federal district court in Ohio...
29-Apr-2013 - Icon’s first quarter FY2013 revenue increased 26% year on year, besting analysts’ expectations and resulting in a nearly 7% increase in the company’s stock price.
22-Apr-2013 - The Kansas Bioscience Authority has awarded a $400,000 grant to the CRO PRA to create a new program to attract recent college graduates into the clinical research and CRO industries.
22-Apr-2013 - Despite a downturn in the number of clinical trials across all phases, CROs may still see a substantial increase in bookings as large pharma and biotech companies look to keep...
18-Apr-2013 - A man has been given a custodial sentence by a court in Edinburgh, UK after being found guilty of altering preclinical trial data.
18-Apr-2013 - Draft revisions to the Declaration of Helsinki (DoH) clarify how placebos should be used and add a general principle for adequate compensation to injured trial participants according to the WMA.