Thermo Fisher Scientific will take charge of clinical trial material production at Eli Lilly’s research technology facility in Indianapolis as the pharmaceutical firm further reduces in-house capacity to cut costs.
Clinical trials that finish early due to positive treatment effects often have misleading findings, according to a journal paper which recommends researchers resist pressures to end studies prematurely.
PPD has added capabilities at the facility acquired from Merck & Co and improved integration of other sites to create its Vaccines & Biologics Center of Excellence, a single provider of multiple laboratory services.
Compugen has developed a computer-based, in silico system which can assist drug delivery research by identifying peptides that have the potential to penetrate cell membranes.
Indian CMO Bilcare says need to test new drugs in diverse patient groups drove expansion of its cold chain clinical trial supply packaging and storage facility in Crickhowell, Wales.
INC Research is partnering with invivodata to add ePRO to its offering, selecting the eClinical firm over its competitors in part because it understands the “aggressive” approach the CRO takes.
Australia-based CRO TetraQ is doubling throughput of trial samples, resulting in a 30 per cent time saving for clients, by installing a Spark Symbiosis system at its site in Brisbane.
E Research Technology (ERT) launches Centralised Cardiac Safety 2.0 (CCS 2.0) service for ECG data and says approach improves efficiency, cuts costs and helps sponsors reach database lock quicker than distributed model.
Kendle has implemented a centralised biostatistics platform which will “create significant time savings” by improving global access to clinical trial data, according to the company.
An adaptive approach to both the design and operation of a clinical trial can boost efficiency, reduce timelines and cut costs says Health Decisions' CEO Michael Rosenberg.
OmniComm has launched a comprehensive Phase I eClinical tool, which it believes is the first of its kind, to help users make cost and time savings by improving efficiencies.
Trial planning can be a big challenge for small pharmas says US software group ClearTrial, which has launched a brand new contract study costing and optimisation service (SCOS).
URMC has set up the Center for Human Experimental Therapeutics (CHET) to help biotechs and academics advance product candidates from preclinical studies into trials in human.
BioClinica Optimizer has launched to allow users to simulate and optimise their clinical trials, providing information to identify potential supply shortages or excesses and study delays.
MedNet Solutions is introducing iMedNet, a pay-as-you-go web-based EDC platform to support collaboration and communication between clinical trial stakeholders.
Parexel has opened a 40 bed early phase clinical trial unit in South Africa, increasing its Phase I capabilities in the country and adding to its patient recruitment focused SuperSites network.
US Pharma firms can benefit from the sourcing, storage and distribution efficiencies offered by comparator drug sourcing and distribution specialist Pharmarama says managing director Rosemary Bensley.
Almac Clinical Services says novel temperature monitoring system speeds shipping and cuts quarantine times by allowing authorised personnel to make decisions on trial supplies at clinical sites 24/7.
Global contract research organisation (CRO) Quintiles hopes its anatomical pathology offering will attract the growing number of drugmakers developing cancer drugs for China.
Clinical trials are often biased against the recruitment of older people says the European Union's PREDICT group, which has launched a charter designed to protect such patients' right to take part.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued guidance on the use of Bayesian analysis in clinical trials of medical devices and says the technique can cut costs and boost efficiency.
Parexel has formed an alliance with Proteome Sciences to enhance its biomarker capabilities, allowing it to help clients make earlier assessments of new compounds in development.
Using intelligent compliance packaging in clinical trials can result in “huge cost savings” and this will ensure demand even during a period of cost-cutting, according to a sales manager at Stora Enso.
Consolidation in pharma, coupled to the trend for strategic partnerships, will lead to CRO mergers, with large companies getting bigger and small firms focusing on niche opportunities, according to a report.
US contract research organisation (CRO) PPD reported a “higher than anticipated” number of cancellations in Q4, bringing to a close 12 months that saw operating income fall 46 per cent to $192m.
Falling preclinical demand may have dominated Charles River Laboratories’ (CRL) performance in 2009, but stagnant sales from its research models business also failed to impress.
Integrated solutions are the future of trial data management according to Phase Forward as growth of the electronic data capture (EDC) market begins to slow.
Improving healthcare infrastructure across the region and a large treatment-naïve patient population makes the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) an increasingly attractive destination for drug trials says ClinTec CEO Rabinder Buttar.
ClearTrial says information is power in trial talks and claims its CTO software helped biotech firm save 20 per cent of bid cost through more informed negotiations with its CRO.
Arizona moved a step closer to excluding federally regulated research facilities from animal cruelty laws yesterday after the Senate National Resources, Infrastructure and Public Debt Committee voted in favour of such a move.
OmniComm has connected its TrialMaster EDC system to Microsoft (MS) HealthVault, allowing health records and data to be transferred to a patient’s file during clinical trials.
US CRO PPD has sold its biomarker discovery sciences unit to Caprion Proteomics, bucking the trend that has seen many of its sector rivals invest in this part of the contract research market.
MDS Pharma Services has adopted SAS Drug Development to allow for closer collaboration with sponsors and provide a centralised, integrated system for data management and analysis.
Malgorzata Szerszeniewska, CEO of Central and Eastern Europe’s (CEE) “newest” CRO EastHorn, says maintaining ethical standards is crucial to sustaining the rapid patient recruitment rates that characterise the region.
Fujitsu has launched a SaaS-based data management system which it claims can speed up clinical trials, eliminate set up and maintenance costs and allow CROs and sponsors to use the same IT environment.
Quintiles Transnational has selected US ePRO solutions provider Invivodata to help it meet growing regulatory pressure to focus on the patient perspectives during trials.
Conducting trials in smaller patient populations when developing personalised medicines poses challenges, such as how to recruit patients fast enough, but these can be overcome using adaptive methods, according to a CEO.
Outsourcing-pharma presents a round up of all the latest deals and developments in the contract research space. This week Synexus closes ClinPharm deal, GVK joins ResearchPoint Global and CliniPace wins gNO contract.
The SCDM says that edit checks are a crucial component of achieving error-free data and has updated its Good Clinical Data Management Practices (GCDMP) resource with a best practice guide.
US clinical trial review groups Independent Review Consulting (IRC) and Ethical Review Committee (ERC) are to merge and operate under the name Ethical and Independent Review Services (E&I).
A recently completed manufacturing and filling capacity expansion will help Florida Biologix meet deadlines and win repeat business according to company director Richard Snyder.
WuXi AppTec is partnering with Qiagen to develop biomarkers, assay panels and personalised healthcare diagnostics and will use these, and existing technologies, to further clients’ projects.
inVentiv Health claims the acquisition of ParagonRx positions it as the leading supplier of REMS services in the pharmaceutical contract services sector.
