24-May-2012 - US CRO Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) predicts that new CEO Dave Simmons' ‘pharmaceutical industry experience’ gained at Pfizer will be an asset in guiding partnerships.
16-May-2012 - Ensuring outsourced clinical research is of a high standard is critical to the viability of the pharma sector and requires cross industry collaboration according to leaders gathered at the Avoca Group’s Quality Summit.
03-May-2012 - A doubling in the percentage of new clients buying more than one product helped Medidata beat first quarter expectations.
02-May-2012 - Chiltern has set up a legal entity in Taiwan that will allow it to establish its own local clinical research operations for the first time.
02-May-2012 - Gross bookings at Parexel topped $1bn in the third quarter but the need to accelerate hiring again led to a cut to earnings guidance.
30-Apr-2012 - Outsourcing-Pharma looks at the wages of the remaining big four public CROs and how they compare to operating income.
26-Apr-2012 - Pharma sponsors and leading CROs will come together next week at a ‘Quality Summit’ held by consulting and research survey firm the Avoca Group.
25-Apr-2012 - New business awards at Icon soared in the first quarter after IT investments helped it win two big deals with non-strategic clients.
24-Apr-2012 - Quintiles’ decision to hire Accenture’s Tom Pike as its new CEO suggests consulting services will be even more important in the future for the world’s largest CRO.
24-Apr-2012 - Icon posted double-digit year-on-year sales growth and an uptick, excluding one-off charges, in operating income.
18-Apr-2012 - INC Research has formed a FSP deal with Astellas and is building a 600-strong dedicated unit to serve the relationship.
18-Apr-2012 - inVentiv CEO says PharmaNet and i3 integration ‘essentially complete’ and that – while demand from individual customers can fluctuate - the combination of the two businesses is creating new opportunities.
17-Apr-2012 - Moody’s Investors Service has cut its rating of inVentiv Health, suggesting the firm's recently expanded CRO business faces 'continued challenges.'
16-Apr-2012 - Almac says the adoption of ‘lean six sigma’ was the right move for its clinical technologies business, even taking higher initial training costs into account.
11-Apr-2012 - Acquisition by private equity group Genstar Capital would allow eResearch Technologies (ERT) a more flexible approach and reduce costs according to CEO Jeff Litwin.
10-Apr-2012 - eResearchTechnology (ERT) has received a $400m (€305m) takeover bid from private equity group Genstar Capital LLC.
10-Apr-2012 - The Indian regulator is adding staff and strengthening infrastructure to enforce its new clinical trial guidelines, a government minister said.
05-Apr-2012 - Regulatory reform was the name of the game at this year’s DIA Euromeeting in Denmark.
05-Apr-2012 - GE Healthcare has bought a nucleic acid technology CRO, SeqWright, to add to its range of genomic services.
03-Apr-2012 - INC Research and inVentiv Health must “quickly and effectively” integrate acquisitions to compete with other CROs, S&P said.
02-Apr-2012 - The EMA wants greater engagement from the drug industry to help it modernise regulation and join the "unconnected boxes" that separate stakeholders.
02-Apr-2012 - Inspectors are more likely to find medical care failings at CROs than sponsors, a Health Canada report found.
29-Mar-2012 - INC Research says the closure of former Kendle office in Connecticut will better balance resources and that – where possible – staff will be reassigned.
28-Mar-2012 - US CRO INC Research will close an office it gained through its acquisition of Kendle International last year.
28-Mar-2012 - New research suggests that – in general - strategic partnerships are working but CROs still need to improve on sponsors’ ‘high priority’ objectives or risk losing deals.