Encorium has abandoned plans to sell its Finnish unit, Encorium OY, citing its new strategic focus and recent contract wins as the basis for the decision.
Indian CRO Siro Clinpharma has ramped up clinical trial manufacturing capacity at its facility in Mumbai in response to growing demand from pharma and biotech firms.
ChemDiv’s subsidiary Chemical Diversity Research Institute (CDRI), based in Moscow, Russia, will carry out development work on a range of HIV antivirals on behalf of new drugmaker Viriom.
Lonza says that to the Indian market was a key motivation for its acquisition of Simbiosys Biowares India preclinical cell and molecular biology assets.
World Courier has opened investigational drug storage facilities in South Africa and Australia, a move it says is in response to growth in the regions' clinical trials markets.
MDS Pharma Services’ Central Labs division is to be acquired by Czura Thornton, a private investment group that owns Chiltern, for approximately $8m (€5.4m) as part of the CRO’s repositioning.
NextPharma Technologies has added clinical trial services to its US offering to meet what product development services MD Sean Marett described as growing demand for single source outsourcing solutions.
Following a “significant increase in demand” GVK Biosciences has partnered with Quantitative Solutions (QS) to develop and market clinical trial outcome databases, which they believe can improve drug development.
US life science firm Sigma-Aldrich has received a Michael J Fox Foundation (MJFF) grant to create knockout-rat models of Parkinson’s disease (PD) to improve preclinical drug development.
CROs believe that finding the right principal investigators is the hardest part of recruitment, according to a survey that adds that 80 per cent of respondents would prefer to reach enrolment goals 10 per cent quicker than cut costs by 20 per cent.
Hungarian drugmaker Gedeon Richter will use Phase Forward’s Clintrial software package to manage its study programmes under a deal signed late last week.
The AAHRPP has issued a major revision of its standards, the first time it has done so, adding sections on transnational research and the separation of business interests from ethics review.
MDS Pharma Services has become the first CRO in the UK and second in the US to gain certification from the Brazilian regulatory agency after a “major client” requested it sought accreditation.
ClearTrial has expanded its eClinical offering to create “the only system in the industry” that can provide fast and accurate project tracking, management of accrued liabilities and midstream study adjustments.
Axiom Accelerated Patient Recruitment hopes its new range of SMS, text messaging, services can help CROs and pharma sponsors reach more potential study participants.
Clinical trials of cancer vaccines should enrol patients with no evidence of residual disease, according to FDA guidance, but this will increase development times compared to cytotoxic agents.
Fierce competition from India and China means it is unlikely that CROs and CMOs in CEE can generate sustainable growth, according to a report that believes the service model must be a “stepping stone” to creating innovative R&D businesses.
The Pan-African Clinical Trials Registry (PACTR) has become the first such database to be endorsed by the WHO, providing the world with access to studies on the continent and improving efficiencies.
US CRO Health Decision says the new “Monitor View” module for its HD360 trial management system makes assessing study site performance an easier and more cost effective process.
ethica Clinical has added biomarker data analysis technology to its roster of services in a C$1.25m (€782,899) deal with fellow Canadian CRO Matrix Pharma.
Improved access to data and the ability for users to share comments are among the features added to latest version of Veracity, an electronic data capture (EDC) system from Kika Clinical Solutions.
US CMO Florida Biologix (FB) says its new contract with America Stem Cell (ASC) shows that demand for trial-phase biologics manufacturing is starting to recover.
The GAO sting operation and subsequent increased scrutiny will “definitely change how pharma and CROs choose IRBs”, according to the VP of NEIRB who spoke to Outsourcing-Pharma after successfully completing a FDA audit.
The FDA is hoping to increase the likelihood of a clinical trial being successful by making best use of science and alternative study designs and has issued end-of-Phase IIa (EOP2A) meeting guidance to explain the process.
UK CMO SCM Pharma says its new commercial supply service, due to be officially launched at next month’s ICSE conference in Madrid, has already won two long-term manufacturing contracts.
Funding increases have failed to boost pharma drug development productivity and, with budgets tightening, the industry must revise its operations to improve output, according to a research paper.
Quintiles has targeted Africa as the next non-traditional area to develop new medicines and the opening of its office in Ghana, which is now fully operational, is a major step in this process, Gillian Corken, head of Quintiles in Africa, told Outsourcing-Pharma.
Phase Forward has adopted technologies from BMC Software to improve its operational efficiency, make “substantial cost savings” and ensure its systems maintain the availability, reliability and compliance demanded by clients.
Recruiting patients with rare diseases for clinical trials could become easier if the US Congress passes a bill to allow patients on supplemental security income (SSI) benefits to receive compensation.
BioClinica is continuing to acquire companies in the wake of the collapse of its etrials bid, buying software and services provider Tourtellotte Solutions just over two weeks after its last takeover.
QPS’ bioanalytical laboratory in Taiwan is the first in the country to be certified as compliant with good laboratory practice (GLP) standards by the Department of health (DoH), according to unit president Vincent Yen.
Virtify says the new online version of its Virtx CTRR system can help drugmakers comply with the increasingly complex disclosure rules that regulators worldwide apply to clinical trials, in an automated approach that saves time and money.
Quintiles believes there is a “dire need” for trial sites that can raise standards and reduce inefficiencies in the clinical research process and is expanding its Prime Site programme to meet this demand.
Outsourcing to a well known CRO with a good reputation is vital to ensuring that data is well received by regulatory authorities, according to a CEO that just inked a deal for preclinical safety testing.
Orasi Medical claims CROs and pharmas can cut the cost and length of Alzheimer’s trials, and improve accuracy, by using its brain function measuring service, which is now being promoted in Japan.
Colorado trial support services group nSpire Health says its Koko spirometry and PiKoLogic ePro technologies were crucial factors in winning more than $9m (€6.1m) worth of clinical research contracts.
Canadian group Clinical Logistics (CL) and US analysis specialist Gentris have teamed up to develop a dedicated low temperature storage service for clinical cell and DNA samples collected during drug trials.
Hyderabad, India-based Makro Care says its GCP “helpdesk” website has already proved to be an invaluable information source for contract research organisations (CRO), investigators and pharma trial sponsors.
Biotechs that partner or outsource in emerging markets are better equipped to innovate and prosper, according to research that warns “if you are not in Shanghai, Mumbai, or Dubai, watch out".
The new partnership with Indian CRO Abridge Clinical Research (ACR) is a unique collaboration offering cost efficient and timely trial solutions according to Global Pharmaceutical Services (GPSI) spokesperson Keith Russell.
Russia-based CRO SynRG has cut the time to prepare a detailed proposal from two weeks to two hours, giving the company a competitive advantage over its rivals, and established a presence in the US to target small to mid-sized companies.
The outsourcing “market is poised to return to healthier growth rates in 2010”, according to the president of MDS Pharma Services who also told Outsourcing-Pharma that CROs will play an increasingly important role in drug development.
Covance says its new clinical development offices in Brazil and Mexico will increase access to treatment-naïve patients and, ultimately, save pharmaceutical sponsors money.
Encorium has outlined plans to specialise in vaccines, which it believes is an area it can be more flexible than big CROs, and inked a swine flu deal as part of $8.7m (€6m) of new contracts.
Transcrip Partners’ “augmentation” solution for contract R&D “differs from the normal consultancy alternative by fielding ‘doers’ who can think strategically and ‘thinkers’ who are happy to get their hands dirty” according to senior partner Paul Branthwaite.
Phlexglobal’s new contract with UCB will improve how the Belgian drug firm manages trials and is indicative of a wider industry move towards eTMF, according to CEO Nicola Murgatroyd.
CRO Averion is planning to become a private company to reduce expenditure on auditor fees, which could realise savings of $805,000 (€561,000), and allow management to better focus on long-term goals.
US CRO and central laboratory services provider Pacific Biometrics (PBI) has entered into a $4m (€2.7m) loan agreement that it says will help further the development of its contract biomarkers business.
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