Contract research organisation Bio-Imaging Technologies has decided to sell off its CapMed subsidiary in order to focus its efforts on its core business, providing imaging series to clinical investigators.
The proportion of global clinical trials conducted In India is expected to more than double between 2007 and 2012, according to market research firm RNCOS.
Perceptive Informatics has gained the right to use EQ-5D, which will allow the company to offer clinical study sponsors the option to collect health-related quality of life outcomes using a telephone.
Simple preclinical experiments should be able to predict whether immunotherapeutic medicines are safe to advance to preclinical testing in humans and avoid the Northwick Park trial that left six healthy volunteers hospitalised.
Canadian contract services company MDS Pharma Services reported disappointing results in its fiscal fourth quarter, with revenues dropping 9 per cent to $112m.
Contract research organisation PharmaNet Development Group is considering a sale of the business as it tries to recover from a difficult year marked by shrinking revenues and cancelled contracts.
There is no formal requirement to inform clinical trial participants of the results of the study, a situation which can leave them “confused, frustrated and, in some cases, lacking information that may be important to their health,” according to a report...
The MHRA has renewed its approval of Almac’s facility in North Carolina, bringing an end to a busy and successful four months of inspections at the clinical services group’s facilities.
Thermo Fisher Scientific has opened a clinical services facility in India, which will provide biopharma services to companies operating clinical trials.
India’s Bilcare has expanded its clinical trial materials business in its own market with the opening of new packaging and storage capacity at its facilities in Pune, India.
Contract research organisation PRA International has signed an agreement with fellow US firm Frontage Laboratories to expand the range of laboratory services it can offer to its clients.
Metrics’ new potent and cytotoxic drug development facility was the subject of a press conference at this year’s AAPS, where the company explained how the plant “raised the industry bar”.
The US CRO market is predicted to have a healthy future, with the greatest potential for growth in the preclinical sector, according to a report by Frost & Sullivan.
Troubled contract research organisation Encorium Group finally published its delayed financial results yesterday, posting a net loss of $3.9m, three times the year-earlier loss.
The proportion of women in clinical trials has become more representative, although there are still areas for improvement, according to research by the FDA.
Clinical research organisation Encorium has postponed the release of its third quarter results but said it still expects the figures to be in line with its most up-to-date guidance.
India’s Jubilant Organosys has bolstered its mid-range contract research portfolio by buying Canadian electronic data capture (EDC) specialist TrialStat ClinicalAnalytics.
Recent European legislation designed to increase the number of children in clinical trials has had a positive impact in ensuring that paediatric patients are included in medicine testing.
A UK development think-tank has warned against a knee-jerk reaction against conducting clinical trials in India, following the revelation a few weeks ago that dozens of children had lost their lives in studies conducted at a contract research facility.
Kendle International has posted impressive third quarter results, despite seeing a dramatic increase in the number of contract cancellations during the period.
Cost pressure and the increasing complexity of trials is forcing drugmakers to increasingly turn to outsourcing experts for clinical development, according to a Kalorama Information report.
Contract research organisation Parexel posted a 26 per cent hike in first quarter revenues to $263m but still failed to meet its own internal sales targets and saw net profits slide.
Clinical research specialist PharmaNet Development Group reported a decline in both sales and earnings for the third quarter but has kept its guidance for the financial year at the same level, albeit excluding an as-yet unresolved impairment charge.
Irish contract developer and service provider Icon is not seeing a slowdown in business from biotechnology firms despite global downturn, according to CEO Peter Gray.
Covance has defied challenging market conditions and posted positive results for the third quarter, with the company believing more major R&D outsourcing contracts are a possibility.
Patheon hopes that a new pharmaceutical development services (PDS) suite at its facility in Whitby, Ontario will complete its “Quick to Clinic” offering and provide a rapid-response means of making solid dosage forms for trials.
Increasing bureaucracy in clinical research in the UK is posing a threat to the industry, according to a report published in the British Medical Journal.
The pharmaceutical industry must adapt its processes and strategies to cope with a new, tougher operating environment, according to Stefan Borgas, CEO of Lonza.
Contract drug development company Azopharma Product Development has set up a new business unit to cater for companies wanting to run microdosing or so-called Phase 0 studies.
Pharmaceutical Profiles of the UK has completed a groundbreaking study that bundles together a number of tests used to decide whether a drug development candidate is worth pursuing into a single clinical trial.
Cancer drugs could enter clinical trials and ultimately reach cancer patients faster thanks to legal contract templates created by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer.
After months of deliberations, a court in Iowa has opted to fine contract manufacturing company Cambrex $6,000 for safety violations after an explosion at its facility in Charles City.
US-based contract research organisation Medelis has founded a European division, Medelis Europe, to bring its expertise in oncology clinical trials design and management to customers wanting to launch drugs in Europe.
PPD has been selected as the full-service preferred provider for translational clinical development services by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF).
Contract research organisation Encorium has bought $250,000 of its own stock in a bid to stabilise its share price, which has been in steep decline in recent weeks.
Mere weeks after signing major strategic collaborations with contract service firms Covance, Quintiles and 3i, Eli Lilly has journeyed further down the outsourcing route – albeit with a different spin – by forging another agreement with India’s Jubilant...
Canada’s Ethica Clinical Research has expanded into the emerging Latin American market via a joint venture with Argentinean contract research organisation Blanchard y Asociados.
Pfizer is shifting its research focus to those diseases where its sees the potential for the biggest treatment improvements and profits, while dropping eight disease areas including cholesterol.
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