Pharma industry sponsors want more effective ways of measuring CRO performance according to the team behind a new project aiming to develop a validated set of analysis tools.
CRO performance across late stage, Phase I and central laboratories should improve in 2012 as strategic deals develop and smaller clients return, an analyst said.
The growth seen in the early-phase contract development sector earlier this year may have stalled as pharmaceutical industry sponsors continue to hold off on expensive toxicology studies, according to new analysis.
US CRO Charles River Laboratories (CRL) has rejigged its upper management as part of a business realignment that unifies its regional research model and preclinical development businesses.
The EMA says current GCP rules make quality management in trials too costly and need to be revised into a code that meets the needs of academics, small and midsized drugmakers and Big Pharmas alike.
Russian authorities need to dedicate more resources to reviewing trial applications ahead of new site accreditation rules due to come into effect later this year according to report on the country’s contract research sector.
The CEO of Covance has warned it will be “very, very difficult” for CROs expanding through M&A to integrate assets, and the process could see clients go elsewhere.
An equity analyst has downgraded Icon and Parexel, following the Irish CRO’s Q2 results, and warned that its “enthusiasm for strategic deals is waning”.
CRO Popsi Cube has become an active member of Medicen Paris Region, a network of firms, research centres, universities, hospitals and economic development parks hosting biotechnology companies in the French capital.
US drug giant Pfizer will maintain a 350-strong research unit at its facility in Sandwich, Kent in the UK after revising its previous plan to find CROs to take over R&D operations.
Indian contract research organisation (CRO) GVK Biosciences has signed a deal allowing pharmaceutical researchers across the US to access its clinical biomarker database.
Quintiles will help South Korea develop its clinical research infrastructure under a new collaboration with the Korea National Enterprise for Clinical trials (KoNECT).
US contract research organisation (CRO) PRA International claims it intends to “reshape how the industry manages trials” after acquiring Indian eClinical software developer, Kinship Technologies, for an undisclosed amount.
Clinical Financial Services (CFS), a US financial management company specialising in clinical trial management, has launched its new Site Activation Services offering, designed to ‘streamline and automate’ the trial activation process.
India’s Veeda Clinical Research has set up a Phase I unit in Malaysia, joining the growing list of contract research organisations (CRO) attracted to the country.
Phlexglobal, a contract research organisation (CRO) specialising in trial master file (TMF) and eTMF management, has expanded its US operations with the opening of an office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Indian contract research organisation (CRO) GVK Biosciences has granted the US FDA continued access to its biomarker database in an extension of the organisations’ existing agreement.
French preclinical contract research organisation (CRO) CIT has said it will buy Canadian counterpart LAB Research in a deal that would rescue the Quebec-based firm from the receivers.
Contract research organisation (CRO) Clearstone Central Laboratories has unveiled a ‘preferred provider’ partnership with Mitsubishi Chemical Medience (MCM), continuing its efforts to expand in Asia.
Copley Scientific, the Nottingham, UK-based lab equipment manufacturer, has confirmed delivery of eight tablet dissolution testers to contract research organisation (CRO), Melbourn Scientific.
ShangPharma said it saw revenue climb on higher customer spending in the fourth quarter, but that margins slid due to currency effects and higher share-based compensation.