CRO (contract research organization) PRA Health Sciences reported in its earnings call on Tuesday that earlier in Q2 it acquired Value Health Solutions (VHS), a clinical development software company, for $2.5m.
CRO (contract research organization) Icon reported its highest level of quarterly bookings ever on Tuesday and the company’s stock jumped by about 15%.
Full-service CRO (contract research organization) Frontage Laboratories has acquired a 45% stake in BDM Consulting to expand its offerings in biostatistics, data management and SAS (statistical analysis system) programming.
With more than 90% of revenue coming from pharma and biotech companies outside the top 25, CRO SynteractHCR is seeing more growth stemming from an influx of funding to smaller biotech companies, CEO Wendel Barr told us on the third day of the 51st annual...
As biotech cash continues to flood the coffers of CROs (contract research organizations), large pharma R&D is still relatively flat, which means CROs will see about 6% growth annually, Brendan Brennan, CFO of Icon, told investors last week at the...
Full-service CRO (contract research organization) Veristat will move its corporate headquarters from Holliston, Massachusetts, to Southborough, Massachusetts, this summer as the company has outgrown its old space.
Experts across the sponsor-CRO spectrum seem to agree on at least one thing: the clinical trial process is ready for a major transformation, though how quickly and what types of innovations will be adopted the fastest remains to be seen.
Pfizer has selected PPD as its third preferred contract research organisation (CRO), but the addition will not affect ongoing relationships with Parexel and Icon, the firm says.
As part of efforts to reduce clinical trial start-up times, WIRB-Copernicus Group (WCG), the world's largest provider of regulatory and ethical review services for human research, said it will encourage the 1,200 members of its research network to...
EU-based Iris Pharma, an ophthalmology-focused CRO (contract research organization) and US-based Oculos Clinical Research, a full-service CRO, announced Thursday a strategic alliance that aims to help sponsors conduct more global clinical trials.
The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation approved 151 total clinical studies in Q1 of 2015, which is 11% less than the same quarter last year, though by comparison, it’s still 10 times more than India has approved in the same amount of time.
Full-service CRO (contract research organization) CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services is expanding its use of Medidata’s Clinical Cloud platform to improve operational efficiencies, data accessibility and decision-making processes for its clinical...
Competition in the notoriously tight-lipped CRO (contract research organization) and CMO (contract manufacturing organization) industries is getting fiercer as outsourcing picks up, though that hasn’t stopped one Chinese company from revealing who it...
CROs (contract research organizations) continue to collaborate with sponsors on more clinical trials in the US, though the largest companies, such as Quintiles, Parexel and PPD, are working on a much larger share of the research as collaborators than...
Wilmington, North Carolina-based CRO (contract research organization) PPD (Pharmaceutical Product Development) and Tokyo-based Shin Nippon Biomedical Laboratories (SNBL) have closed an agreement to form a joint venture to provide clinical development...
As CROs (contract research organizations) and sponsors look to shave off time from their clinical trial start-up phase, which is where delays occur most frequently, companies may want to look away from local IRBs (institutional review boards), an expert...
Ebola, electronic cigarettes and microbiomes are opportunities for the preclinical research sector according to delegates at a US industry conference this week.
The European CRO (contract research organization) Federation is calling on the EMA (European Medicines Agency) to not allow for the “unrestricted publication of inspection reports” as only “findings that are of relevance to the public should be made publicly...
Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.) and Pat Toomey (R-Penn.) reintroduced a bill that would permanently allow CROs (contract research organizations) to capture a share of the R&D tax credit.
The China Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) is proposing to amend its GCP (good clinical practices) to add more specific responsibilities for sponsors, Ethics Committees (ECs) and sites as part of efforts to further protect study subjects, experts say.
Covance’s 5% revenue growth and a book-to-bill ratio of 1.3 for the fourth quarter 2014 was better than anticipated and an encouraging sign for LabCorp, an analyst says.
Improving investigative site relationships in 2015 is a top priority for pharma and CRO (contract research organization) execs, according to a roundtable recently hosted by the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development.
The Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) is bringing in BioClinica as a regular member and Theorem Clinical Research as an associate member.
Sydney-based contract research organization Novotech has expanded its Hong Kong operations with a new permanent office and prospects for four more staffers to meet the increasing demand in the research market.
Quintiles has said Pfizer will “remain a customer” after analysts said the CRO lost out to a privately-owned contractor in the race to be the drug giant's third alliance partner.
CROs are due to see an increasing workload in 2015, though the way they conduct trials with partners may continue to shift, according to the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development’s Outlook for 2015.
PPD and SNBL will set up a clinical services joint venture (JV) in Japan and collaborate on preclinical and Phase I bridging studies under a new agreement.
Regulatory reviewers spend more time managing incoming data than on the drug evaluation process, says Instem which has inked a deal with WIL Research for its nonclinical IT systems.
Veeva Systems has reported a robust Q3 strengthened by increasing interest in its cloud-based clinical trial management software and a deal with inVentiv Health.
As part of a major transparency effort, the NIH (National Institutes of Health) and FDA are proposing to require the release of summary results of clinical trials for products that are unapproved or unlicensed.
Collaboration does not mean drugmakers have started playing nice, it’s just that the pain of shared problems has become unbearable according to TransCelerate Biopharma CEO, Dalvir Gill.
The IPO boom for CROs is kicking off with INC Research’s stock offering, which as of Friday afternoon saw a nearly 10% rise, meaning the company raised more than $150m.
Lab Corp will buy Covance for $6.1bn in a surprise deal that follows another quarter in which early phase gains were offset by underperformance in central labs.
Weaker demand in Europe and Japan saw revenue from Charles River Laboratories' animal models business decline in Q3, but Argenta and BioFocus boosted discovery sales.
The Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) on Monday announced plans to create a CRO Forum in order to provide a formal mechanism for the CRO industry to offer insight into the work of industry group TransCelerate BioPharma.
Fraudsters who hoodwinked Medidata Solutions into transferring $4.8m to an "overseas" account this month did not access customer data says the clinical trial IT firm.
At the request of the European Commission, the EMA (European Medicines Agency) announced Friday that it would open a review into findings that GVK Biosciences’ site in Hyderabad, India falsified electrocardiograms in all nine clinical trials evaluated.
Charles River Labs (CRL) has singled out China as an area of “disproportionate growth” in biologics R&D and says it is on the hunt for preclinical acquisitions in the region.
