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Info & Opinion
May 9, 2008
New Network for Spine Studies
Spine-Specific SpineMark
The company believes its specialized facilities and investigators will be attractive to the medical device industry.
Monday News
United Biosource Buys Envision
With bulletins about Covance, NovaRx, Jordan, FDA and Medidata Solutions.
IDC Analyst
Slow Alignment of EDC, CRO Firms
CROs and EDC firms are working together, says Chris Connor, but let’s not forget the history.
Friday News
PharmaNet Earnings, Cancellations
A few news bulletins on Wyeth, Pfizer, Kansas, Parexel, SeraCare, Tigermed Consulting, Sundia Meditech, HD BioSciences, Merck and NovaSecta.
E-PRO Niche Expands
Diary Alliance: ClinPhone & invivodata
Two top firms, each specializing in different approaches to gathering patient experiences, will partner to help sponsors find the right technology.
Should the life sciences be in a self-congratulatory mood about moving away from paper and toward electronic data capture (EDC)? Nope. For Ron Waife, president of Waife & Associates, it may be premature to ask John Williams to compose a symphony to celebrate the shift. Waife is simply not sure… more...
Commonwealth Biotechnologies is pleased to announce further details regarding Venturepharm Asia, its joint venture with Venturepharm Laboratories (VPL). The partnership was established to leverage CBI’s and VPL’s respective strengths in drug discovery and clinical research. The initial focus will be to establish two new state-of-the-art chemistry facilities in Jiangsu province,… more...
etrials is in upheaval, with several executives coming and going. “etrials has been undergoing a series of rigorous Company-wide process improvement and reengineering initiatives designed to improve customer service, streamline internal processes, and at the same time reduce costs,” said president and CEO Chip Jennings. “In order to take full… more...
Is the $300 million interactive voice response system (IVRS) industry ripe for change? Is it failing to keep pace with the timelines of industry? Is it possible to transfer randomization to the web and have the customized nuances embedded in the system? Yes on all counts, says Ed Tourtellotte, proprietor… more...
Research on the spine is where cardiac research was 10 years ago, declares Marcy Rogers. And that’s why she’s working hard to establish a presence in what she considers a soon-to-boom field. Enter, then, San Diego-based SpineMark CRO Management, the industry’s sole spine-only contract research organization (CRO), launched in 2005… more...
Covance allowed a tour of a controversial Arizona lab for animal testing. “We always anticipate that there will be protests,” said Camilla Strongin, a spokeswoman for Covance’s public relations and lobbying firm, the Symington Group, chaired by former state governor Fife Symington. Here’s the story. NovaRx selected two elements of… more...
As contract research organizations (CRO) struggle to launch not just more trials but more complex studies, tension is built-in. A sponsor may ask that the CRO use a particular electronic data capture (EDC) supplier. But the sheer profusion of EDC vendors obligates some CROs to learn more than one system.… more...
