DZS Software’s web-based clinical trial management software (CTMS) ClinPlus was selected by the medical device maker PhotoThera. The company plans to use ClinPlus in a clinical trial on a noninvasive transcranial laser energy therapy. “[W]e found the intuitive design of the system to be easy to navigate, which we felt eventually would translate into less training time and less potential for errors and frustration among the system users. We were also impressed with the simple elegance of the system,” said Cindy Croissant, PhotoThera’s director of clinical operations.

NextDocs forged a strategic partnership with speakTech, a system integrator specializing in Microsoft SharePoint. The two say they will offer a unified approach to delivering regulatory compliant document and quality management solutions for regulated organizations. Jean-Claude Monney, speakTech's chief solution strategy officer, said of NextDocs: “Their web-based solution extends the capabilities of SharePoint to meet clients' business and technical requirements, as well as assisting them with adherence to regulatory and compliance requirements set forth by the FDA.” Here's the release.

Montreal-based contract research organization (CRO) Lab Research named Daniel Ménard as president for Canadian operations. Ménard was most recently president and CEO of Algos Therapeutics (which last month switched focus and changed its name to Algos Preclinical Services). Here is a release on the hire.

MDS Pharma Services will host a series of scientific symposia for life science researchers during September and October at seven locations in the U.S. and Europe. For more information on the symposia, called “Expediting Timelines from Discovery through Clinical Proof-of-Concept,” go here. Our most recent story on MDS Pharma and its woes can be found here.

Phase Forward has contracted BMC Software to manage virtual machines in a data center.Said Thomas Winston, VP of global technical operations at Phase Forward: BMC "helps us automate and standardize many of our key technology processes, allowing us to cost-efficiently scale the business.” A release on the relationship is here.

There is a new report on the pharmaceutical and clinical trial market in India. The report was published by a major accounting firm and an Indian business association. Partly because of the country's IT savvy, the clinical trial services market is expected to grow at a rate of 21 percent annually. The document doesn't seem to be online, but a news release can be found here.

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