Kendle hired Jeffrey Zucker as senior director of patient recruitment. A psychologist, he previously worked at Merck, Lilly and CRI Worldwide. Here's a release. ClinTec International raised $12.4 million from Elephant Capital, a British investor group that is focusing on opportunities in India. The contract research organization will also get three new board members as part of…more...

Almac launched a new program to help sponsors find biomarkers. Said Paul Harkin, president and managing director of the company's diagnostics division: “We have combined a range of key solutions which are ideally suited to growing biopharma companies.” PPD will expand its laboratory services on the east coast of the U.S. to handle cGMP projects for biotechnology…more...

A commercial North Carolina institutional review board (IRB), Copernicus Group IRB, has received ISO 9001 certification. The company has a paperless system to manage clinical trial forms. “To our knowledge, CGIRB is the only central IRB that has achieved this certification. It is further evidence to our clients and the subjects of research studies that the quality…more...

BBK announced a new version of its software to manage patient recruitment campaigns. The firm released a new mobile application for customers with Blackberry and Apple smartphones. The software supports 12 different languages: Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. "The smart phone app provides immediate access to study-goal information, enrollment…more...

Merge Healthcare said that imaging core lab Intrinsic Imaging would be the first company to use its system for managing images. "This will result in Intrinsic performing medical imaging trials more efficiently and cost effectively than other service providers," said Todd Joron, president and COO of Intrinsic. "The coupling of our deep radiology, therapeutic and clinical trial…more...

The journal Nature Reviews Drug Discovery has a subscription-only article about an adaptive Phase II trial in oncology. The trial is using biomarkers found in tissue biopsies. One expert quoted is Roy Herbst of the MD Anderson Cancer Center, which has helped to pioneer the adaptive approach. Patient recruitment firm BBK Worldwide has announced that it is…more...

Lilly lauded specialized contract research organization i3 Global with a supplier of the year award. Said Gregg Dearhammer, president of i3 Statprobe, “We align our goals with those of our customers and foster a do-it-right-the-first-time culture to ensure reliability, on-time delivery and a proactive approach to helping our customers improve productivity and reduce cost." ClinTec, a contract…more...

There is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to patient recruitment. It doesn't have a full-fledged website yet, but the Patient Recruitment Organization announced an organizational charter that could include a variety of professional development and public communication objectives. So far, the members are mainly marketing firms. Here's a press release. Hemispherix formed a data monitoring committee. The…more...