Profiling PPD & Mmatiss
December 22, 2008
Brazil’s contract research organization (CRO) market is said to be fragmented, made up of a handful of large global companies (think Quintiles, Parexel, Kendle), another handful of medium-sized CROs also not based there (i3, Icon), and then a profusion of smaller local firms. To provide a sense of both ends of the spectrum, we spoke with PPD,…more...
IRBs Are Next
December 15, 2008
Brazil is one of only two Latin American countries (besides Argentina) to have its own contract research organization (CRO) association, and one of only a handful of countries on Earth to do so. That alone speaks volumes about the maturity and size of its clinical research market.
Launched in 2006, the Brazilian association is called Associação Brasileira…more...
Faster Launches
December 08, 2008
Given the attractions of Brazil, delineated in a previous article, why have large sponsors and contract research organizations (CROs) hesitated to launch projects there?
Dennis Hurley, Kendle‘s president of global clinical development for Latin America, says the regulatory environment is the reason. “Brazil has set up such a complicated regulatory system that it took, usually, between 10…more...
A Quickening Process
December 01, 2008
The regulatory process in Brazil, previously seen as complicated and convoluted, just got simpler and more logical. The country has been a familiar destination for sponsors for at least a dozen years. It ranks up there with China, India and Russia. But Brazil’s regulatory structure has been slow, rigid, and some would say illogical by comparison.
In…more...
New Cardio Capability
November 12, 2008
Icon Clinical may have just leapt in front of its competitors in cardiology trials. The imaging arm of the Dublin, Ireland-based contract research organization (CRO) just developed software for uploading and analyzing coronary angiography images, then exporting the measurements directly into a case report form that is 21 CFR Part 11-compliant.
Electronic Calipers
Thus far, no such…more...
Crowdsourcing Drug Safety
October 15, 2008
Hugo Stephenson is floored by the growth of iGuard, the consumer-oriented online medical monitoring service he started last year with financial support from Quintiles.
iGuard turns one this month. When it was launched, Stephenson expected to have perhaps 60,000 people signed at this stage. Instead, iGuard now has 750,000 members, and that is expected to surge to…more...
Speaking of Service ...
September 10, 2008
It’s a phone call we’ve come to expect. It may come from a pharmaceutical, biotechnology or medical device company. A sponsor rings up and says: “When we chose a contract research organization (CRO) to monitor our trial, we thought we were getting more experience. But what we ended up getting was quite the opposite. The trial is…more...
ECG Management
August 26, 2008
Clinilabs, a small Manhattan-based contract research organization (CRO), may have just positioned itself to effectively compete with more established or hulking competitors.
Frustrated with the available software for processing electrocardiogram (ECG) data, Clinilabs connected with the tech company Analyzing Medical Parameters for Solutions (AMPS), also based in Manhattan, to come up with something that not only collects…more...
January 8, 2009
ECG Management
Clinilabs spent a year collaborating with AMPS on a better way to collect and manage ECGs.
Tech, Service Converge
Mark Goldberg, an architect of technology at a major CRO, discusses the purchase of ClinPhone. An exclusive.
ACRO Joins Effort
The three year old Metrics Champion Consortium, which helped established performance metrics for central labs and ECG, is now turning its focus to imaging and CROs.
Frost & Sullivan Webinar
According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, the global outsourcing market is poised to get far larger, and fast.
Tech, Service CRO
Target Health has had good news this year, as the company’s Jules Mitchel relates of his EDC and document management systems.
CRO Seeks Tech
The staffing company/CRO combo Trio Clinical Research takes on two equity partners and a C-level acquisition strategist from PRA International.
