The CRO reported that profit for the recent quarter rose 80 percent. Revenues were $220 million, a 20 percent rise. As if that were not enough, Parexel’s contract backlog now stands at $1.3 billion, a 50 percent rise. Breaking out the quarterly revenue, the company said: “On a segment basis,…more...
Novaquest, the venture capital arm of Quintiles, made 16 investments in 2006, double the number of the previous year. Quintiles’ financial help lead to more than $340 million in additional investments for the targeted firms. Overall, since inception to date, the Quintiles arm says it has shepherded more than $1.6…more...
Kendle International won an award from Pfizer. It’s not clear from the news release whether Pfizer gave similar awards to any other suppliers. The contract research organization (CRO) announced it had received the 2006 Pfizer Development Operations Strategic Supplier Excellence Award. In a news release, Kendle noted that it provides…more...
Kendle International has opened a new office in Uppsala, Sweden, where the university is the nation’s oldest and dates to the year 1477. The news is not on Kendle’s website, but was briefly covered in a Cinncinati newspaper. The Business Courier said, in part: “‘Sweden’s efficient approval process, high-quality data…more...
Consultants Ness Technologies won a new IT contract with Quintiles Transnational, the world’s largest contract research organization (CRO). The news release does not quite say what services Ness will be providing for Quintiles, except for “data integration.” But it’s clear Quintiles is placing significant trust and resources at Ness’s disposal.…more...
The federal Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research (AHRQ) has awarded contract research organization (CRO) Thomson Medstat a 3-year, $15 million assignment. The AHRQ is part of the Department of Health and Human Services. Thomson Medstat is the new name for Systemetrics, a firm that specializes in decision support research.…more...
The scientific quest to develop a substitute for human blood is a decades-long saga. It periodically fascinates the news media. Several companies are working in the area. Late last month, one of them, Northfield Laboratories, blamed a setback in a clinical trial not on its blood substitute but on errors…more...
Encorium, a contract research organization (CRO) based in the U.S. and Finland, announced a $12.4 million Phase III prostate cancer study. That amount is four times larger than the revenues the company announced in its most recent financial statement. The company’s statement, in part, said: “Encorium will provide project and…more...
The president and CEO of PRA International, Pat Donnelly, has left the company abruptly. Over 13 years at the firm, he guided the company through its IPO and a corporate reorganization, growing annual revenues to $300 million. Donnelly will leave the CRO at the end of 2006. He’ll remain a…more...
After starting out at Wyeth and Hoffmann-La Roche, Kevin Keim has spent 30 years in the industry. He’s assisted or run 400 trials. Most recently, Keim joined INC Research, a mid-sized contract research organization (CRO). He’s a pharmacologist who previously served (among other things) as the CEO of Vela Pharmaceuticals…more...
January 8, 2009
Clinilabs spent a year collaborating with AMPS on a better way to collect and manage ECGs.
Mark Goldberg, an architect of technology at a major CRO, discusses the purchase of ClinPhone. An exclusive.
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.
According to research firm Frost & Sullivan, the global outsourcing market is poised to get far larger, and fast.
Target Health has had good news this year, as the company’s Jules Mitchel relates of his EDC and document management systems.
The staffing company/CRO combo Trio Clinical Research takes on two equity partners and a C-level acquisition strategist from PRA International.
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