Almac recruited an executive away from the IT division of Parexel. Todd Kole was hired as Almac's new VP of clinical project services and a member of the executive leadership team. Kole previously ran the 175-person randomization effort at ClinPhone, which was acquired by Parexel. Said Jim Murphy, president of Almac’s…more...

Copernicus Group, an institutional review board (IRB) in Durham, North Carolina, has been named to the 2011 Green 15 by InfoWorld magazine, an IT publication. The IRB has a paperless solution to manage documents in clinical trials. The other winners this year include major global brands like FedEx, Aetna and Fujitsu.…more...

Public Citizen, a pro-public lobbying group, has a track record of identifying drug safety issues years before they reach the boiling point at regulatory agencies. The group has just reissued a 1998 call for a ban of gloves with cornstarch powder or latex rubber, citing allergies that can affect patients and…more...

With funding from the Gates Foundation, the Aeras nonprofit consortium selected the electronic data capture (EDC) system of Cmed for a tuberculosis project. Cmed, a Horsham, U.K. contract research and technology firm, designed its system to work well in developing regions. Said David Connelly, Cmed's CEO: “Our Timaeus on-demand eclinical platform…more...

BioClinica inked seven new deals for its randomization and drug supply software during the first part of the year. The customers were not identified. But the company says that its system is so easy to configure that its salesmen, not programming geeks, can set up most of what customers need before…more...

Millennium Pharmaceuticals picked BioClinica's software for simulating and managing drug supplies in clinical trials. The technology vendor seems poised to own this small but central niche in clinical trial tools. “As we now want to improve and standardize our clinical supply forecasting and management across multiple trials with greater control than…more...

A Wall Street financial news site says Kendle has put itself up for sale. Kendle is not commenting on the accuracy of that report. The news item is abbreviated and seems to lean on the research of industry analyst Michael Martorelli at Fairmount Partners, who ClinPage interviewed a few months ago.…more...

BioClinica is touting its clinical trial management system (CTMS), which works seamlessly within the Microsoft Sharepoint environment. "Clients are choosing BioClinica because they require a superior solution that helps them to enhance and streamline their clinical processes,” said Peter Benton, president of BioClinica's eclinical solutions group. Here's a release. Statistical analysis…more...

PPD nominated three new people to its board of directors. All are VIPs with unusually serious curriculum vitae for a job that traditionally involves four short appearances per year. Vaughn Bryson was the CEO of Lilly in the 1990s. Robert Ingram is an investment lawyer and former GSK CEO. Physician Ralph…more...

JNJ is the subject of an unusually severe consent decree banning three of the firm's McNeil locations in Puerto Rico and Pennsylvania from manufacturing or distributing anything until quality issues are resolved. An independent organization will have to certify the company is back on track. Two company executives were named in…more...