Seven-year-old GleneaglesCRC is garnering a lot of firsts lately. Last fall, the Singapore-based firm became the first contract research organization (CRO) to open an office in western Australia expressly for the purpose of marketing to U.S. and European drug companies that need to recruit lots of Caucasians. Also last year, it became the first CRO to open a data-management center in the Philippines. Last summer, it was one of the first CROs to set up operations in Indonesia. GleneaglesCRC won Frost & Sullivan’s Asia Pacific Healthcare best practice award, as well as being named its clinical research outsourcing industry Asian CRO of the year (Singapore) for 2006. And, with the purchase of Phase Forward’s Clintrial software late last year for use in the Philippines as well as Singapore and China, the company has positioned itself as one of the most technologically advanced CROs in Asia. Indeed, it’s been quite a year…more...