Integration Maestros
Peg Regan Of PharmaPros
Wrestling with the surge in disparate types of systems in the clinical trial arena, PharmaPros combines services and software.
One man's middle of nowhere is another man's perfectly situated. That's the way Paul Bishop and Lyle Camblos see Staunton, the small Virginia town that's home to their contract research organization (CRO), Atlantic Research Group (ARG). “It's equidistant from Rockville and RTP,” says Camblos, speaking of the myriad biotech companies along the I-270 corridor in Rockville, Md., and the many life sciences firms doing business in Research Triangle Park, N.C. Each of those research hubs is about a two-and-a-half-hour drive away. Both Bishop and Camblos—Atlantic's co-founders and its two managing partners—are natives of Charlottesville, home of the University of Virginia, under an hour away. Trials, Tribulations ARG (tag line: “Trials without Tribulations”) was born in 2005, after both men quit their jobs at PRA International (Bishop was in functional management; Camblos in project management) and then let their non-compete agreements expire. Their time in the industry (Bishop at PPD, ;…more...
