A Biotech Base
March 26, 2010
Last month, BBK Worldwide, a technology-savvy patient recruitment firm, opened a new office in Los Angeles to complement headquarters in Boston and satellite locations in London, Prague and Osaka. Biotechnology companies of all sizes, in Los Angeles and San Diego, were the draw for the new location.
But for Bonnie Brescia, a founding principal of the company,…more...
PI Investors
March 19, 2010
As a large commercial site, how do you get all your investigators to truly support what you're doing? By inviting them to actually buy in.
That's what Jacksonville Center for Clinical Research did in 1997 when it spun off from a cardiology practice. “Doctors were given the choice of continuing to just be principal investigators or buying…more...
New Perspective
February 23, 2010
If the International Alliance of Patients Organizations (IAPO) gets its way, patients will soon sit at the table with scientists to offer input into the design of study protocols. Not in a forceful or adversarial way, says Jeremiah Mwangi, IAPO's senior policy officer, but in a way that benefits everyone.
Picture, for example, a pediatric epilepsy trial…more...
KMR Data Offering
September 16, 2009
If one wants to launch a study on a treatment for Type 2 diabetes, and one desires to know how long it will take to enroll patients in, say, Brazil vs. India, the avenues for obtaining that information have been limited. Not anymore.
The consulting, benchmarking and analytics firm KMR Group has launched a service called SiteView that…more...
Room For Improvement
India’s Clinical Infrastructure
Growth is outstripping electrical, medical and staffing capacity in this hot market for clinical trials. That imposes extra costs.
Bigger Pictures
3 WorldCare Hires
Acusphere’s loss is WorldCare’s gain, as three new executives sign on.
Deep Listening
Patient Recruitment Poetics
BBK Worldwide discusses how to find patients for the most problematic trials.
Crowdsourcing Drug Safety
iGuard Turns One
iGuard expected to draw 60,000 members in a year. Instead, it attracted 750,000. The coming shift in strategy—and genomics.
An Army Of Nurses
CRN: Recruitment Specialists
Things are still going well at CRN, which relies on a network of nurses that can visit patients at home.
'In The Boat' With Acurian
Data-Driven Patient Recruitment
The patient-recruitment firm talks about using the right data and spending what is necessary.
Database Finds 150K Patients
In Silico Studies By i3 Innovus
The health outcomes division of the i3 brand discusses trials that are professionally designed and run on the computer.
