Tag Archives: CROs

Project Management for Biotech Companies

In today’s fast paced, high pressure world of drug development there are multiple factors that can and do affect marketing success.  Large organizations understand the value that project management can contribute to a successful project.  The smaller companies tend to … Continue reading

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Imaginary patients, Imaginary data, et Cetero, et Cetero…

The FDA recently issued a letter to a CRO based in Cary, NC, outlining serious violations at one of their facilities including “widespread falsification of dates and times in laboratory records… and the apparent manipulation of equilibration samples to meet … Continue reading

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Bridging the Valley of Death: Bringing New Drugs from the Bench to the Clinic

To bring a new medicine to the stage of clinical trial testing requires on the order of $500,000 to one million dollars and then seven to ten years of clinical trials and around $800 million dollars before getting to market.  … Continue reading

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Conference Recap – 2011 ACRP Global Conference and Exhibition

The 2011 Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Global Conference and Exhibition was held on 30 April – 03 May 2011 in Seattle, WA. The conference hosted 2,000 registrants including physicians, nurses, pharmacists, clinical research coordinators, clinical research associates, and other clinical research professionals. Continue reading

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Conference Recap – BayBio 2011

The BayBio Annual Conference 2011 was held on 20-21 April 2011 in Burlingame, CA.  The event was attended by more than 1,000 San Francisco Bay Area biotech and life sciences professionals from over 400 companies. This year’s conference focused on … Continue reading

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