R&D Trends

CRO industry grew 16% in 2010

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 01:51 PM

Sales growth in the contract research industry accelerated approximately 16% in 2010, generating a worldwide market worth $27 billion, according to a new report from Biopharm Knowledge Publishing.

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PACeR collaborates to standardize use of EMRs to improve trial quality, reduce costs

Monday, June 27, 2011 08:00 AM

A partnership of academic medical centers, pharmaceutical companies, information technology firms and other stakeholders has begun an initiative to establish an electronic clinical research network in New York, which could eventually be extended across the country. The network would use data from electronic medical records (EMRs) to increase the speed and quality of clinical studies while at the same time reducing costs.

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Pfizer’s ‘virtual’ clinical trial could have far-reaching implications for future research productivity

Monday, June 20, 2011 08:00 AM

As Pfizer begins enrolling the first-ever FDA-approved “virtual” clinical trial, which allows patients to participate from home using smartphones and computers instead of visiting a clinic, industry executives believe the study has far-reaching implications for improving the productivity of clinical trials in the future.

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New nonprofit to seek consensus on social media

Friday, June 17, 2011 02:40 PM

Frustrated by FDA inaction on guidance for digital marketing and social media, a host of industry players are banding together to form a nonprofit that can hammer out consensus on a way forward, according to Medical Marketing & Media.

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Sanofi collaborates with Audion Therapeutics

Friday, June 17, 2011 02:25 PM

Paris-based Sanofi has entered into a two-year research collaboration with biopharmaceutical company Audion Therapeutics to develop potential treatments for hearing loss through the optimization of small molecules by using a regenerative medicine approach.

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OpenClinica to power major European trials

Friday, June 17, 2011 02:21 PM

OpenClinica, a Waltham, Mass.-based maker of open source clinical trials software for web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM), has contracted with the SAFE-T Consortium in Europe.

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Research institute acquires Immune Tolerance Institute

Monday, June 13, 2011 09:45 AM

The David H. Murdock Research Institute (DHMRI) has acquired the Immune Tolerance Institute (ITI) as part of the North Carolina-based Institute’s mission to accelerate the discovery and development of breakthrough treatments for a range of immune-related diseases.

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Strategic partnerships: a good deal for CROs, or just a cost-cutting measure by big pharma?

Monday, June 13, 2011 08:01 AM

Strategic partnerships with the top 20 pharma companies are what most sizable CROs dream of these days.

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Foundation launches research registry for Peripheral Neuropathy

Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:52 PM

What starts as burning, numbness, pain and/or tingling in the feet or hands in some can turn into a debilitating condition. Peripheral Neuropathy (PN), one of the largest and most common neurodegenerative disorders, affects more than 20 million Americans of all races and ethnic backgrounds.

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Boston's Top AMCs Join Pfizer's Centers For Therapeutic Innovation

Thursday, June 9, 2011 12:42 PM

Pfizer’s network of translational research partnerships, called the Centers for Therapeutic Innovation, has launched in Boston with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard University, Partners HealthCare, Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University and the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.

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