Study Conduct

Eagle Awards honor GSK, Medpace, Quorum IRB

Friday, October 21, 2011 11:14 AM

Sponsor GlaxoSmithKline, CRO Medpace and IRB Quorum Review all took home the coveted Eagle Award last Saturday, honored by investigative sites at the sixth annual Site Solutions Summit.

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Cytonet’s SELICA III trial expands to Canada

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 10:58 AM

Canadian health authority, Health Canada, recently granted Cytonet approval to extend the SELICA III trial, which has been open in the United States since 2010, into Canada.

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Almac, Greenphire collaborate in direct patient payment services

Thursday, October 6, 2011 11:39 AM

The Almac Group and Greenphire have reported that Almac’s Clinical Technologies business unit, the provider of IXRS (Interactive Voice and Web Response) services relating to patient and drug supply management, has formed an exclusive alliance with Greenphire to offer joint services relating to patient payment administration for clinical trials. This new service improves current methods of manual patient payment management and alleviates administrative burden on personnel in biopharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations, allowing them to focus on more study-specific responsibilities.

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UK’s DNR to build clinical trials database for diabetes

Wednesday, September 28, 2011 12:31 PM

A new campaign launched by the UK’s Diabetes Research Network (DRN) aims to recruit up to 25,000 diabetes patients over an 18-month period to a ‘consent for approach’ database that should help to accelerate set-up times for clinical trials in the field, according to PharmaTimes.

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FDA puts Immunomedics’ pancreatic cancer trial on hold

Friday, September 23, 2011 02:19 PM

Immunomedics, a biopharmaceutical company primarily focused on the development of monoclonal antibody-based products for the targeted treatment of cancer, autoimmune and other serious diseases, been notified by the FDA that a partial clinical hold has been placed on the company’s phase Ib/II clinical trial of clivatuzumab tetraxetan in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, due to the administration of an incorrect dose to a patient enrolled at one of its trial sites.

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Cardio3 establishes US subsidiary

Friday, September 23, 2011 10:35 AM

Belgian cardiac cell therapies firm Cardio3 BioSciences established a U.S. subsidiary in Rochester, MN, to support its clinical and development activities and to bolster existing links with the Mayo Clinic and other U.S. collaborators, according to GEN News. Cardio3’s lead product, C3BS-CQR-1 is a stem cell-based cardiac lineage in clinical development for the treatment of heart failure. Phase III studies are projected to start in 2012.

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Lilly steps up efforts to improve minority enrollment in clinical trials

Thursday, September 22, 2011 02:08 PM

Targeted trial sites, information on patient-assistance programs, on-site visits, culturally sensitive patient materials and amended protocol designs can all help to increase minority participation in clinical trials, a US study by Eli Lilly has indicated, according to PharmaTimes.

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START expands with phase I center in Shanghai

Thursday, September 22, 2011 10:45 AM

South Texas Accelerated Research Therapeutics (START), a US-based group that claims to run the world’s largest co-ordinated network of phase I clinical trials in oncology, has opened a phase I research facility in China at Fudan University Shanghai Cancer Centre, the city’s largest cancer hospital, according to PharmaTimes.

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BBK Worldwide expands with in-house distribution center

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:20 AM

In a joint effort with Ricoh Americas, BBK Worldwide has expanded its production facility to include full-service, in-house distribution services, called Distribution Central. "The motivation to provide these services through our sister creative company, Agency 320, is clear: reduce the time-to-market for critical materials that support the recruitment and retention of patients around the world," said Joan F. Bachenheimer, founding principal and CEO, BBK Worldwide.

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UK firms go to Russia to conduct cheaper clinical trials

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 11:13 AM

Britain's fastest-growing bio-technology firms are flocking to Russia to run clinical trials more cheaply and quickly than they can in the West, according to This is MONEY.

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