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PatientsLikeMe, BBK join forces

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 02:04 PM

PatientsLikeMe, an online health platform, and BBK Worldwide, a healthcare marketing and patient recruitment firm, have formed an alliance to jointly offer their services to pharmaceutical companies and other industry stakeholders interested in enhancing patient recruitment and retention for ongoing and upcoming clinical research studies. 

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Mass. Eye and Ear, Schepens Eye Research merging

Friday, June 10, 2011 12:17 PM

The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Schepens Eye Research Institute are combining forces to create the world's largest basic and clinical ophthalmology research enterprise, with full spectrum bench-to-bedside research that will translate more quickly into better treatment for blinding diseases and, ultimately, cures.

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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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Roche partners for translational research

Tuesday, June 7, 2011 03:24 PM

The University of Geneva (UNIGE), Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) and the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) have formed a strategic collaboration with Roche in translational medical research. The initial focus will be on basic research, bioinformatics and biomarker development in cardiology, hematology, pathology and applied human toxicology.

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Two researches charged with falsifying clinical data

Friday, June 3, 2011 01:52 PM

Two former employees of Kansas-based Lee Research Institute have been indicted for falsifying study data in a clinical trial, according to a report in the Kansas City Business Journal.

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MaRS Innovation, GlaxoSmithKline partner to accelerate translational research

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:37 PM

MaRS Innovation (MI) and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) have announced a new development fund—the GSK-MaRS Innovation Fund—to support and fast-track the commercialization of some of Canada’s most promising translational research coming from 16 leading academic health sciences centers, hospitals and universities derived from the MI membership.

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Sanofi, DNDi collaborate on new drugs for neglected tropical diseases

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:35 PM

French health care company Sanofi has announced a three-year research collaboration agreement with Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative or DNDi, an independent, nonprofit product development partnership, according to RTT News.

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NIHR Clinical Research Network studies hit record high

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 03:32 PM

The number of commercial studies adopted into the National Institute for Health Research’s Clinical Research Network (NIHR CRN) Portfolio in England during the third quarter of 2010-2011 reached 115, the highest level since the network started compiling quarterly reports in 2008, according to PharmaTimes.

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Launch of Encore site network could signal beginning of consolidation wave in site sector

Tuesday, May 31, 2011 09:40 AM

Some notable shifts are afoot in the site sector of the clinical trials industry.

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Newer sites most optimistic about the future
Investigative sites of all sizes, from part-time physician-run sites to large dedicated research centers, report a rebound in operating conditions, according to a new CenterWatch analysis, yet sites from each subgroup indicate they have concerns…

Risk-based monitoring slow to catch on with industry
It's estimated that the cost of physically sending monitors to all investigative sites at regular intervals, a model the industry itself developed and has adhered to for about a decade, eats up one-third to one-half of…

Eye On Millennium
Millennium, The Takeda Oncology Company, discovers and develops novel treatments applying world-class recombinant technology to a wide variety of oncology disease targets…

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