Acurian

PPD acquires Acurian

Tuesday, August 27, 2013 10:20 AM

Wilmington, N.C.-based CRO Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has acquired Acurian, a provider of clinical trial patient enrollment and retention solutions for the life sciences industry. 

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Acurian’s clinical trial recruitment database hits 70 million

Monday, January 23, 2012 09:37 AM

Horsham, Penn.-based Acurian, a provider of global patient enrollment and retention solutions, has expanded its opted-in database to over 70 million people. These people have self-reported specific ailments and provided permission to be contacted exclusively by Acurian for clinical trial opportunities.

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i3, Acurian in Patient Recruitment Deal

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 08:01 AM

Pharmaceutical services company i3 has entered into an agreement with Acurian, a provider of patient recruitment and retention solutions, to provide study sponsors with a more robust solution to recruit investigators for clinical trials. 

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Acurian Uses Facebook to Promote Clinical Trial Participation

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 09:17 AM

Patient recruitment provider Acurian hopes the popularity of MySpace and Facebook will transfer to the clinical trial industry with its new social networking application, Click it Forward.

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Acurian Offers Performance-based Advertising Contracts

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 02:21 PM

Horsham, Pa.-based Acurian has expanded its patient recruitment services to include advertising-based strategies that reduce risks for their clients. Typically, according to Acurian, pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device companies that rely on patient recruitment companies to create centralized advertising campaigns to enroll patients into research studies have little or no recourse if the advertising campaign fails. Acurian’s advertising services offer sponsors performance-based contracts, with payment based on campaign success. Acurian is currently running two large centralized advertising campaigns under performance-based contracts.

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Acurian Beefs Up Data Modeling Capabilities for Patient Recruitment

Thursday, August 14, 2008 09:00 AM

Patient recruitment provider Acurian is increasing its data modeling capabilities, a move that chief information officer and vice president of operations Roger Smith says benefits not just Acurian but the entire industry.

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