PRA

PRA participates in landmark Alzheimer’s prevention trial

Thursday, July 26, 2012 09:52 AM

PRA, a global CRO, is participating in an Alzheimer’s disease study that could lead to treatments delaying or even preventing the emergence of symptoms in people destined to develop the disease because of their genetic background.

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PRA expands operations in the Netherlands and U.K.

Monday, May 21, 2012 03:48 PM

PRA, a global CRO, is expanding its operations in the Netherlands and the U.K. to accommodate staff growth and strong client demand for its phase IIa-IIIb service offerings.

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PRA, Amgen collaborate on biosimilar development program

Wednesday, May 2, 2012 09:18 AM

PRA, a global CRO, has formed a strategic relationship with biotech Amgen for a series of phase III studies to develop several biosimilar drugs on a worldwide basis.

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Susan Stansfield named executive VP, clinical development at Premier Research

Friday, January 13, 2012 12:03 PM

Premier Research Group has named Susan C. Stansfield, Ph.D., its new executive vice president of clinical development.

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UCB inks strategic partnerships with Parexel, PRA

Monday, November 28, 2011 08:00 AM

The sponsor-CRO strategic partnerships just keep coming. 

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UCB enters strategic partnerships with Parexel and PRA

Thursday, November 17, 2011 10:33 AM

Brussels, Belgium-based UCB has entered into strategic partnerships with Parexel and PRA to drive UCB’s operational clinical development activities. The agreements are effective for all of UCB’s new clinical study programs on a global basis.

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Theorem names VP, EMEA

Wednesday, November 16, 2011 02:19 PM

Theorem Clinical Research, previously Omnicare Clinical Research, has named Christian Tucat vice president & general manager, Europe Middle East & Africa. In this role, Tucat will have direct accountability for sales and the P&L of Theorem’s business in these regions.

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Survey: Top CROs doubled workforce over past decade

Monday, October 24, 2011 08:02 AM

Over the last 10 years, the top nine global CROs have more than doubled their workforce, which now exceeds 72,000 employees, and their revenues have increased at a compound annualized rate of 11% as they increasingly play a larger and more integral role in the drug development infrastructure, according to a new Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO) member survey.

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PRA expands with office in Romania

Tuesday, August 23, 2011 10:47 AM

PRA, a clinical research organization, recently opened an office in Bucharest, Romania to further strengthen its coverage of the Balkan region’s burgeoning markets. The Bucharest office will also support projects in the neighboring Republic of Moldova.

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PPD rumored to be in exclusive acquisition talks with D.C.-based private equity firm the Carlyle Group

Monday, August 22, 2011 08:02 AM

While many in the upper echelon of private equity investors have been courting CRO PPD, for now all but one have been shooed away: Washington, D.C.-based Carlyle Group.

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