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inVentiv expands services to Korea

Thursday, November 10, 2011 09:28 AM

inVentiv Health has established inVentiv Health Korea, a Seoul-based operation that will provide clinical development and commercial services to healthcare clients.

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CRO top executives in a game of ‘musical chairs’

Monday, November 7, 2011 08:02 AM

Five months after INC Research’s acquisition of Kendle International closed, executives from the now-combined CRO are landing jobs with competitors.  

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Theorem names VP, global business development

Thursday, October 27, 2011 12:22 PM

Theorem Clinical Research, previously Omnicare Clinical Research, has named Adam Serody vice president, global business development. In his new role, Serody will lead Theorem’s global sales, proposals and marketing organizations.

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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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PPD names CEO, puts acquisition rumors in question

Monday, September 26, 2011 08:02 AM

PPD has named a new CEO, a move that strikes some in the industry as a little strange in the face of rumors that the publicly traded CRO is close to selling itself to a private equity firm.

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PharmaNet, McGill to develop Canadian translational research facility

Thursday, September 15, 2011 10:52 AM

PharmaNet Development Group, the US-based clinical development services provider acquired by inVentiv Health, has teamed up with a Canadian research institute to set up what the company says will be the country’s first in-hospital translational medicine unit for phase I-IIa clinical trials, according to PharmaTimes.

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Icon and Bristol-Myers Squibb build on strategic partnership, extending it to early-phase work

Monday, September 5, 2011 08:00 AM

Icon and Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) have inked a preferred-provider agreement for early-phase development. This constitutes the CRO’s second sizable agreement with BMS; in June 2010, the two formed a strategic partnership, with Icon focused on providing global support for the drug developer’s clinical development pipeline.

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Cetero says FDA’s actions ‘difficult to understand’—company notified agency of chemists’ misconduct

Monday, August 1, 2011 08:02 AM

Large, early-phase CRO Cetero Research seemed blindsided by the FDA’s letter to the company last week accusing it of falsifying data and manipulating samples over a five-year period at its Houston bioanalytics lab.

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PharmaNet names VP of bioanalytical services

Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:52 AM

PharmaNet Development Group has named George Scott, Ph.D., vice president, bioanalytical services.

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PPD shares rise on takeover rumors

Monday, July 18, 2011 01:51 PM

Shares of CRO Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) rose 16% to levels not touched in more than two-and-a-half years on Monday, a day after a Wall Street Journal report said the company was looking to sell itself, reported Reuters.

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