Global News

Cliantha Research selects Acceliant for trial data management

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 10:29 AM

Acceliant, a global technology provider of clinical trial data management solutions, has been chosen by Cliantha Research, a global CRO, to provide its eClinical Suite for Cliantha’s clinical trial data management needs. Acceliant's integrated e-PRO system offers a superior solution by allowing all the study data to be readily available, eliminating the integration costs.

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AG Mednet launches cloud storage with on-demand access to clinical trial data

Wednesday, February 27, 2013 09:32 AM

To support the need for storage and streamlined access to data during and after a clinical trial, AG Mednet, quality compliance partner for image data submission and collection, has launched AG Mednet Storage—a Part 11 compliant repository with on-demand access to clinical trial image data. 

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LEO Pharma, 4SC Discovery ink exclusive research agreement

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 01:48 PM

LEO Pharma, a global pharmaceutical company specializing in dermatology, has entered into an exclusive research and license agreement with the German biotech company 4SC Discovery with the primary aim of jointly researching, developing and commercializing an oral treatment for inflammatory skin diseases such as psoriasis.

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Bayer's Stivarga receives FDA approval for GIST

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 12:27 PM

The FDA has approved Bayer's Stivarga (regorafenib) tablets to treat patients with locally advanced, unresectable or metastatic gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) who have been previously treated with imatinib mesylate and sunitinib malate.

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CDRD Ventures inks new partnership with Pfizer

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:29 AM

Pfizer and CDRD Ventures (CVI), the commercialization vehicle of the Center for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), have formed a strategic collaboration designed to provide new resources to advance Canada’s most innovative and therapeutically promising health technologies towards commercialization.

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WCCT Global launches special population recruitment tool

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 11:01 AM

WCCT Global, a CRO supporting phase I-IV biopharmaceutical and medical device development, has rolled out their special population Recruitment Management Tool (RMT) for early and late phase clinical studies.

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OECD urges countries to harmonize clinical trial regulations to boost research, save lives

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:33 AM

Increasingly complex and inconsistent clinical trial regulations are causing delays, raising costs and leading to a decline in the number of international trials conducted by academics for non-commerical purposes. In the E.U. alone, the number of applications for clinical trials fell by 25% between 2007 and 2011.

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Cenduit expands in Europe and U.S.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:04 AM

Cenduit, a global provider of patient randomization and clinical supplies management services, has announced the expansion of its Durham, N.C., headquarters and its office in Basel, Switzerland. The expansion adds substantial space to the company’s headquarters and triples the size of its office in Basel.

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Xceleron, Kinetigen partner to simplify phase I investigations

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 09:06 AM

Xceleron, a provider of bioanalytical AMS services for accelerated early drug development, has formed a partnership with Kinetigen, a clinical pharmacology consulting firm specializing in pharmacokinetics. The partnership will offer drug developers simpler and more robust early clinical investigations.

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RWJF awards $1.9M grant to PatientsLikeMe

Monday, February 25, 2013 11:26 AM

PatientsLikeMe, a patient network that improves lives and a real-time research platform that advances medicine, has been awarded a $1.9 million grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to create the world's first open-participation research platform for the development of patient-centered health outcome measures.

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