Alliance for Multispecialty Research launches new business model

The Alliance for Multispecialty Research (AMR), which includes some of the most experienced indepen­dent clinical research centers in the U.S., has established a new business model that fully integrates its 17-member network and better positions the organization to collaborate with sponsors and CROs in preferred provider site networks and strategic partnerships.

NIH-funded center to study how to improve multisite trials

The NIH has awarded a seven-year, $26.5 million federal grant to re­searchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) to study ways in which multisite clinical trials can be con­ducted more rapidly and efficiently. The grant to establish a joint Trial Innovation Center (TIC) is supported by NIH’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS). The TIC will be a key component of the Trial Innovation Network, which is the newest part of the NIH’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) Program.

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