Novartis Pharmaceuticals won of the overall prize for PharmaTimes Clinical Company of the Year at an awards ceremony in London on February16.

A total of 270 clinical researchers and 41 NHS research sites from 29 countries entered the competition and were filtered through a number of exercises to identify the top individuals, teams and organizations, with the overarching aim of providing development for the individuals who enter combined with organizational and industry benchmarking for the clinical research fraternity as a whole.

In addition, Mandeep Budwal of Novartis won PharmaTimes Clinical Researcher Associate of the Year.

The competition was created in 1999 to provide pharma companies, CROs and NHS research sites with an opportunity to test their professional skills in a program of competency based exercises developed through a cross-industry collaboration.