Mayo Clinic has cut its study start up times by two-thirds, thanks to administrative restructuring, staff education and new technology.

This monthly feature presents a variety of questions from clinical trial professionals with answers from WCG Clinical’s expert staff. This month features two WCG pharmacovigilance experts, WCG Vigilare Vice President Angela Pittwood and Jim Bannon, president of the scientific and regulatory review division of WCG Clinical.

In preparation for a potential smallpox outbreak or bioterrorism attack, a final FDA guidance provides recommendations for testing vaccines in animals.

This feature highlights changes in clinical research organizations’ personnel.

ADC Therapeutics
ADC Therapeutics SA has named Jennifer Herron its first chief commercial officer. Herron recently served as executive vice president and CCO at Immunogen.

Twice monthly, CWWeekly provides featured listings of clinical research job openings, upcoming industry conferences and educational programs from JobWatch, CenterWatch’s online recruitment website for both clinical research employers and professionals.

Getting study teams to consider using readily available data to help design and enroll clinical trials can be more difficult than it should be.

While CROs are gung-ho on some new technologies to manage trials, they still rely heavily on paper-based systems, a new survey shows.

The NIH and FBI are continuing to root out scientists from China and other countries who are accused of stealing biomedical research from U.S. institutions.

This feature highlights changes in clinical research organizations’ personnel.

ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has named Ponni Subbiah senior vice president, global head of medical affairs and chief medical officer. Subbiah recently served as CMO at Indivior.