Lisa Henderson is Editor-in-Chief of Applied Clinical Trials and Pharm Exec. She can be reached at lhenderson@mmhgroup.com.
DrugDev Acquires TrialNetworks
May 5th 2014DrugDev announced it has acquired TrialNetworks, which offers a unified suite of integrated study management apps and site-facing tools called the Clinical Trial Optimization System. And not unlike its first acquisition of CFS Clinical in October 2013, the acquisition has elements of innovation, scale, and overall industry improvement as its impetus.
ACRP Announces TransCelerate's Intentions to Accept its Certification
January 14th 2014Clinical research professionals who have a current CPI or CCRC designation will be able to use that as evidence that retaking GCP training is not necessary if they are working on a trial for one of the TransCelerate companies.
Crowdsourcing to Optimize Trial Design in Metformin for Prostate Cancer Study
November 22nd 2013Transparency Life Sciences, LLC, and Dr. Matthew Galsky, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, have collaborated to design and conduct a pilot trial assessing metformin as a potential treatment for prostate cancer.
Analytics Tool for Intelligent Clinical Trials
November 5th 2013If you are in clinical research, you may read a headline such as "Thomson Reuters Previews Game-Changing New Solutions for Insights into Clinical Trials" with passing curiosity... along the lines of "what do they have to do with clinical trials?"
FDA Updates Current Thinking on Risk-Based Monitoring
August 7th 2013I'm spending some time going through the Draft Guidance for Industry Oversight--A Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring, August 2011 vs. the Guidance for Industry--Oversight of Clinical Investigations--A Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring, August 2013,