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The ACRES' Accountable Research Blog is being piloted in the San Antonio, Texas market, and is projected to be extended to other Hearst media markets, both domestically and internationally.

There is nothing more disappointing for a pharmaceutical company than to place its bets on a specific molecule/compound in its pipeline and invest billions of dollars in development, only to have the drug fail in late phase trials.

The SCRS Site Scholarship Program awards membership to qualifying sites striving for excellence in clinical research who are not current or previous SCRS members.

Every trial starts with a budget, and a clinical trial study start-up process that can be fraught with delays. From contract negotiations, to managing a trial for a sponsor, to streamlining study start-up process, this eBook seeks to instruct others on best practices.

Providing Customized Full-Service Clinical Trial Operations

PHT announced it has selected the Hewlett Packard (HP) ElitePad 1000 G2 with Windows 8.1 for its SitePad® System.

ICON has announced Firecrest eConsent, an electronic informed consent solution that incorporates recommendations from the FDA¹s recent draft guidance on informed consent.

Operational metrics from the initial clinical trials that have been deployed using TrialTracker™ have met or exceeded all expectations for performance.

The first malaria vaccine candidate (RTS,S/AS01) to reach Phase 3 trials is partially effective against clinical disease in young African children up to four years after vaccination, according to final trial data published in The Lancet, which will now be evaluated by the European Medicines Agency (EMA).

INC Research announced a strategic collaboration with DrugDev to complete integration with and implementation of DrugDev’s SiteCloud platform.

Combined solution can help identify trial risks in operational and clinical data before traditional methods.

Certara®, a global biosimulation technology-enabled drug development consultancy, and CISCRP, an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and informing the public and patients about clinical research, announced that they are partnering to produce high-quality lay summaries of clinical trials.

Accenture has expanded its Accenture Life Sciences Cloud for Research and Development (R&D) powered by Oracle with the addition of enhanced clinical data management capabilities.

Since its inception in early 2014, the SAG initiative has exercised considerable impact on the clinical research landscape by inciting important dialogue between site professionals and industry leaders related to current and evolving practices.

The ACTA was initiated in 2012 by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards program in collaboration with representatives from several pharmaceutical companies to facilitate negotiations between institutional research sites and industry sponsors.

PPD has opened a central laboratory in Shanghai, China, to meet growing scientific and technical laboratory client demand for these services in China.