• Outsourcing Trends for 2012

    22 March, 2012 by Kate Hammeke

    With the goal of optimizing collaborations in the drug development industry, Nice Insight (http://niceinsight.com/) developed a quarterly survey to measure customer awareness and customer perception across 300+ contract research and manufacturers. Nice Insight's Q4 Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Outsourcing Survey generated responses from 2,619 outsourcing-facing executives from big pharma (29%), specialty pharma (17%), emerging/niche/start-up pharma (22%), biotechnology (25%), and emerging biotechnology (7%). In addition to creating a research tool that aids sponsors in the outsourcing partner selection process and enabling CROs and CMOs to understand their position within the industry, Nice Insight also garners broad industry trends from its survey data.

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  • Regulatory Submissions: Filling the Critical Gaps in EDM Systems

    11 July, 2012 Patricia Santos-Serrao, Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical Industry, MasterControl, Inc.

    It's been said that electronic document management (EDM) systems for the management of submission documents are "a dime a dozen." However not all EDM systems are created equal, at least not when it comes to the management of final submission documents. Many of us are familiar with the standard functionality that most EDM systems provides particularly in the life sciences space such as: document types, taxonomy, version control, lifecycle management, securities, PDF rendering, watermarks, and el

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  • The Rising Costs of Clinical Trials

    31 January, 2012 Patricia Santos-Serrao, Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical Industry, MasterControl

    One of the most costly areas of business for any Pharmaceutical or Biotechnology Company has always been clinical research. Now more than ever the cost of bringing a product to market is staggering and as patents on trademark products expire the hope for recovering costs of research get smaller and smaller.

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  • Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring: The Value of Data in Clinical Studies

    3 May, 2012 Patricia Santos-Serrao, Senior Product Manager, Pharmaceutical Industry, MasterControl, Inc.

    In August 2011 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a guidance entitled "Oversight of Clinical Investigations - A Risk-Based Approach to Monitoring," which highlights a new approach to clinical site monitoring different from that of years ago. In this most recent guidance, the FDA openly states that "Many sponsors have understood that FDA expects sponsors to conduct frequent on-site monitoring and 100% data verification for all trials," clarifying that this is not always the best approach or the most productive use of time.

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