Rho Awarded Federal Clinical Services Contract
CRO embarks on the company’s largest-ever federal project.
Chapel Hill, NC-based CRO Rho has been awarded a new cooperative agreement to provide statistical and clinical coordinating services to the Division of Allergy, Immunology and Transplantation (DAIT), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Rho will provide these services for DAIT’s large clinical research consortia in the areas of asthma and allergic diseases, autoimmune diseases, and transplantation.
The largest federal contract in Rho’s 31-year history, the award is valued at approximately $16.5 million per year for seven years. Additionally, supplemental funds of approximately $6.8 million have been awarded for the first year. The program uses a multiple principal investigator (PI) structure, with five Rho employees serving as PIs on this project.
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