PAREXEL Opens North American Facilities in PA
PAREXEL recently opened a state-of-the-art North American Coordination Hub and Distribution Center in Pennsylvania-marking an expanded presence in the region. The facility, located in Quakertown, will provide customers around the world with clinical trial supplies and logistics services designed to reduce study start-up planning and accelerate first patient-in. The North American Coordination Hub and Distribution Center can:
- Provide-local and/or central sourcing of comparator and non-investigational medicinal products
- Coordinate investigational medicinal products manufacturing through contract manufacturing organization or sponsor-delegated partners to optimize material utilization, supply and re-supply strategies, expiration dates and costs
- Offer full-service and secondary clinical packaging for randomized, double-blind or two/three panel studies, as well as customized packaging design, custom secondary packaging and patient supply kits
- Develop, translate and distribute all the documentation for sites, investigators or patients
Unifying Industry to Better Understand GCP Guidance
May 7th 2025In this episode of the Applied Clinical Trials Podcast, David Nickerson, head of clinical quality management at EMD Serono; and Arlene Lee, director of product management, data quality & risk management solutions at Medidata, discuss the newest ICH E6(R3) GCP guidelines as well as how TransCelerate and ACRO have partnered to help stakeholders better acclimate to these guidelines.
Effect of AI/ML, Real World Evidence and Master Protocols on Trial Success
July 7th 2025How the application of artificial intelligence, broader use of real-world evidence, decentralized clinical trials, master protocols, and risk-based quality monitoring, together with strong ethical oversight and increased collaboration, are contributing to better healthcare delivery and strengthening the role of clinical research in driving global health progress.
