Latest Business and People News
Updated employee announcements, business news, awards, and recognition in the industry today.
People News
Synteract, a full-service CRO, has added two new members, Lisa Dilworth as Vice President, Rare and Orphan Diseases, and Elisabeth Schrader as Executive Director, Program Strategy, Pediatrics and Rare Diseases, to its Rare and Orphan Diseases Center of Development.
Elligo Health Research, an integrated research organization, has added Dan Pucci, MBA, as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships, and Michael A. Ibara, Pharm.D., as Vice President of Data Sciences, to its executive leadership team.
Richard Davies
Suzanne Lukac
CluePoints, a provider of RBM and data quality oversight solutions for clinical trials, has announced the appointment of Richard Davies as VP, Solutions Expert, and Suzanne Lukac as Senior Account Director to its senior team.
The International Biomedical Research Alliance, a non-profit organization that provides programming and funding support for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program, announced that Ralph A. Korpman, MD, is joining the Alliance’s Board of Directors.
Kristen Scannell
The Patient Experience Project (PEP), an EVERSANA™ agency, has announced the addition of Kristen Scannell as a Patient Experience Coordinator.
Data Cubed, a healthcare technology company, hired David Kiger, as Chief Commercial Officer to expand gamification, human, and virtual clinical trial solutions.
Business News
MMS, a global data-focused CRO, announced a volunteer initiative to pledge more than $250,000 in employee hours to local volunteer initiatives. The program allows colleagues to choose which organizations they want to support.
Medidata announced that more than 15,000 studies have been conducted on the Medidata Cloud, its platform for life sciences.
This year at CDISC Interchanges, where attendees are the first to hear about a number of new initiatives for CDISC, the standards organization updated its audience on its strategic plan priorities and revealed the new look, messaging, website, and multimedia tools of CDISC’s new brand.
Recognition
MMS Holdings Inc., a data-focused CRO, announced their support to Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for the new drug application approval and successful marketing authorization application filing of NUZYRA™ for the treatment of adults with community-acquired bacterial pneumonia and acute skin and skin structure infections.
Gartner Inc., a research and advisory company, named Data Cubed as one of the “Cool Companies” in Data-Driven Health Platforms.
Including Women of Childbearing Age in Clinical Research
March 26th 2024In recognition of International Women's Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and Marie Teil, Global Head of UCB’s Women of Childbearing Age Program. They speak about the specific challenges women with chronic illnesses face when accessing appropriate treatment and participating in clinical trials, UCB's Women of Childbearing Age Program and it’s most successful strategies, and much more.
Using Patient Reported Outcomes in Dermatology Trials
April 25th 2024In part 3 of this video interview with ACT editor Andy Studna, Melissa Mooney, director, eCOA sales engineering, IQVIA sheds light on the unique challenges of dermatology trials and how clinical outcome assessments can be implemented in them.
Improving Engagement While Maintaining Data Integrity & Validity
March 19th 2024In recognition of Women's Health Month, we're featuring this recent talk between Associate Editor Miranda Schmalfuhs and uMotif's Chief Product Officer, Julia Lakeland, discuss new technologies improving patient engagement and reducing the emotional and logistical burdens of participation, ethical considerations that should be addressed when implementing those technologies, while ensuring patient privacy, and much more.
