The Faster Clinical Trials Act would create an FDA Center for Clinical Trial Innovation and aims to cut trial costs and enrollment time by at least 30%.
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People NewsCelerion has appointed Marc Hoffman, MD as Chief Medical Officer. Hoffman joins from Patient iP where he served as Chief Medical Officer, providing clinical leadership around the company’s platform, customer programs and related medical affairs activities.
PAREXEL has announced the appointment of Simon Harford as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer effective June 1, 2017. Harford will serve on PAREXEL's Business Review Committee and assist in developing and implementing company objectives.
ERT has appointed industry veteran Ellen Street as Executive Vice President, Cardiac Safety. Street brings over 20 years of product management, commercial leadership and marketing experience across multiple segments of the life sciences industry.
ERT announced that its Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Waqar Nasim, has been awarded a SmartCEO Philadelphia Executive Management Award.
Illingworth Research, a UK-based CRO offering medical photography and mobile research services, has appointed Joanne Lemura as the Research Nursing Team Manager, to be based in Australia.
RecognitionERT was recognized as a finalist for the Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies (PACT) Technology Company of the Year Award.
QuintilesIMS has been named to FORTUNE magazine’s “World’s Most Admired Companies” list for the third consecutive year.
PPD has been named to Training Magazine’s Top 125 list of businesses that excel in employee learning and development for the sixth consecutive year.
Business NewsCertara has announced that the Standards Council of Canada has awarded the Good Laboratory Practices certification to its Strategic Consulting Montreal facility.
Integrium, LLC, a full-service Clinical Proof of Concept (PoC) Firm, has announced the launch of its newly revamped website.
Clinerion has announced the expansion of its activities into countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EEMEA). This initiative is spearhead by the appointment of BariÅ ErdoÄan, PhD as Head of the EEMEA Region.
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