People and Business News
The latest business and people happenings, and COVID-19 response, from around the industry.
People News
PRISYM ID has made changes to its senior leadership team. Life sciences and technology veteran Richard Adams has joined as Chief Executive Officer, and Lauren Patterson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer.
Advarra announced the appointment of Gadi Saarony as Chief Executive Officer.
MMS Holdings Inc. announced the addition of Kelly Vaillant as Director, Global Transparency Strategy and Compliance.
Business News
SGS Clinical Pharmacology Unit
SGS is supporting ZNA Stuivenberg Hospital, Antwerp in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic by offering the use of its Clinical Pharmacology Unit, within the hospital, equipped with 88 beds. SGS has also donated Personal Protective Equipment, including 1,100 masks and 21,000 gloves.
WCG is providing access to a web resource, WCG COVID-19 Patient Insights Resource Center, dedicated to representing the voice, perspective, and needs of patients and study participants in clinical trials during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BioIVT announced the opening of its new blood donor center on the Tufts University campus in Medford, MA to support academic and pharmaceutical researchers involved in COVID-19, cell and gene therapy research.
Sharp Clinical has confirmed that it is involved in supporting six clinical trials related to COVID-19.
Syneos Health, supported by the Association of Clinical Research Organizations, has announced a volunteer program to enable clinically qualified employees to address the UK government’s call for volunteers to support COVID-19 testing.
CROMSOURCE announced that it has initiated its first COVID-19 trial on behalf of a European pharmaceutical company.
Recognition
PPD, Inc. has been named by IDG’s CIO as a 2020 CIO 100 Awards honoree.
TrialScope’s “Real Patient Stories: The Trials of Finding Clinical Trials,” has won a Silver award in the WEGO Health Patient-Choice Awards for Most Authentic Use of Patients in a Marketing Campaign.
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.
