Prioritizing Agility When Choosing a Contract Research Organization Publication date: September 2023 / Download PDFAuthor: Josée Comeau Introduction Throughout the years, the field of clinical research has continued to grow in complexity and has encountered numerous challenges, and although processes have been well established, many of us have settled into a daily routine that maintains the status quo. It’s time for us to move away from traditional practices and introduce a concept that some...

Criteria for Choosing a Great Contract Research Organization (CRO) Publication date: February 2024 / Download PDF Author: Viken Bartekian Introduction Outsourcing is often a necessity within the health care industry. Many pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device companies rely on outsourcing to Contract Research Organizations (CROs) as part of their strategy to advance to the next stage of clinical trials. As a matter of perspective, the CRO market size is expected to grow by USD 63.35 b...

Prioritizing Agility When Choosing a Contract Research Organization Publication date: September 2023 / Download PDF Author: Josée Comeau Introduction Throughout the years, the field of clinical research has continued to grow in complexity and has encountered numerous challenges, and although processes have been well established, many of us have settled into a daily routine that maintains the status quo. It’s time for us to move away from traditional practices and introduce a concept that some...

Perfectly on Time: Successfully Managing Clinical Trial Deliverables Publication date: November 2022 / Download PDF Authors: Vatche Bartekian, Johanna Garcia, Sheila Ernest Introduction A key skill for clinical Project Managers (PM) within the life sciences industry is time management. As a PM, you are not only responsible for the project deliverables, but for every person involved as well as every task performed. Yes, it is a team effort however, in the end, the PM is the one responsible for d...

Planning a Positive Outcome for Your Clinical Trial Publication date: September 2022 / Download PDF Author: Vatche Bartekian Co-Authors: Johanna Garcia, Kaiser Lagman, Marina Ohouo, Sheila Ernest Introduction The drug development process presents many complex steps and requires a keen set of skills, knowledge, and resources to arrive successfully at subsequent stages . Within the various phases of drug development, clinical trials, in particular, require robust, coordinated processes and systems...

CRO SELECTION: How to Find & Select the Right Partner for your Clinical Trial Publication date: January 2021 / Download PDF Author: Marc Assaad Introduction As innovation, research and science are exponentially growing in all directions within the healthcare industry, it is only normal that the outsourcing of Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) is also rapidly growing, resulting in a spike in the numbers of such organizations available to the market. The task of finding and filtering thro...

Study Rescue | How to get your Clinical Trial Back on Track Publication date: August 2018 / Download PDF Author: Han Hsieh / Herby Delone Introduction It will probably come as no surprise for anyone to learn that most clinical trials do not proceed as planned since more than 90% of them fail to meet their original timeline.1 The reason a study falls behind schedule or even fails entirely may involve issues involving the site start-up process, patient enrollment/retention barriers, protocol comp...

How to Support & Develop Research – Naïve Clinical Sites | An Investment for the Future of Clinical Trials Publication date: January 2018 / Download PDF Author: Robert Le Introduction Finding highly experienced and strong performing sites for a clinical trial is one of the most important steps in the drug development process, but always remains a challenging task for Sponsors and CROs. The turnover rate of Principle Investigators (PIs) in clinical research is high and keeps rising. A...

Analysis of Highlights from Health Canada’s GCP Inspection Results in 2016 Publication date: June 2017 / Download as PDF Author: Irina Mosesova Introduction At Vantage BioTrials (VBT) we pride ourselves at continuously learning and keeping up to date with the latest developments in clinical research and compliance issues that can potentially effect trial results or even patient safety. The industry is changing at an incredible rate and in an effort to continue being one of the best service...

A Synthesis of Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials Publication date: May 2016 / Download PDF Author: Roy Nitulescu, Agnihotram V Ramanakumar, and Vatché Bartekian Abstract Since 2006, when the adaptive design working group presented their work in Washington D.C., the literature on adaptive designs has greatly expanded. Some designs have emerged as inherently better suited to exploratory-phase trials, while others are more appropriate for confirmatory phases of drug development. This article pro...