YourEncore And ACRES Partner To Drive Innovation In Clinical Research

YourEncore, an Indianapolis, Indiana-based company that helps firms in the life sciences, consumer products and food sciences industries solve complex development, regulatory and productivity challenges, and the Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a Massachusetts-based non-profit building a global system for conducting clinical research, have partnered to speed innovation in the medical therapy development sector.

YourEncore brings to ACRES experts with proven experience, tools, and best practices from the life sciences and other industries and will leverage the services of its expansive network of executives, professionals, and subject matter experts to support a wide range of ACRES projects and Foundation Initiatives. By maximizing the synergy generated through combining cross-industry expertise, ACRES and YourEncore hope to speed innovation in the biomedical development sector while improving quality and safety. The collaboration also strengthens ACRES own internal development through access to YourEncore’s extensive resources.

“YourEncore is a deeply experienced and connected community of professionals who want to contribute their lifetime of experience,” said Brad Lawson, president and CEO of YourEncore. “We are proud to partner with ACRES to serve the social good and help improve the quality and safety of clinical trials and patient outcomes.”

Greg Koski, ACRES President and CEO expressed enthusiasm about the new alliance. “All of us at ACRES are very excited about this partnership with YourEncore. With more than a dozen major initiatives underway to develop essential components of a collaborative global system, the experience and professional expertise available to us through YourEncore comes at a critically important time. Innovation is catalyzed by the synergy that comes from looking at challenges and opportunities from a variety of perspectives across multiple domains, and our partnership with YourEncore will expand ACRES capabilities.”

About ACRES
The Alliance for Clinical Research Excellence and Safety (ACRES), a non-profit multi-sector alliance working in the public interest, brings together diverse stakeholders from across the clinical research enterprise and harnesses their expertise and investments to collaboratively build an open, integrated global system, based in principles of Accountable Research. Adapting lessons from industries that have successfully implemented principles of systems and safety engineering, such as transportation, communications and information technology, this system will employ integrated information technologies and interoperable standards, policies and practices to enhance clinical research safety, quality and efficiency worldwide to benefit all stakeholders, especially patients. For more information, visit www.acresglobal.netand.

About YourEncore
Indianapolis-based YourEncore, an Inc. 5000 company, helps companies in the life sciences, consumer products and food industries solve complex innovation, compliance and productivity challenges by deploying industry-accomplished experts. YourEncore experts, which include MDs, PhDs, executives and practitioners, have on average 25 years of experience and are behind many of the most successful products on the market. In addition to advisory services, the company also offers the resources to act on its recommendations. Founded in 2003, YourEncore today works with 12 of the 15 leading global pharmaceutical companies and four of the six top consumer care companies. For more information, visit www.yourencore.com.