Clinical news roundup for the week of October 30, 2017 with information on new Alzheimer’s disease trials, clinical monitoring salaries and turnover, emphasizing patient-centric trials, and GDPR compliance concerns.
A 2017 compensation study has found that employee turnover in clinical monitoring jobs outside the U.S. increased significantly in 2016. Turnover in the clinical monitoring job function, which monitors participants’ health during a clinical trial, jumped from 16.4 percent in 2015 to 22.9 percent in 2016, an increase of 40 percent. The increase in turnover was matched, not surprisingly, by increases in salaries for those positions.
Consolidation continues in the CRO space, with the acquisition of Chiltern by LabCorp being just the latest example of top CROs expanding and increasing their breadth of offerings. As large CROs continue to acquire smaller competitors, can sponsor companies expect to benefit from this development?
Patient centricity is a growing trend in our industry. From the creation of Chief Patient Officer positions to culture-change initiatives, one of the strategies to improve the quality of clinical trials is to treat patients as “consumers” rather than “subjects” in a study.
Clinical news roundup for the week of July 18, 2016 featuring GSK's use of Apple ResearchKit, guidance on first-in-human clinical trials, clinical research transparency in India, nudging patients into clinical trials, and more.
As an applied economic theoretic, by driving out inefficiencies from the current model used by researchers to find and contract with CROs, the Science Exchange should improve the business model for drug discovery. But will all parties — Pharma/Bio, CROs and individual researchers — benefit equally?
As therapies become more targeted, so does the research to develop those therapies. That means more complex, subject-specific research and more advanced intersections between diagnostics, drugs, and delivery methods to make high-precision medicine possible. This is a future the clinical research community is aware it’s facing. Look no further than the advocacy of patient-centric (and/or patient-centered, contingent on where the interest emanates) research as patients are asked to play a more active role in monitoring their health and, in some cases, administering their medicine, especially as individualized medicines demand varied regimens.
The outsourcing industry continues to gain a bigger share of the dollars spent on preclinical, clinical, and post approval functions. To accurately quantify the size of various segments of the outsourcing market, this report acknowledges that task is next to impossible.
The nonprofit ACRES operates in the public interest, taking a multi-stakeholder approach, forming a true alliance united behind the goal of collaboratively building a system for the clinical research process, based in principles of Accountable Research™.
How do you take pharma, and other biomedical R&D, as well as CROS, which for years have operated as separate entities, and get them to come together and create standards and an accreditation process to benefit the entire industry, indeed, the entire enterprise of a complex of multiple stakeholders, including regulators and the public?
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