Today’s clinical trial landscape is saturated with vendor-outsourced trials, generating multimillion-dollar program budgets for sponsors. The constant reported budget swings and cost overruns puzzle senior leadership. What is so difficult about forecasting and managing trial budgets? Due to the inherent […]
Read MoreWorld Courier MyCubixx unit World Courier (London) has a global network (with 140 offices in 50 countries) of couriers and delivery services primarily for clinical trial management. Medical Research Network (MRN; Milton Keynes, UK; US HQ in Skokie, IL) has […]
Read MoreThe dramatic reduction in process steps after adopting a cloud-based document management system. Credit: Veeva It is well known that clinical research takes years and costs billions of dollars, just to get to the point where a drug is approved. […]
Read MoreCellular therapies—whether stem cells, T cells, lymphocytes or the tissues that are being developed in regenerative medicine—are in the spotlight in biopharma research. Even though PROVENGE, the prostate cancer treatment commercialized by Dendreon (which is now in bankruptcy) failed in […]
Read MoreFig. 1: The complexity of clinical logistics starts well before the trial materials are shipped. Credit: Brizzey In many ways, the business of providing logistics for clinical trial materials (CTMs) is perfectly awful. Relative to conventional supply-chain and logistics activities, […]
Read MoreInfosys (Bangalore, India) used the Sapphire NOW meeting (Orlando, FL; June 3-05), SAP’s North American partnering event, to introduce a cloud-based clinical-trial supply management (CTSM) solution, upgrading an on-premise version that had existed with Lodestone Holding AG (Infosys acquired Lodestone […]
Read MoreMarken (Research Triangle Park, NC), a leading express-delivery company for life sciences, has added a “customs-bonded warehouse” authorization to its Frankfurt depot. "With this certification, pharmaceuticals sent through a customs warehouse can now be shipped to non-EU countries as soon […]
Read MoreTraxx sensors on a laboratory freezer. Credit: KLATU Over the past 5–10 years, the life sciences industry has significantly upgraded its standards for transporting research and commercial materials between labs, investigator sites and commercial depots or warehouses. This activity culminated, […]
Read MoreVetter Pharma International (Ravensburg, Germany) is introducing two “clinical syringe” packages—Standard and Starter—that could be used during drug development to accelerate the commercialization process. The company notes that the traditional practice is to introduce an injectable in vial form, and […]
Read MoreWorld Courier, the global-courier company that is a leader in managing clinical trials logistics services, is opening a second facility in Sweden—this one in Gothenburg. The facility is near an airport and is equipped to handle all temperature ranges with […]
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