Author: Peter Mansell

Scotland will have advanced resources for clinical research in stratified medicine when the New South Glasgow Hospitals Campus opens in the summer of 2015.

Proteomics International, a contract research organisation and proteomics laboratory based in Perth, Australia, has signed a collaborative agreement with inVentiv Health Clinical to offer developers of biosimilar medicines outsourced services that “seamlessly transition from characterisation to clinical trials”.

Two US-based specialists in regulatory compliance for clinical trials have formed a joint venture offering global consultancy services for the development and implementation of good clinical practice (GCP) and human research protection (HRP) standards and programmes.

Cardialysis, a specialist clinical research organisation (CRO) with headquarters in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, has engaged US-based quality-compliance partner AG Mednet as its preferred provider for image-data submission and collection in clinical trials.

Novartis has become the latest pharmaceutical company to introduce a controlled access route to patient-level data from its clinical trials.