Author: Peter Mansell

Inclinix, a US-based contract research organisation (CRO) that provides customised solutions for patient enrolment to Phase I-IV clinical trials, has raised its profile in Eastern and Western Europe through a formal strategic partnership with JSW Life Sciences, a full-service CRO based in Austria and specialising in diseases of the central nervous system.

A 5% increase in net revenues did not stop ICON’s operating income from plunging 70% year on year in the fourth quarter of 2011, as costs continued to rise at the global provider of outsourced development services based in Ireland.

In its continuing efforts to raise patient and public awareness of research conducted in the NHS, the National Institute for Health Research’s (NIHR) Clinical Research Network (CRN) has launched a new section of its website featuring short films about the various people involved in National Health Service research activities.

Premier Research Group, the clinical-development services company based in Philadelphia, US, has reinforced its home-market presence by opening new facilities that boost testing capacity at its clinical research sites in Phoenix and Salt Lake City by 50%.

A registry set up in 2009 to help research sponsors and sites prevent healthy volunteers in North America from enrolling in concurrent or overlapping clinical trials has received a vote of confidence from the seven study sites that made up the original clinicalRSVP.com user network.