Author: Peter Mansell

JSS Medical Research, the Canadian contract research organisation (CRO) that last autumn took over LatAm Clinical Trials, has chalked up another acquisition in the form of fellow Quebec CRO Integrated Research Inc (IRI).

CROS NT, the international contract research organisation (CRO) based in Italy and specialising in clinical-data services, has marked its second acquisition in six months by taking over UK company MDSL International, a niche CRO that provides biometrics services such as clinical-data management and statistical input to the pharmaceutical industry.

Theorem Clinical Research, the US-based provider of clinical research and development services with a particular focus on complex studies, has beefed up its cardiovascular testing resources through a strategic alliance with BioTelemetry Inc.

Boehringer Ingelheim, GSK, Sanofi and ViiV Healthcare have agreed to make anonymised patient-level data from clinical trials available to researchers on request through a new online portal launched by enterprise-software specialist ideaPoint.

The US-based Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has awarded 21 grants worth $12.6 million in total under its Translational Research Programme to tackle six identified areas of high unmet need in blood cancers.