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The Growing Role of CROs in Clinical Trials

PPD

It’s estimated that nearly three out of every four clinical trials are conducted by contract research organizations (CROs), highlighting just how much sponsors value — and rely on — the work that CROs perform. Surveys show that CROs improve trial efficiency and increase productivity.

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Investment will enable pHion to progress its lead program into the clinic 

Drug Discovery World

The additional investment will support growth of the company’s proprietary RALA platform with an immediate focus on the advancement of pHion’s lead project, PTX_V1, into clinical trials in the first half of 2024. PTX_V1 is a first-in-class therapeutic vaccine for the treatment of human papilloma virus (HPV)-related cancers.

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GAO Report on Clinical Research Inspections Encourages FDA to Care for its Clinical Inspection Program

FDA Law Blog: Biosimilars

That report prompted a hearing on Capitol Hill in February of this year where HPM Counsel John Claud offered testimony. These are BIMO inspections of hospitals, clinical research organizations (CROs), and other similar facilities where clinical trial work is performed. The vast majority are for drugs. The stakes remain high, though.

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Improving Romanian teachers’ LGBT+ related attitudes through an online intervention – the LGBT inclusion project

On Medicine

To achieve this, this project takes an evidence-based approach by (1) designing an intervention based on empirical findings showing efficiency to reduce LGBT+ bias; and, (2) testing the efficiency of this intervention on Romanian teachers in a randomized control trial.

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Bayer announces filing of petition to U.S. Supreme Court for review of Hardeman decision

The Pharma Data

Supreme Court in Hardeman, the only Roundup federal product liability case to have gone to trial. Second, the admission of expert testimony departed from federal standards, enabling plaintiff’s causation witnesses to provide unsupported testimony on the principal issue in the case, Roundup ’s safety profile.

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How Lume Whole Body Deodorant Was Inspired by a Genetic Disease

PLOS: DNA Science

” The Patent Trail Rather than relying on social media, company websites, and testimonials, I consulted the Patent and Trademark database to reconstruct the story of invention. The chemo trial preceded Lume by more than a decade, so you’d think the product name would have been better researched. ” Lady parts.

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LyGenesis Receives FDA Clearance to Begin Phase 2a Trial of its Cell Therapy for Patients with End Stage Liver Disease, and also Closes $11 Million Convertible Debt Financing

The Pharma Data

Proceeds will be used to fund LyGenesis’s Phase 2a clinical trial with a first patient in targeted for early 2021, as well as to push forward on their other cell therapies using lymph nodes as bioreactors to regrow functioning organs, including pancreas, kidney, and thymus regeneration. and Longevity Vision Fund.