Drugs discovered today can realistically cost upwards
of 900 million dollars and around 12 years of development to reach a
market. CRO's have been increasingly
used by larger pharma to outsource their clinical research, allowing big pharma
to shut down in-house R&D, in practice saving money.
There have been some issues however with
the outsourcing of trials to CROs, including serious relationship break down
with negative attitudes, failure to communicate between to the partners and
some claiming CROs do not ‘get in the spirit' of the research following only
the letter of the contract.
Don't miss SMi's 4
th annual Managing Partnerships with CROs conference that will provide delegates with a comprehensive overview and analysis of outsourcing in the pharmaceutical sector, offering the unique opportunity to hear from
representatives from Pharma, CRO and Academia with an emphasis on improving communication
and creating strong and successful partnerships between all parties.
Key benefits of attending:
- Learn from industry specialists what current issues are facing those working within sponsor CRO relationships.
- Understand what causes breakdown in relationships and ways to prevent this
through real case studies.
- Hear from speakers on both sides of the relationship, and their strategies for developing successful partnership.
- Discuss the strategic rationale for
clinical development outsourcing among the large pharmaceutical companies
Two highly rated workshops, Peter Volker
from Booz & Co the company that recently released a highly rated report
with CRO ICON.
Dr. Volker will
discuss key issues on preparing for partnership and engagement models and success
factors and
Graeme Ladds who has
worked with CROs for many years had developed his workshop to touch upon points
for success, strategy for maintaining quality and multinational multiproduct
outsourcing.
Quote Lab
Bulletin and receive £300 discount
For more information and to secure your place
click here, alternatively contact Fateja
Begum on email
fbehum@smi-online.co.uk or tel. +44 0 207 827
6194
