People
David Del Bourgo
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Sylvain Yon
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•With more than 20 years of expertise in medical device technology and health care business management between David Del Bourgo, the new business development director, and Sylvain Yon, the new vice president of research and development, Theraclion (Paris, France), will utilize the strengths of these two additions to prepare for an upcoming commercialization of a new
device.
Rick Turner
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•In his new position as a member of Cardiocore's (Washington, DC) scientific consulting team, Rick Turner, PhD, will assist sponsors with strategic planning, protocol development, expert reporting, and regulatory submissions.
Randy Kehrmeyer
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•A promotion to group president has Randy Kehrmeyer responsible for Kforce Clinical Research's (Tampa, FL) business development functions and enhancing relationship management and service levels for customer partnerships.
•As the former director of the Technology Investment Banking Group at Robert W. Baird and a 17-year veteran in enterprise
software and IT markets, Michael Bruns has now joined ClearTrial (Chicago, IL) as chief operating officer.
•Replacing Takatoshi Sato as the Chair of DIA's (Horsham, PA) Regional Advisory Council of Japan (ACJ) is Tatsuo Kurokawa, PhD, a former employee of the Ministry of Health and Welfare Japan, the World Health Organization, and what is currently
the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency.
•Bringing with him 25 years of experience in the pharmaceutical commercial sector, Richard Pilnik will now serve as the president of Innovex (Research Triangle Park, NC), a Quintiles company.
•Expanding its executive team, ProTrials (Mountain View, CA) has added John Foster to the position of the director of business development, which is a newly created role for the company.
•Joining the Virtify (Cambridge, MA) team as the new executive vice president of commercial operations is Stephen Bergson, who will lead the company's worldwide sales and marketing efforts.
•To support Clinipace's (Morrisville, NC) team of clinical development professionals, the company has added three new advisors: William McCulloch, MB, Joseph DeVeaugh-Geiss, MD, and Michael Hamrell, PhD, an editorial advisory board member of Applied Clinical Trials.
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Lee Potts will now serve as project director of Regulatory Presentation Management (Research Triangle Park, NC), where he will utilize his 16 years of experience in tactical and logistical guidance.
Alliances- Allowing M2S (West Lebanon, NH) to now offer its clients more options for efficient, cost-effective image collection and transfer is a
partnership with AG Mednet (Boston, MA), a HIPAA and 21 CFR Part 11 compliant diagnostic imaging network.
- Chiesi Farmaceutici SPA (Parma, Italy) has chosen to use Sparta System's (Holmdel, NJ) TrackWise software for the management of audits, non-conformance, corrective and preventative actions, and
workflow verification.
- An integration between QUMAS (Jersey City, NJ) Doc Compliance and Datafarm (Marlborough, MA) S-Cubed will provide customers with an all encompassing solution for creating and managing eCTD, non-eCTD,
and paper submissions to global regulatory agencies.
- Transitioning from a paper-based to an EDC system, U-Systems (San Jose, CA) chose to use Medidata Solution's (New York, NY) Medidata Rave for its SOMO-INSIGHT clinical study of an automated breast imaging ultrasound system for early
detection of breast cancer.
- Gemin X Pharmaceuticals (Montreal, Canada) has chosen Clinical Force's (Raleigh, NC) CTMS solution for the management of its clinical trials and has thus far installed the project management,
regulatory/ethics management, CRF tracking, visit reports, and site payment modules.
- After the signing of an alliance between SIRO (Mumbai, India) and Advanced Clinical Trial Solutions (Flemington, NJ), SIRO will now be able to expand its oncology clinical development and patient recruitment services into
North America, while Advanced Clinical Trials Solutions will gain access to SIRO's services in India and European countries.
- Phoenix Eagle Company (Mount Lawley, Australia) and Datapharm Australia (Drummoyne, Australia) have signed an agreement to conduct the first randomized clinical trial of a papaya product intended
to heal venous and pressure ulcers.
- Extending on a contract that was signed in 2007, Phase Forward (Waltham, MA) and Everest (Little Falls, NJ) have resigned a multiyear, multi-million dollar agreement that entails Everest implementing Phase Forward's
InForm and Central Designer in-house.
- With the intent of bringing more clinical studies to India, Novotech (Sydney, Australia) and ETI Klinical (Bangalore, India) have entered into a joint venture that requires the companies to collaborate and share both experience
and services to serve regional and international pharma companies.
- Being selected to provide Johns Hopkins University with data management software and services for a Phase I clinical trial
of a new vaccine is C-tasc (Baltimore, MD), which will provide its StudyCTMSTM for under $50,000.
- The Academy of Molecular Imaging has chosen American College of Radiology (ACR) Image Metrix (Philadelphia, PA) to provide
data and image storage infrastructure for a randomized PET/CT bone imaging clinical trial.
