CROs 2009 Workshop Video

For those who missed the workshop last month in Orlando, we are providing unlimited access to this timely workshop to all Partnerships attendees and their colleagues. And since we understand your training and travel budgets are limited at this time, this video workshop is completely free of charge.

Simply click the link below to watch the video at your leisure, and feel free to pass along to your CRO colleagues.

http://www.iirusa.com/cropartners/BDWorkshop.xml

If you are in business/corporate development, sales, marketing, client relations, account management, operations or project management at a CRO or other outsourcing provider, this video workshop will help you achieve your professional development goals including:

• Demonstrate value to Sponsors who are increasingly pushed to make decisions based solely on cost
• Understand how downsizing in pharma will make micro-managing a thing of the past as CROs take over as the ‘doer’
• Access the right people (decision makers) in an organization to approach for new business opportunities -- and getting them to return your call
• And much more....

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Raising alarms, study sees trials migrating abroad

John Carroll at FierceBiotech.com reports that the U.S. drug industry has shifted most of its clinical trials to overseas sites in a trend that experts warn raises serious ethical concerns. According to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine, 13,521 of 24,206 trial sites being sponsored by the top 20 U.S. drug companies in late 2007 were taking place beyond our borders, where data can be harvested cheaper and faster than the data gathered inside the U.S. And the study adds that the number of countries hosting trials has doubled in 10 years. Most of the countries hosting clinical trials may be using individuals who could never afford the medications and approval for these trials has been less than half. What are your thoughts?

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