Contract Research Organisations (CROs)

Sygnature Discovery has announced the acquisition of Canada-based contract research organisation NuChem Sciences. The transaction expands Sygnature’s business operations into the North American market. Together, Sygnature Discovery and NuChem hope to combine the best of North American and UK operations. Marc Lebel, President and Chairman at NuChem Sciences, said: “We are delighted to become an […]

Humanised mouse model CRO TransCure bioServices and South Korean CRO Preclina have agreed a partnership to improve preclinical development services in the APAC region. Drug developers in APAC have typically faced many challenges when it comes to preclinical development, from limited access to animal model providers and poor service offering breadth and capacity, to a […]

Research services provider Domainex has secured a new, fully fitted, three-storey building in Unity Campus in Cambridgeshire, UK. Domainex first moved to Unity Campus in January 2022, taking 7,000 sq ft of laboratory space at Iconix 2 to provide a dedicated facility for its biology department and freeing up space at its closely located Chesterford […]

Italian contract research organisation IRBM has signed a new agreement with Merck & Co Inc (MSD outside the USA and Canada) to continue their collaboration in the peptide therapeutics area. “The success of this collaboration is reflected by the outstanding achievements in the delivery of orally available peptide candidates,” said Elisabetta Bianchi, Senior Director of […]

Nearly three-fourths of life sciences organisations surveyed have invested in digital pathology to advance drug research and development (R&D), according to new research commissioned by Proscia. Over half of these organisations (53%) still center their operations around legacy software systems primarily for basic image viewing despite growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) to accelerate the […]

Galapagos and NovAliX have entered a strategic collaboration in which Galapagos’ research and discovery capabilities and exclusively related employees based in Romainville, France, will be transferred to NovAliX, a drug discovery-focused Contract Research Organisation. The agreement follows Galapagos’ renewed focus on its key therapeutic areas of oncology and immunology, and the strategic reorientation of the […]

By Lucy Radley, Head of EU Regulatory Development, ProPharma. A rare disease is defined as a condition which affects less than one in 2000 people. Although individually they are very rare, collectively they are common with one in 17 people (around 3.5 million) in the UK being affected by a rare disease at some point […]

Independent Medical Writer Leonie Onslow explores the challenges of traditional clinical trial models and how to improve recruitment and retention. Covid-19 and the subsequent strain on health systems and research capabilities has created the opportunity to change the traditional clinical trial model of using hundreds of GP sites, which in the long term has proven […]

According to a report by Cpl Life Sciences and Vacancysoft, 2022 has remained consistently steady for the life sciences industry in Europe in terms of recruitment, though still below 2021 levels.  The yearly forecast shows that vacancies could reach around 13,684 by the end of 2022, a year-on-year growth of 9% compared to 2021.   Contract […]

Clinical research organisation (CRO) Emmes has unveiled a dedicated centre to expand its cell and gene therapy research.  The new centre will offer research services in clinical trial operations, study leadership, statistical services, data management, and pharmacovigilance.  Adam Mendizabal has been named the scientific leader of the Cell and Gene Therapy Center.  Mendizabal said: “Innovations […]

DDW sits down with Mark Matson, Senior Solution Specialist for Sensor Cloud at Medidata, a Dassault Systèmes company, about the use of digital biomarkers in life sciences and how they can help advance our understanding of disease.  How do we define digital biomarkers?  Digital biomarkers are data, or metrics, collected using digital health technologies to help describe […]