Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Northeast

September 29 -30, 2010, Boston, MA, USA, Sheraton Framingham Hotel

Optimize your partner selection and alliance management
strategies to maximize your return on outsourcing investment

As the industry struggles to meet the challenges associated with a difficult economic climate, making the best use of available resources is more important than ever.

Reducing costs and increasing efficiency during the clinical trial process is crucial to sustain the long term development of new treatments. The outsourcing of clinical trials as an alternative to keeping the process in-house has long been a popular cost saving measure but now, more than ever, sponsors needs to see real returns on their investment. The measures of success in outsourcing are clear – quicker, more cost efficient clinical trials that deliver results on time and on budget.

Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Northeast has been designed to offer you practical and actionable advice on your most pressing outsourcing challenges. We aim to ensure that you leave this conference armed with all the information you need to:

• Select a CRO that will enable you to meet your goals on time and within budget
• Effectively manage your partnerships to ensure the success of your clinical trials
• Draw up a clear and detailed contract that ensures optimized results and operational success
• Apply lessons learnt from virtual companies on how to significantly reduce costs and maximize ROI
• Leverage technology and metrics to effectively manage cost control
• Ensure that your off-shoring strategy produces successful and fully compliant clinical trials
• Plan your R&D operations to ensure that they are successfully achieved within budget
• Understand how outsourcing your patient recruitment strategy can result in faster and more efficient data delivery
• Optimize your sponsor and provider team performance

Top speakers for this event include:

• Irina Kulinetz, Vice President Regulatory, ANIKA THERAPEUTICS
• Ross Pettit, Vice President, Clinical Operations, AMAG PHARMACEUTICALS
• Jodie Morrison, Vice President of Clinical Affairs and Program Operations, TOKAI PHARMACEUTICALS
• Ed Campanaro, Vice President, Clinical Operations and Data Management, Cubist Pharmaceuticals
• Amy Cohen, Vice President, Clinical Operations, EYEGATE PHARMACEUTICALS
• Larry Blankstein, Senior Director, Clinical Research, GENZYME CORPORATION