In the last decade, industry has changed operations of clinical research from a vertical and fixed reporting model, with a large number of in-house professionals dedicated to clinical studies, to a matrix model
involving both internal and external ...
Many readers may agree that Brazil is the country of soccer (until its recent loss to Germany by 7 to 1 in the 2014 World Cup). Brazil's famous association
with soccer galvanized after it won the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and introduced 2 phenomenal ...
Biomedical research has a long tradition in Brazil. Since the final decades of the 19th century, Europeans and Brazilian researchers were
responsible for notable scientific advances such as the work published by Carlos Chagas, which led to the ...
In spite of economic turmoil, flat or decreasing R&D budgets, and public distrust in the pharmaceutical industry, the reasons why clinical trials with new therapeutics must be done remain unchanged, if not stronger.
Late phase clinical research has become a growing focus for regulators, CROs and biopharmaceutical and medical device companies. Increasing requirements for long-term safety and effectiveness of data collection during the peri-approval and post-...
Latin American (LA) countries operate increasingly in accordance
with international standards and guidelines. This has been a major
driver for increasing interest and placement of clinical studies
in the region.