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Pharmica Consulting, the industry leader in life sciences processes and technology, is pleased to announce that Kamran Ansari from Sanofi will be speaking at Pharmica’s CRO Management Conference on September 19, 2013 in Princeton, NJ. Princeton, NJ (PRWEB) June 05, 2013 In 2013 the pharmaceutical industry will continue the downsizing of drug development operations, placing an ever greater reliance on strategic CRO alliances and collaborative technologies. As sponsors increase their...

ROCKVILLE, Md., March 26, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Accelovance, Inc., a Maryland based contract research organization (CRO), was nominated for the 2013 ViE "Best CRO" Award for the sixth year in a row and is a confirmed finalist in this award category. Therapeutically focused on vaccines, infectious disease, immunology and oncology, Accelovance was a recipient of the award, as determined by an international panel of independent judges, previously in 2009, 2010 and 2011. The...

SAN DIEGO, June 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- As a response to the extraordinary growth of outsourcing in the life science industry and the expanding number of contract research organizations (CROs) in Southern California, BIOCOM launched a new CRO website (www.biocomcro.org) as a way to inform our life science members of the vast array of services that our local CRO community has to offer. One of BIOCOM's members, 321 Medical Launch, designed and developed the website. With time to...

Although humans and woolly mammoths co-existed for millennia, the shaggy giants disappeared from the globe between 4,000 and 10,000 years ago, and scientists couldn't explain until recently exactly how the Flinstonian behemoths went extinct. In a paper published June 12 in the journal Nature Communications, UCLA researchers and colleagues reveal that not long after the last ice age, the last woolly mammoths succumbed to a lethal combination of climate warming, encroaching humans and...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com A man in Iowa has discovered the remains of a woolly mammoth that laid to rest thousands of years ago in his backyard. The man, identified only as John, said that one of his sons found something while walking in the forest behind their property in 2010, and John realized that the object was a bone. “I got down on my hands and knees on the bank, and I could see a marrow line around the edge of this, and I said, ‘Boys, that’s a bone. That’s a really...

SAN DIEGO, Feb. 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellen Morgan, former co-founder, president and CEO of Synteract, has launched a non-profit contract research organization (CRO), Public Health Alliance for Clinical Trials (PHACT). Morgan is joined by two co-founding partners, Christian Sacher of Germany, and Yaw Asare-Aboagye, a native of Ghana. PHACT, founded in May 2011 by Morgan, is conducting clinical trials for biotech and pharmaceutical products to treat diseases disproportionately...

A strangely out-of-focus video was released by The Sun this week that shows a lumbering animal walking across a river in Siberia. The video alleges the animal to be a live woolly mammoth in what would be a remarkable find as the mammoth has been extinct for nearly 4,000 years. The footage was taken by a government-employed road surveyor last summer in the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug region of Siberia, and is strangely reminiscent of the 40 year old Bigfoot film, brief and fuzzy. Many...

KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., June 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Omnicare Clinical Research, a leading global, full-service contract research organization (CRO), announces the re-branding of the company under the name Theorem Clinical Research. The brand launch marks the final step in the CRO's separation from its former parent company in a deal that was finalized this spring. Nautic Partners, LLC, a private equity firm based in Providence, R.I., acquired the CRO in a transaction publicized in April....

Researchers said that the woolly mammoth may have mated with a much larger elephant species. Woolly mammoths roamed the planet for over a million years, ranging from Europe to Asia to North America.  Nearly all these mammals vanished from Siberia about 10,000 years ago, although dwarf mammoths survived until 3,700 years ago. Although woolly mammoths lived in the cold of the tundra, the Columbia mammoth preferred the more temperate regions of southern and central North America. "We are...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., Dec. 1, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Max Neeman International announced today that Dr. Renu Razdan has been featured in the November issue of BioSpectrum India as a prominent female achiever in the Life Sciences community with valuable guidance as to what it takes to be a leader. Her insightful Q&A interview stresses that "a good work environment is critical for success." Working for India's fastest growing CRO has given Dr. Razdan valuable insight to provide the...