Expeditionary CRO Services
Providing the Tools to Reach More Patients to Create a Healthier World.
Expeditionary CRO Services
“Providing expeditionary CRO services is extremely important because we’re able to provide sponsors with time-saving, cost-effective options that wouldn’t otherwise be available. It’s a win-win because this model can help clinical trials with enrollment while bringing much needed support to patients and communities in remote areas. This is the future of clinical research and it’s available today”
Jason Ezzelle, Pharm-Olam's Chief Commercial and Government Contracts Officer
Sites
New Opportunities for Distant Sites
Expeditionary research is about more than just building site capacity. By expanding the reach of your study into remote areas, you provide sustained support to sites with the right patient population that is eager to participate in clinical research. Because most of these sites would not otherwise be able to conduct clinical trial research on top of their everyday duties, that sustained support provides a myriad of benefits.
Expeditionary research gives sites:
- Additional experience in clinical research and good clinical practice (GCP) guidelines
- Economic benefits that extend to the local community
- New options to provide for existing patients with health issues
Many sites around the world have the equipment and the infrastructure, but little to no opportunity to participate in research because of their location. Expeditionary research gives these sites the same opportunities already available to sites in other parts of the world.
Patients
Making Options Available For Everyone
For some patients in remote areas, access to potential treatment options or basic standards of care such as routine checkups can be limited. By expanding your clinical trial to include remote regions and countries, you give patients access to options that were previously unavailable.
Since prospective study indications are not limited to emerging or reemerging infectious diseases, it is possible to research potential treatments for a variety of therapeutic areas. What’s more, because certain conditions and diseases may be present in high density in some areas, your study may bring new options for people to receive better access to health care providers and diagnoses.
Sponsors
Opening Your Study to Places Few Have Gone Before
Clinical trials are more complex than ever. Helping you to create a healthier world for others depends on real solutions that make the most of tight study budgets and timelines. By taking your clinical trial to remote countries and locations, you gain efficiencies that can help create a better clinical environment to help your study succeed.
From the beginning, your clinical trial may benefit from regulatory environments in some regions that allow for faster study startup and rapid enrollment. Furthermore, your study budget may stretch farther in regions where expenses are less, which makes it cost-effective to conduct clinical trials in these areas.
Another benefit is that study screening and enrollment is streamlined due to the availability of patient populations with a high density of specific therapeutic conditions. And unlike study populations in other parts of the world, patients tend to be treatment naïve which means fewer concomitant medication criteria screen failures.
Since our expeditionary CRO service model is built to work with a variety of therapeutic conditions, you now have more possibilities to bring your study to new populations than ever before.
Ecosystem
Cultivating Remote Study Ecosystems
Our expeditionary CRO service model is uniquely positioned to support your study in remote regions through our scalable delivery ecosystem. We work with an existing regional group of partners in each area which means you not only get the benefit of our 25 years of experience in drug development, but you also have access to a network of established, trusted partners with specific geographic expertise. Our decades of experience conducting expeditionary research means the ecosystem needed to support your study is already in place.
By having self-sufficient environments that can support and sustain clinical research in remote locations, we put your study into secure ecosystems that function at optimal levels no matter the therapeutic area. From logistics to laboratory, to regulatory and everything in between, we have your study covered, making us a one-stop shop for expeditionary research.
Expeditionary CRO Services
“After decades of doing expeditionary research, our ecosystem can support and flex to fit many different therapeutic areas from infectious disease and vaccines to oncology and hematology, and beyond. No matter the indication, your clinical trial is supported by expert research.”
Jason Ezzelle, Pharm-Olam's Chief Commercial and Government Contracts Officer
Distant Geography Requires Flexible Technology
Technology That Goes Anywhere
Decades of conducting clinical research for the U.S. government in remote regions has fully equipped our expeditionary research model to become the network it is today. It is built to support your clinical trial across any therapeutic area in remote locations around the globe.
In order to execute studies in remote regions, also requires you to have supportive and flexible technology to enable you to capture data and relay it to the cloud.
Your expeditionary research is fully supported by the power of the Medidata Rave® cloud-based clinical trial platform. This means your sites have the technology they need to conduct your study no matter where they’re located. For remote site staff in the field, satellite communication gives them the ability to capture information and collect source documents and upload to the cloud even when they’re offline. Because of this, everyone supporting your study has the tools and the access they need to support your study securely and efficiently.