We hear a lot about risk-sharing in drug development these days, and it’s a healthy trend in an industry often defined by high costs and the pressure of project deadlines. Drug development thrives on cost and schedule adherence, and the inextricable link between the two leads increasingly to risk-reward arrangements between drug makers and their...
Patient enrollment may be the single most important factor in ensuring the timely execution of clinical drug research. So when we negotiated risk-reward incentives for a trial evaluating a treatment for major depressive disorder, signing up participants accounted for most of the performance incentive structure: a significant double digit percent bonus (or penalty) tied to...
The challenges of greater regulatory scrutiny, complex logistics, downward cost pressure and increasingly rigorous data requirements are just a few of the reasons biotech and pharmaceutical companies look to outsource clinical trials. In a dynamic healthcare and regulatory environment, outsourcing increases flexibility by streamlining clinical trial management and enabling sponsors to concentrate their resources on...