Component Type: Session
Level: Intermediate
CE: CME 1.25; IACET 1.25; RN 1.25

Outsourcing has been a major topic in the pharmaceutical industry over the last decade. As drug development costs increase, trial complexity grows, and work in emerging markets becomes more important, the industry has looked toward outsourcing to help combat these challenges. But what impact has the rising proportion of outsourcing had on operational performance? How is the effect being measured or tracked? This panel will explore the dynamic between CROs and sponsors and their expectations, the operational benefits of outsourcing, as well as the challenges from outsourcing. It will examine performance and the crucial factors that influence internally-conducted trials versus outsourced trials, how these differences are being managed, and what changes have occurred over time.

Learning Objectives

Recognize the operational benefits and challenges of outsourcing clinical trials; Classify the different approaches to outsourcing and the strategic trade-offs.

Chair

Scott R Martin, JD

Speaker

Creating an External Alliances Structure
John F. Kurtz

How Real World Research Challenges Outsourcing Strategies
Michael George Minor

Controlling Study Level Budgets with CROs
Michael Williamson, MSc