10 Most Innovative CRO’s To Watch In 2022.pdf

During the COVID-19 pandemic, if clinicians, healthcare service-providing staff, nurses, and doctors were battling at the forefront, then the Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) have been working hard

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The Impact of Emerging
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Pre-Clinical CRO Market
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Prof Yves Henrotin
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Artialis
10 Most Innovative CRO’s To Watch In 2022.pdf
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uring the COVID-19 pandemic, if clinicians,
Dhealthcare service-providing staff, nurses, and
doctors were battling at the forefront, then the
Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) have been
working hard in the background to develop effective
vaccines to fight this novel coronavirus.
With millions of cases emerging every day globally, the
demand for quick vaccination raised the expectations from
the CROs to rise to the occasion and intensify their vaccine
research, clinical trials, testing and developmental efforts,
which they did in a record time.
Because of their tremendous efforts, global unit came up
with nearly a dozen vaccines already being deployed
worldwide, with over sixty-eight per cent global population
vaccinated at least once.
These are tremendous achievements while these CROs are
further advancing their forces to find more possible ways
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The momentum will be carried forward as predicted by the
Reportlinker's report. According to the report, the global
CRO market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.06%
during 2022-26 and reach $40 billion by the end of 2026.
The report further states that the market will be further
driven by the growing biopharmaceutical industry,
increased global R&D expenditure and investment,
regulations of clinical trials, and technological innovations
in the healthcare industry, particularly in the CRO end-user
market segment and geographical landscape.
To grasp these very positive scenarios for the present and
future of the CRO industry, Insights Care's team unveiled
this exclusive edition of the '10 Most Innovative CROs To
Watch In 2022.' These ten CROs are among the disruptive
innovators when it comes to clinical trials, R&D, and
assisting the vaccine development drive. Also included in
this edition are two trendy articles our in-house editorial
team curated to give you a holistic view of the entire
scenario.
Flip through the following pages and witness CROs'
futuristic leap into a healthier tomorrow; enjoy!
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Featuring
Artialis SA
Prof Yves Henrotin,
Founder and Executive
President
Artialis provides scientific expertise, R&D support services,
and tools for the evaluation of clinical, structural, and
biological impact of a compound on musculoskeletal health.
Biomapas
Audrius Sveikata,
CEO
A complete spectrum of Clinical Research, Regulatory
Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, and Medical Information
services across Europe, CIS, EAEU and MENA regions.
Bionical Emas
Jonathan
Waring-Hughes,
CEO
Clinergy Health
Research
Tiago M D da Silva,
Managing Director
CLINERGY is a Collaborative Research Organization offering
tailored solutions to drive operational excellence by addressing
key pain points generally overlooked by the traditional
outsourcing model, helping health innovation reaching patients
faster.
NDA Regulatory Science
(NDA Group)
Christine Lind,
Vice President
Commercial
NDA’s sole commitment is to make sure that the best possible
medicines reach the market without unnecessary delay and
ensuring that they remain there for as long as they benefit the
patients.
Catherine Lund,
Director
OnQ Research was founded more than ten years ago as a
monitoring consultancy. It has since evolved into a full
service Contract Research Organization.
OnQ Research
Thomas Ogorka,
CEO
A leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) designed
to navigate the complexity of trials in orphan indications. It
accelerates the clinical development of orphan drugs and
facilitates patient access to urgently needed new treatments
for rare conditions.
P.R.I.S.M.A.-CRO
GmbH
Gernot Cremer,
MD
PharSafer
Dr Graeme
Ladds, Director,
CEO and Owner
PharSafer provides tailored solutions to act as a complete
pharmacovigilance, cosmetovigilance and medical services
department.
Bionical Emas is a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) which
combines Clinical Development, Early Access Program (EAP)
and Clinical Trial Supply (CTS) services to deliver a unique,
seamless approach to bring life-changing medicines around the
world.
P.R.I.S.M.A. is a German Clinical Research Organization
(CRO) and dedicated to support the European portion of the
pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
Link Medical Research
Ola Gudmundsen,
CEO
LINK Medical is a full-service Nordic CRO providing
product development services for the pharmaceutical and
medical device industries across Northern Europe.
Orphan Reach
Company Name
10 Most Innovative CRO's To Watch In 2022
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ver the last few decades, CROs have evolved into
more than just a simple outsourced resource in the
pharmaceutical sector. They are specialists in the
field, active participants in clinical trials, and significant
contributors to the industry's success.
The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the
pharmaceutical sector, piquing public interest in the clinical
development process. It is widely acknowledged that
without the assistance of CROs, the industry's most recent
advancements and clinical accomplishments during the
pandemic would not have been conceivable.
CROs swiftly adopt new technology, allowing them to
deliver unique insights and recommendations by finding
new and innovative methods to use advanced tools and
tailoring them to each sponsor's needs to ensure optimal
clinical trial performance. Some CRDOs even have their
distinct services. This is where comes into the
Artialis
spotlight.
Artialis offers preclinical, clinical and biotesting services to
support product development from research to post-
marketing authorization stages and is an expert in
musculoskeletal disorders (bone, cartilage, muscle, tendon,
and ligament), inflammatory conditions, and healthy aging.
The company supports its clients (from Pharma, Biotech
and Food supplement industries) during all stages of their
product development plan.
Under the leadership of Prof Yves Henrotin, Founder and
Executive President, Artialis provides tailor-made clinical
trial solutions, including innovative endpoints, such as
soluble biomarkers, medical imaging (X-ray, MRI), and gait
and motion analyses. This association of preclinical and
clinical expertise reinforces the translational value of each
study.
The Legacy
Artialis is a CRDO, Contract Research and Development
Organization, located in Belgium.
From preclinical studies to post-marketing clinical trials,
Artialis provides regulatory and scientific expertise, R&D
support services, and tools to evaluate compounds' clinical,
structural, and biological impact.
Artialis offers state-of-the-art study design and management
of in vitro and in vivo preclinical studies, including gold-
standard endpoints (macroscopy, histology) and innovative
tools of evaluation, such as soluble biomarkers, imaging,
pain, and gait and motion analyses.
In-vitro, Artialis has developed cell culture models
(chondrocytes, synoviocytes, muscles, bone and
inflammatory cells) to study the cytotoxicity, the catabolic
and anabolic effects, the anti-inflammatory properties, and
the mode of action of candidates.
Artialis also offers an extensive portfolio of exclusive and
innovative biomarkers and specializes in selecting and
validating external ELISA kits. In addition, the company
can design and develop specific on-demand biomarkers
supporting each step of the client's product development.
Although Artialis is specialized in MSK field and aging
related diseases, it is also active in other domains like
gastroenterology and infectiology. Regarding clinical trials,
among all that have been managed by Artialis, a recent one
has suited a lot of interest and shows major and positive
results of food supplement for COVID 19 hospitalized
patients:
Link on yahoo.com: New clinical trial shows the major and
positive effect of food supplement in hospitalized patients
with COVID-19 (yahoo.com)
Link on prnewswire: A new clinical trial shows the major
and positive effects of food supplements in hospitalized
patients with COVID-19 (prnewswire.co.uk)
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Two scientific societies have significantly improved clinical
research on osteoarthritis and cartilage regeneration. It is
the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI),
which is the leading medical society for advancing the
understanding, early detection, treatment, and prevention of
osteoarthritis (OA), and the International Cartilage
Regeneration and Joint Preservation (ICRS), which is the
main forum for international collaboration in cartilaginous
tissue research.
They have produced a series of guidelines for the design
and conduct of clinical trials and for assessing tissue lesion
and cartilage repair in animal models.
These guidelines are helpful for clinical research
organizations active in the rheumatological field. The
follow-up of those guidelines allows a better
standardization of the preclinical and clinical research
activities.
Continuum of Quality Assured Services
All Articles activities are based on high-quality standards:
from ISO certifications to international guidelines, from
preclinical to manufacturing, skilfully integrated by the
Quality assurance officer.
Artialis is a unique CRO as it can support products from
"bench to bedside" in all medical fields. Indeed, the
company recently became a CRDO, 'Contract Research and
Development Organization.'
The company proposes services to support product
development from research to post-marketing
authorization stages with a team of experts ensuring a
complete and personalized follow-up. Artialis offers a
variety of services, from preclinical stages (in vitro and in
vivo) to clinical stages, including biotesting services to
fulfill the requirements of a development plan in the same
facility. Most notably, Artialis has high expertise in the
development of soluble biomarkers to monitor product
efficacy in animals and humans.
This can be immunoassays or mass spectrometry analysis to
quantify drug targets in any biological fluid. Artialis team is
comprised of Ph.Ds. Its team of experts in the field is keen
on offering the best services on the market.
Artialis offers a large panel of cell culture and preclinical
models (in vivo) for studying innovative treatments.
Importantly, Artialis owns a high technological platform to
evaluate the efficacy of treatments on pain and mobility
during in vivo studies. Artialis helps you design your
research and development plan in line with the product
positioning.
Artialis is unique as it develops biological analysis allowing
it to monitor product efficacy during all stages of its
development. Furthermore, the company offers a
translational approach from cells to patients while
respecting the highest quality standards and regulatory
requests.
Pearls of Wisdom
Sharing his opinions on how the adoption of modern
technologies like AI and ML is impacting the CRO industry,
Prof Yves Henrotin said, "Artificial Intelligence and
Machine Learning are part of our strategic development
plan."
"We are a member of a large European consortium in which
AI and ML are used to develop an algorithm to identify
patient phenotype and predict disease development and
treatment responses. We are also looking for a partnership
to co-develop an algorithm predictive of subjects' responses
to placebo or to simulate patient cohorts.
These two areas are included
in our strategic plan and
constitute a priority for our
company."
Ar alis is a human-size company with sixteen
employees, each an expert in their field of work. The
execu ve commi ee is comprised of four people
bestowed below:
Prof Yves Henro n: Founder, Chairman of the Board, and
President
Prof Yves Henro n is a professor of Pathology, Physical
Therapy, and Rehabilita on and Director of the
musculoSKeletal Innova ve research Lab (mSKIL,
www.mskil.be) at the University of Liège (Belgium). He
is the ‘Head of the Physical Therapy and Rehabilita on
Department’ at the Princess Paola Hospital (Vivalia,
Belgium), an ac ve member of the Osteoarthri s
Research Society Interna onal (OARSI), the French
Society of Rheumatology, the Interna onal Car lage
Repair Society (ICRS), and the European
Viscosupplementa on Consensus Group (EUROVISCO).
He is also the founder and President of The
Osteoarthri s Founda on (www.osteoarthri s
founda on.eu)
Dr Bérénice Costes: Chief Opera ng Officer
Dr Bérénice comprehends ten years of experience in
academic research and more than 12 years of
experience in the life science industry. She is a specialist
in clinical research with exper se in musculoskeletal and
age-related disorders.
Dr Melanie Uebelhoer: Chief Scien fic Officer
With 14 years of experience in academic research and
two years of industry experience in a CRO, Dr Melanie is
a specialist in R&D ac vi es with exper se in managing
large team-driven research projects and scien fic
communica on.
Dr Sandra Pietri: Chief Business Officer
Dr Sandra is a specialist in non-clinical and R&D ac vi es
with exper se in orthopedics and musculoskeletal
disorders. She comprehends eight years of experience in
academic research and eleven years of industry
experience in a Cell therapy company.
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us to save time, limit data transcription errors, and improve
the quality of our services. In collaboration with a local
partner, we have recently developed an application allowing
rapid screening of patients and thus accelerating
recruitment.
Time is important for our customers, and we do everything
we can to reduce the duration of clinical studies."
In preclinical, AI is used routinely to quantify structural and
functional parameters. For structural changes, histology is a
key parameter; AI helps rapidly and accurately quantify
specific staining (standard histology) or targets (using
immunofluorescence) and allows to gain time and quantify
larger regions of interest. For functional evaluation in
preclinical, AI is used for the Digital Weight Bearing
analysis and during the in-life phase of animals.
This analysis allows one to register the animal weight
repartition on the four paws and clearly identify the
treatment efficacy on this parameter in OA models. Finally,
one of Artialis commitments is to keep a watch on
technologies allowing tissues and biological analysis.
Recently, the organization has managed proteomics
analyses of many sera to identify drug targets, mode of
action of the drug and identify companion biomarkers.
Words of Inspiration
Advising the budding aspirants willing to venture into the
healthcare niche, Prof Yves Henrotin shared, "To have a
good prototype. Avoid jumping in too quickly. This will
allow you to maintain control of your project and not fall
prey to financial predators."
"Think carefully about your development plan and correctly
estimate the duration and costs of the different development
phases. To find enough funds to support product
development and a good financial or industrial partner."
"To be determined, courageous and patient and to find a
good partner to accompany you on this long and winding
road. This is exactly the mission of Artialis." - Prof Yves
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Embracing the Future Roadmap
The executive team plans to multiform the MSK business
with gastroenterology. In this way, Artialis expects to
double its turnover in 2025. The company envisions having
an affiliate office in strategic countries to extend its
operation worldwide.
Recognition of Achievements
Artialis has been listed amongst the TOP 10 Bioanalytical
services companies in Europe in 2021 by Life Sciences
Review.
Artialis is listed on ICH GCP as a Clinical Research
organization.
Artialis is accredited "Crédit Impôt Recherche" and "Crédit
Impôt Innovation" allowing French companies to finance
their research and development and product development
activities.
Artialis is ISO 9001 compliant, guaranteeing the quality
processes and the satisfaction of its customers.
Artialis' animal facility is accredited AAALAC. That means
that Artialis complies with the standards for humane
treatment of animals used in research and testing.
Bionical Emas
Advocators of Development and Innova on
ith rapid advancements in technologies
Walongside the ever-increasing need for drug
development, Contract Research Organizations
(CROs), have significantly influenced the landscape of
biotech and pharma development. They are keeping up the
pace to provide a cutting-edge science to facilitate the
growing needs of the field.
Furthering this ever-increasing need to design
developmental strategies, Bionical Emas provides services
that cater to the client's drug and pharma development
needs. Being a global Contract Research Organization, what
makes the company unique is that it combines clinical
development, early access program, and clinical trial supply
capabilities to deliver an exceptional, seamless service for
its international pharma and biotech clients.
Their wide range of services enables them to maximize
access and generate evidence at every point along the drug
development pathway. This means they can simultaneously
address the immediate and future needs of patients.
Standing as a guiding light to this innovative path is
Jonathan Waring-Hughes, as its Chief Executive Officer.
An Exemplary Leadership
Jonathan took on the role of Bionical Emas, CEO in 2018
and is responsible for the overall running and performance
of the business globally. Since joining the company in
2013, he has been an integral part and founding member of
the organization. He is extremely passionate and driven by
the company's mission of pioneering the way life-changing
medicines are developed and accessed for patients around
the world.
He initially founded and headed up the Clinical Trial
Supply (CTS) division in the UK before spending time in
the US setting up Bionical Emas Inc. and offering services
for the US market. He has played an essential role in
creating and driving the global commercial and operational
strategy which has seen the business grow from 15 people
in 2013 to over 200 in 2022, with operations across the US,
EU, UK, and Australasia.
Jonathan is a remarkably young CEO, proving that success
in running a business doesn't have a direct correlation with
a specific profile or age group. His talent, passion, and
aspiration to make a positive difference were recognised by
the Board of Directors as the key attributes of a great leader.
His successful tenure in the role is proof that innovative
thinking in a business context, particularly at the People
level, can pay-off. Jonathan manages Bionical Emas under
the same approach, which results in a highly diverse and
inclusive company, where career progression is a reality
and women in senior leadership roles is the norm. Under his
exemplary leadership, the company operates on fully
integrated services. Let us have a look at them.
The Three Core Business Units
Bionical Emas operates as a fully integrated services
business based around three core business units, which are
made up of a wide range of product and service lines.
Clinical Development
The company runs global Phase I to Phase IV clinical trials
for its international pharma and biotech clients and has an
oncology and rare disease therapeutic focus. In addition,
throughout the pandemic, it has also been heavily involved
in the running of COVID-19 studies.
Bionical Emas implement traditional and decentralized
clinical trial models, utilizing its global in-house teams of
clinical development professionals and innovative
technologies to pioneer the way medicines are developed
for patients around the world.
Early Access Programs (EAP)
Bionical Emas EAP is the only specialist Early Access
Program (EAP) partner to harness the full power of an
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A range of in-house services perfectly complements its
global EAP experience in oncology and rare disease areas.
The company puts the patient at the heart of everything it
does. The goal of the company is to help current and future
generations by providing timely and appropriate treatment
access to patients in desperate need.
Clinical Trial Supply (CTS)
Bionical Emas provides unrivaled access to medicines and
ancillaries for use in clinical trials. It offers customized end-
to-end supply solutions for its international pharma and
biotech customer base.
The global network of manufacturer partnerships enables
the company to deliver sustainable and reliable access to
medicines and ancillaries for clinical trial sponsors,
healthcare professionals, and patients globally.
Delivering Excellent Services through its Driven Mission
The mission of Bionical Emas is to pioneer the way
life-changing medicines are developed and accessed
for patients around the world.
It is the people of Bionical Emas that truly differentiate
them, and their focus on delivering excellence across
their suite of services that leads to long-term
partnerships with its broad base of clients, HCP's, and
patients.
Jonathan states, "we are bold, creative, and driven by
the fact we are changing patients' lives."
Adoption of Modern Technologies
According to Jonathan, "Modern technologies like
blockchain, sensing technologies, Artificial Intelligence
(AI), and Machine Learning (ML) are having a huge impact
on the way the sector is operating." He believes that these
technologies are helping to improve agility, quality, and
patient adherence and fundamentally reducing the cost of
running clinical studies but keeping data fully secure.
These technologies are also helping clinical trial activities
to be shifted closer to the patient. The COVID-19 pandemic
has forced the sector to increase the adoption of these
technologies significantly. The company has seen a huge
movement toward hybrid clinical trials, putting the patient's
comfort first and meeting patients where they are.
Bionical Emas has made a significant investment in
technologies, so it can meet the sponsor's needs in running
clinical studies. The company is using Machine Learning
(ML) to review data captured from sites and identify any
trends and/or anomalies to optimize the digital clinical trial
pathway. Jonathan asserts, "We are using Artificial
Intelligence (AI) to speed up recruitment and feasibility
process, minimizing manual and repetitive tasks and
fundamentally improving patient adherence."
He further states that using natural language processing to
automatically identify adverse events improves the quality
of service being provided to its sponsors. The company has
partnered with some leading technology companies to help
the company provide decentralized clinical trials, giving it
tools like eCOA/ePRO and eConsent to bring these
activities to patients.
A Note to Remember
When addressing the budding entrepreneurs who wish to
progress in the CRO space, Jonathan asserts, "I would say
that creating a truly differentiated offering is critical for
anyone looking to venture into the space. The sector is
awash with CROs of many shapes and sizes, so it is
important to find a niche that enables you to differentiate
against your competitors.
Over the coming years, I believe the focus will continue to
be on further enhancing the patient experience through
implementing innovative technologies and de-
centralized/hybrid clinical trials." This will ultimately lead
to faster and more diverse patient recruitment.
Roadmap to the Future
When talking about scaling the company's operations,
Jonathan states, "Our strategy is to drive organic and
acquisitive growth by developing and cross-selling our
widening portfolio of services and capabilities into our
international client base and by expanding our
geographical footprint."
Over the past few years, the company has made significant
investments in the three core pillars of the business -
people, infrastructure, and technology, which provide the
company with a platform for operational and geographical
expansion in 2022 and beyond. Jonathan believes that
expanding its operations across the EU, US and JAPAC
regions will be a major focus over 2022 and the coming
years.
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ost COVID-19 pandemic world has completely
Pchanged. The impact is most severe on the
healthcare industry, especially on the clinical
research and trials activities across the globe. The life
science industry met unprecedented challenges which
forced it to accelerate innovation, revamp its traditional
mindset and embrace digital, virtual and online capabilities
to ensure service continuance.
Traditionally, the Industry was very cautious, slow and
reticent in adopting digital and virtual clinical trial
practices. It was comprehensible, evident and expected
since many of the device-dependent diagnosis and
treatment driven therapeutic areas added much more
complexity to the digital, virtual, and remote offering
evolution. Further, already established, proven, and existing
decade old practices could not be abandoned or replaced or
shifted to the digital, virtual or remote mode.
This emerged as the major concern in the continuance of
clinical research and trial niche, leading to almost 87%
reduction in clinical research in England during the peak
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time of first wave, as later found out by University College
London study. Answering the question of avoidance, the
industry opened up its mindset to accept the changing
realities of clinical trials and shifting nature of clinical
research in the post-pandemic world.
The Changing Dynamics of Clinical Research Industry
A rapidly growing industry, clinical research and trials is
advancing due to new studies conducted in record numbers,
ever-increasing patient participation expanding the clinical
trial subject pool, numerous research sites of excellent
quality, and a huge volume of successful trials over the
years contributing to the expertise and values. Further
development of technical modules and various modalities
could improve clinical trial continuance and drive
innovation and change to the higher level.
However, all these modalities and modules must meet the
standard criteria's and benchmarks of excellence so that the
safety and security of the trials could be maintained or
enhanced. This is where digital, virtual, and remote
technologies could aid in optimizing various processes like
site feasibility, pre-screening of patients, selection and
clinical trial providence.
By reviewing its own trends, changes, pressures, upheavals,
successes and failures during the last two and a half years,
the clinical trial industry managed to come up with more
than a dozen coronavirus vaccines, thus pushing forward
the innovation driven momentum and accelerating the
renewed focus by considering key factors of success.
Tech-Focus
With many of the restrictions still being in effect, industry's
digital mindedness is continuing. Simply, the industry has
now fully adopted an entire decentralized virtual model
attitude or a hybrid approach. In this new approach,
organizations are compelled by the virus to continue with
the clinical trial modalities which can offer at-home or
remote testing facilities along with online practices and
digital techniques. It will ensure clinical trial continuance
for patients in a more comfortable, convenient, safe and
secure manner. This will be done without any negative
impact on the clinical investigators participation.
During the last two and a half years remote pre-screening
tests, e-consent practices and monitoring approval by
patients and clinicians is on the rise. Since they are now
established as preliminary benchmarks for future
modalities, the industry could further leverage
advancements in practices best suitable and feasible across
the entire spectrum of life science industry to further drive
safe, secure, flexible, patient-centric, comfortable,
convenient, and efficient clinical research and trial
modalities which will constantly keep improving the future
performance of clinical trials.
It will provide a primary foundation for the both hybrid
modelled and fully virtual research and trial environments
which will be completely equipped with precise tools,
adequate techniques, robust and seamless infrastructure, a
well-integrated ecosystem, and big-data analytical
methodologies.
Creating Streamlined Ecosystem
When cross-functional entities work jointly, all the related
stakeholders could participate in offering inputs, gaining
information, and mutually assessing the developmental
approaches to increase the result acceptance amidst the
changing market dynamics. This is crucial when deriving
digital, virtual and remote clinical trial effectiveness
assessment.
As they have easy access to patients, clinical investigators,
sites, and sponsors, partners of Clinical Research
Organizations(CROs) can promptly facilitate further
enhancements in digital, virtual and remote clinical trials
conductions success.
Futuristic CROs Transforming the Clinical Research
Before the pandemic happened not any expert would have
been able to predict the future of healthcare industry forget
of clinical research and trial industry. Although the
pandemic is unprecedented in its devastation, one thing it
did good is the way it diverted the entire progress path of
sector world over.
The possibilities, opportunities, and probabilities it has
opened up is an unimaginably positive future in itself. The
journey has merely started. We could push the boundaries
of now established innovation further. This way we could
explore some unexplored areas in the clinical trials with
many CROs coming together and creating an upbeat
ecosystem which will operate like an industry organ which
will facilitate a future where globally innovative modalities
could be established, enhanced and advanced so that
whenever any unprecedented crisis situation will arrive in
the future, the industry as a whole and the world as united
will be able to combat.
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he Healthcare industry usually faces problems to
Tbridge the gap and solve the problems promptly,
isn't it something that should be taken care of?
Acknowledging these concerns of filling up the operational
gaps and solving the problems in a timely manner,
Clinergy Health Research has solutions to a variety of
managerial issues while also providing a full revamp of all
the health care processes.
Having this problem-solving approach and abundant
experience, Tiago M D da Silva, Managing Director, has
scientific and management knowledge to enhance the
operational experience and deliver superior results.
In an interview with Insights Care, Mr. da Silva talks about
Clinergy roles and how it is making a significant difference
through its solutions into the healthcare niche.
Please brief our audience about Clinergy Health
Research, its USPs, and how it is positioned as a reliable
name in the CRO sector?
Clinergy is a CRO, but we always like to highlight that our
"C" stands for "Collaborative" rather than "Contract," and,
while for some people, that might look like a small detail, it
makes all the difference.
Being a Collaborative Research Organization means that
our structure, processes, values, and people are fully
focused on long-term value-adding partnerships rather than
on short-term transactional relationships with clients.
Such a mindset allows us to truly embrace our clients´
vision and ways of working. We act as an extension of their
team, focusing on what matters to them while feeling
empowered to "run the extra mile" to deliver operational
excellence.
This is now more important than ever as we see what has
been happing to the CRO environment over the past two
decades, with so many mergers and acquisitions resulting in
huge CROs with inflated structures (and costs) that surely
can still serve a set of substantial clients but no longer fits to
serve small biotechs, pharma companies and healthcare
start-ups given their very particular needs in terms of costs,
flexibility, sense of urgency and attention.
Unlike most CROs, our key driver is not related to short-
term financial goals. However, long-term customer
satisfaction and we bring that to daily life through the way
we shape our KPIs, quality control strategies, and risk-
based thinking in everything we do. Another element that
brings our unique mindset to life is the fact that we have
made a conscious decision not to have a business
development/sales team.
Whenever clients reach out to us looking for our services,
they get to talk directly with our team of medical doctors,
pharmacists, nurses, biologists who will be directly
involved in the client´s clinical trial/project, most of whom
have been on clinical development for 15, 20+ years.
At the end of the day, science comes first in everything we
do so that we can achieve our mission of "helping health
innovation reaching patients faster."
Shed some light on your offerings and how they impact
the CRO industry as well as your clients. How your
company provides research services to various
organizations?
The value we add as strategic partners to our clients is
much more a result of our focus on the "how" rather than on
the "what." We are equipped to provide end-to-end planning
solutions, conducting and reporting clinical trials from site
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elements that are key to
delivering operational
excellence with a high focus on
the human aspects that make a
difference in how we deliver it
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feasibility and selection to project management, regulatory
submissions, risk-based monitoring, data management,
statistics, medical writing, among others. However, the
means we utilize to deliver are essential.
We are very meticulous when it comes down to
understanding what delivery methods can fit each client
better so that we can offer cost-effective solutions tailored
to each of them without having to choose between cost and
efficiency and without trying to push "over the top"
solutions only to justify we have them.
Tiago M D da Silva
Managing Director
Clinergy Health Research
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While we rely on state-of-the-art tech solutions to plan and
manage trials efficiently, our secret sauce is our people, no
question about it. As we like to say, Clinergy is all about
"humanology and technology for high-performance clinical
development."
What are the core values upon which Clinergy Health
Research is built? What is the vision and mission of your
organization?
Our values are built upon elements that are key to
delivering operational excellence with a high focus on the
human aspects that are effective in how we deliver it daily.
They are a sense of urgency, entrepreneurship, efficiency,
caring for others, integrity, and passion.
We all know how hard and costly it is to put health
innovation into the hands of those who needed it, and, as
scientists, there is nothing more disappointing than
inefficiencies playing a role in that. Our mission of "helping
health innovation reaching patients faster" reminds us that
we should always be acting as catalysts so that we add real
value to the innovation chain.
Mr Tiago, please tell us about your professional tenure
in the CRO Industry.
Before founding CLINERGY, I have fulfilled different
clinical operations roles, including leading the Global
Clinical Research Operations for medicinal products within
a UK-based FTSE 100 consumer health company.
I had the pleasure to spend the last 17 years driving and
delivering strategic projects for companies such as
Novartis, Abbott, Eli Lilly, and Reckitt Benckiser, helping
patients have access to value-adding medicines and health
innovation across multiple geographic locations.
Having lived and worked in both hemispheres on either side
of the Atlantic, I have acquired an intimate appreciation of
the cultural and regulatory differences that truly impact
global clinical research.
Being an experienced leader, share your opinion on how
modern technologies have impacted the CRO sector.
How has Clinergy Health Research incorporated such
technologies into its daily operations?
Clinical development has benefited a great deal from new
tech solutions over the past 15 years, most notably over the
past decade. CROs have a key role in making innovative
solutions available to their clients by utilizing data-driven
solutions to reduce operational complexity, make better-
informed decisions around study design, monitor workforce
assignment, and conduct remote trials.
At Clinergy, we can embed various levels of technology
according to each trial´ needs, from eTMFs that count on
machine learning to automate document filling to high-tech
risk-based study execution solutions that cave save up to
40% of monitoring costs.
What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs
who aspire to venture into the CRO space?
Setting yourself to be able to act as a partner to companies
that operate in one of the most regulated environments out
there is no easy task; people should know. The most
important point I would highlight to those considering
entering this space is: to make sure the core values which
you believe will set our company apart from other players
are genuinely embedded in daily operations. All the rest is
easily available to anyone else. In an expensive and
complex market such as clinical development, the cost is
certainly not part of the top three decision factors for most
companies as they know how much more expensive it could
be to have an entire clinical trial failing due to operational
flaws compared to paying a bit more to have a partner who
can deliver high standards by their side.
How do you envision scaling your organization's
operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond?
We have a clear view when it comes down to our growth
expectations. Although the demand is very high, we have
no interest in growing at any cost as we know the dangers
that come with that. We suffer no external pressure to
deliver better financial results every quarter as a privately
held company. That allows us to entirely focus on customer
satisfaction based on high-quality and high-performance
output as key drivers. We have been growing steadily, and
we plan to keep a close eye on the balance between growth
and excellence.
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Healthcare is a complex web of interactions and
engagements with lots of traditional involvements
between patients, providers, payers, and pharma.
However, change is in the air, especially in orthopedics,
with digital transformation, digital innovation, and patient-
focused models.
Innovation is desperately needed in all areas of healthcare.
Still, bigfoot approaches that disregard existing patient and
clinical care delivery models rather than trying to transform
them will ultimately result in minimal success. Learning
from their own past failures, as well as the failures of other
big tech, will go a long way towards ensuring continued
innovation and growth in orthopedic medicine.
Innovation is no longer an idea for healthcare and life
sciences but a way forward, as written by Michigan State
University's Professor Joe Tidd and John R. Bessant, with
additional research published in the International Journal of
Health Policy and Management. Their research focused on
the Four Ps of driving healthcare innovation and patient-
centric models.
Ÿ Paradigm
Ÿ Positioning
Ÿ Process
Ÿ Product
The paradigm shift: Go beyond the traditional, follow the
patient!
For pharma and providers' care settings, like acute, post-
acute/assisted living facilities, they need to be hyper-
focused on personalization of data collection,
personalization of care delivery models and focus on where
the patient is, which is outside the traditional clinical
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Arti Bedi Pullins is a strategic, data-driven
entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in
business strategy and deployment, product
innovation and digital marketing. Her passion
sits at the intersection of customer-based
design-thinking, innovative technology, and
market data/research.
Arti has architected and led over a dozen
technology businesses towards successful
growth, applied market, customer, and product
research data to the development of in-market
execution, and worked on minimizing risk and
unnecessary costs by understanding how
consumers' emotions, interactions, cultural and
socio-economic demographics impact brand
engagement and adoption.
In 2017, Arti founded Pundit Consultantz, a
healthcare innovation and creative services
design consultancy. Pundit Consultantz is the
change agent and problem solver for
healthcare and life sciences clients.
The firm works exclusively with healthcare
companies to incubate, innovate, and digitally
transform. Pundit Consultantz helps
businesses, institutions and developers in
healthcare and life sciences technology
ideate and then build products and services
with real-world applications to produce
better outcomes. The company also has
creative design services that execute
practical go-to-market strategies for
clients' products and services.
Prior to founding her business
consultancy, Arti held senior
leadership roles with SessionM,
Glassdoor and CareerBuilder.com.
She earned an MBA from the
Kellogg School of Management at
Northwestern University and a
bachelor's degree in business
communication from Michigan
State University. In addition to
English, Arti is fluent in Hindi and
Punjabi.
ARTI BEDI PULLINS
About the Author
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setting. Big tech and MedTech have proven again and
again how industries outside of healthcare are meeting
where the consumer, in this case, the patient is.
Patients no longer need to a physical facility to achieve
personal care but rather demand convenience, comfort,
accessibility, and affordability, all driven by innovations.
Smart TVs are owned by 67 per cent of adults age 50 and
older, 35percent own home assistants, 30 per cent owned
wearables and 23 per cent owned smart home technology,
as described in Trends Affecting Technology Adoption in
Post-Acute and Senior Care. Meeting the patient in their
homes and in virtual care settings by delivering hybrid
patient-centric models will further help deliver the
underlying value chain.
Process: To focus and partner
Patient care is not easy. Its complexity runs from the
collection of personalized health data, a growing yet
controversial trend, to the utilization of that data to deliver
better outcomes. Learning from the manufacturing, tech,
and supply chain industries in implementing automation,
business processes, and technical data integrations, can all
further optimize patient care. Healthcare's hospital-at-home
programs, driven by Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins and life
sciences growth towards decentralized clinical trial models,
as published by McKinsey & Company and accepted by top
pharma like Jansen and Pfizer, are all examples of
ownership to drive better outcomes.
Digital clinics, telemedicine, decentralized data collection,
and in-home and hybrid care models are proving to be cost-
effective and accessible solutions to solving complex
chronic diseases and the daily care and consumerization of
healthcare.
Position: Be patient-focused and personalized care-
obsessed
Any big tech company, like Amazon, Uber, Microsoft,
Apple, and Facebook, are obsessed with their products or
service's being positioned based on their customer needs
and wants, sometimes before they even know they need it!
Healthcare, pharma-based drugs, and therapy development
should be no different.
Consumer/patient care, engagement and personalized data
transparency needs to be looked at from a complete patient
care journey perspective and all parts of the healthcare
ecosystem. As Patrick McGill shared at HIMSS, at
Community Health Network, the patient is at the center of
the entire systems practice. There is no one owner of patient
experience; everybody is hyper-focused on creating a better
patient experience and ultimately better patient outcomes.
Product: Innovating to drive better health
Creating better results and outcomes for patients is
ultimately what everyone within the healthcare ecosystem
is after.
For orthopedic technology and orthopedic medicine, the
advancement in sensor, MedTech and artificial intelligence
is one of the driver's delivering success. Just look at how
smart orthopedic implants are having their moment (page
14-17) published in MedTech strategist.
MedTech and medical manufacturers are embedding smart
sensor technology and utilizing real-world evidence to learn
and improve their product outcomes during and after a
surgical procedure, dramatically shortening patients' post-
surgery recovery times.
Whether healthcare and life sciences choose to implement
the 4- Ps or incorporate a different process, steady and
constant learning from complementary industries and
verticals will fuel innovation and patient-centric models.
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The Impact of
on the
CRO Market
CRO Market
echnology is changing the health world's future,
Twhile future technology is reshaping the present
world of health. Already emerging from the
turbulent oceans of changing times are novel ways of
carrying out or performing preclinical research and
conducting trials.
Many giant Clinical or Contract Research Organizations
(CROs) have already started integrating their preclinical
research, testing, and trials with not only digital, virtual,
and remote technologies but are also implementing
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, and Machine
Learning (ML) technologies to efficiently conduct, perform,
or carry out such experiments in increasingly enhanced
environments.
The process of developing a medicinal product is a long
one, where there are many subprocesses like idea or
concept generation, framing, discovering and developing
that idea further, then the pre-clinical research stage then
comes to the clinical trial stage, and finally, the FDA
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assessment and review stage which approves or disapproves
the product based on its criteria.
The Power of Modern Tech
Although all these subprocesses are equally important, the
stage where pre-clinical research is conducted is the most
crucial one as the prospective product ideas or concepts
have a strong chance of failing. This is where preclinical
CROs play a very major role in opting for advanced
technologies so they could research till the last element of
each idea and concept from every possible angle, and find
out the possibilities, and probabilities of the success and the
failure of the drug or medicine in development.
Modern technologies are not only giving more power to the
preclinical CROs to look at the preclinical trial process with
a holistic view increasing the probability of the drug or
medicine moving to the further stage but are also helping
them in saving huge costs.
Let us look in detail at these reasons and dig ourselves
deeper to gain a broader perspective.
A Holistic Tech Perspective
Advance Technological Implementation lowers the
Uncertainty of the preclinical experiments by streamlining
and optimizing detailed data collection, easing down the
pre-clinical trials' subject selection, decreasing the time
duration of research, and reducing financial costs. Research,
data collection, test subject selection and continuous
analysis are an integral part of drug research and medicine
development. However, with increasing intricacy in the
entire process, navigating through the continuous stream of
incoming data gets impossible for the human researcher.
This is where advanced technologies like automation, AI,
cloud computing, Big Data Analysis, ML, etc. provide not
only monitoring, tracing, tracking, and collecting data but
also deep and machine learning of the recorded data to offer
precise analysis, interpretation, flow, pattern while
matching the samples with earlier available ones.
Live COVID-19 Example
It is because of using such novel technologies that in just a
year and a half, CROs across the world could come up with
more than a dozen coronavirus vaccines including Serum
Institute of India's COVOVAX which has been developed
through three trials in one country and approved in five
countries, COVISHIELD (Oxford AstraZeneca
Formulation) developed through four trials in one country
and approved in 49 countries; Novavax's NUVAXOVID
which has been developed through 17 trials in 13 countries
and approved in 38 countries; Oxford/AstraZeneca's
VAXZEVRIA developed through 66 clinical trials in 31
countries and approved in 140 countries; and so on and so
forth.
Due to this rapid vaccine development, according to The
New York Times' COVID vaccine tracker, as of July 2022
over 5.23 billion people or 68.2% of the world population
have received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Futuristic Technologies is the Future
Clinical trial researchers also get benefitted by gaining
actionable insights into the detailed reports created by using
digital technologies. For example, AI and ML are now
widely used in the most appropriate sample group selection
that responds more to the pre-clinical tests and trials.
The first major advantage of using these techs is the
automated cellular level selection, data generation and
analysis. These futuristic technologies modern cell-based
selection offers an early-stage issue identification and
problem detection with potential drug developments and
testing. It aids in reducing sample wastage, time, and effort,
and streamlines the entire process of research and
development. For example, data samples collected during
the research using AI can also be utilized for the most
suitable patient matching during the clinical trials testing
process.
Preclinical image, graphics, and sample matching and
analysis process automation are also feasible using techs
such as AI and ML. CROs are now increasingly using these
technologies for automated testing sample analysis,
identification of molecular compounds, and analyse patterns
for drug discovery.
For Example, AI is now being used by the Institute of
Cancer Research for making predictions regarding cancer
drugs' novel prospects and performing repetitive tasks like
research record up-gradation and data extraction. Likewise,
scientists have successfully developed Eve, an AI Robot to
help researchers in speeding up the drug discovery process.
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PharSafer®
Committed to Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety
With the increasing demand for newer and safer
pharmaceutical products, Contract Research
Organizations, (CROs), have rapidly become a
force in drug development and clinical trial recruitments
and into the post-marketing safety arena. To highlight one
such company, PharSafer®, has quietly and swiftly
innovated and developed robust systems as its primary
route to provide the best clinical research for drug
development Companies large and small.
The company offers a breadth of vigilance operations (The
A – Z for Pharmacovigilance) for its clients, ranging from
Pharmacovigilance to Cosmetovigilance, Materiovigilance,
Advanced Therapy/Biologics vigilance, Vaccine safety,
Nutrivigilance, and Veterinary Pharmacovigilance.
In addition to assisting the clients with audit preparedness
through its 'White Gloves Audit Group', PharSafer® offers
global medical services and industry training courses for
fellow industry and regulatory professionals from
introductory through to intermediate and advanced levels
on wide-ranging topics.
We at Insights Care got an opportunity to interview
PharSafer®'s, Director, CEO, and Owner, Dr Graeme
Ladds. He shared some valuable facts about the company
showcasing the fundamentals of being one of the prominent
companies in the CRO healthcare sector.
Below are the highlights:
Please brief our audience about your company, its USPs,
and how it is positioned as a reliable name in the CRO
sector?
Founded in 2003 by Dr Graeme Ladds, PharSafer® is an
International Contract Research Organisation (CRO)
specializing in Global Clinical and Post Marketing Drug
Safety and Medical Services, with a wealth of varied
experience in Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and
Medical Information – and the different, numerous and
extensive legal safety or medical obligations for license
holders and clinical sponsors to comply with.
Through our five core business sectors- Pharmacovigilance,
Training, Audits, Medical Affairs, and Informatics, our
clients always know who they can speak to for any request.
They do not just get a provider – they get a partner offering
advice and expertise to develop their drug safety systems
cost-effectively and compliantly.
Please shed some light on your offerings and how they
impact the CRO industry and your clients. How your
company provides research services to various
organizations?
In our people and our processes, we have a first-class
business and deliver a service to match. We ensure all
operations and communications are conducted with full
transparency with our clients to ensure a synergized
approach and deliver on our promise towards providing
In our people
and our processes,
we have a first-class
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With a first degree in Biochemistry
and Pharmacology and a PhD focusing
on drug metabolism and
Pharmacokinetics Graeme has worked in the
areas of Drug Safety and Medical services for
over 30 years.
Graeme has been working as Head of Global
Pharmacovigilance for a multi-national innovator
Company, and EU QP PV for many of the top ten Pharma
Companies, and small Pharma and has been CEO for the
last 19 years for PharSafer®.
Graeme is also a member of the DIA; TOPRA; RQA, and the
Institute of Directors and PIPA and has helped small start-up
Companies (Biotech; Medical Devices; Biologics; Generics; Herbal; OTC) in
their planning, growth and has been involved in Company and product acquisitions, due diligence activities
for product in-licensing and marketing and development strategies with partner and distributor Companies.
Graeme has been involved in many drug development programs, taking products from the bench to market
in a wide range of therapeutic areas.
Graeme also has an additional role as Research & Development Director for products to be developed for
global launches.
His 31-year journey in drug safety, where there was little structure to be trained in pharmacovigilance or
availability for finding out the global regulations, fueled his desire to ensure there would be an extensive
training program for all the PharSafer® people to promote and simplify their drug safety careers. This has
resulted in many staff now has remained with the Company for over ten years, providing Company stability
and in-depth expertise. Additionally, to aid all drug safety professionals in their careers the PharSafer®
sister Company SaPhar has performed training all over the world with varied bespoke and formatted training
courses for all levels of experience since 2003.
Strategic and
Critical Leadership
Dr Graeme Ladds
Director, CEO, Owner
PharSafer®
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enhanced global patient safety, all while operating our
Quality Management System to ensure both compliance
and consistency.
Through our journey, over time, we have acquired
additional expertise in advising and informing our wide-
ranging client base of the best possible solutions within an
extremely complex, ever-expanding, and a global industry
where regulations continuously change.
Our global expertise comes from our highly skilled team of
Physicians, PhDs, MSc scientists, and Pharmacists with
many years of experience in pharmacovigilance and
medical services. We apply this experience in collaboration
with other skilled members of our PharSafer® family – to
not only deliver a first-class service for our clients but to
continually research, develop and implement innovative
processes, procedures and products for the benefit and
advancement of the wider industry.
We achieve this, working together with our sister company
– SaPhar Training® – PharSafer® trains client Companies,
runs bespoke training courses for large and small Pharma,
ensures the highest training standards for PharSafer®
personnel, and continuously seeks new and innovative ways
to provide added value for our clients, going above and
beyond expectations and optimizing our many detailed
processes and procedures involved with clinical and post-
marketing drug safety and medical affairs.
What are the core values upon which your organization
is built? What is the vision and mission of your
organization?
Overall, our mission is to keep each and every one of our
clients compliant as the international environment evolves
leading them through the global maze that is drug safety
regulation, with exceptional quality of service forever at the
forefront of our thoughts.
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  • 1. VOL 05 ISSUE 04 Amalgamation of Innovations and Credibility Redefining Advancements Role of CROs in Shaping the Future of Clinical Research Industry Sagacity The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Pre-Clinical CRO Market Most Innovative CROs Watch in2022 to Prof Yves Henrotin Founder and Executive President Artialis
  • 4. Editor’s Note uring the COVID-19 pandemic, if clinicians, Dhealthcare service-providing staff, nurses, and doctors were battling at the forefront, then the Clinical Research Organizations (CROs) have been working hard in the background to develop effective vaccines to fight this novel coronavirus. With millions of cases emerging every day globally, the demand for quick vaccination raised the expectations from the CROs to rise to the occasion and intensify their vaccine research, clinical trials, testing and developmental efforts, which they did in a record time. Because of their tremendous efforts, global unit came up with nearly a dozen vaccines already being deployed worldwide, with over sixty-eight per cent global population vaccinated at least once. These are tremendous achievements while these CROs are further advancing their forces to find more possible ways CROs Futuristic Leap Into A Healthier Tomorrow thro and The Rep CRO duri The driv incr regu in th mar To g futu this Wat inno assi this
  • 5. w through novel technologies to mitigate the virus spreading and boost the global population's immunity further. The momentum will be carried forward as predicted by the Reportlinker's report. According to the report, the global CRO market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 10.06% during 2022-26 and reach $40 billion by the end of 2026. The report further states that the market will be further driven by the growing biopharmaceutical industry, increased global R&D expenditure and investment, regulations of clinical trials, and technological innovations in the healthcare industry, particularly in the CRO end-user market segment and geographical landscape. To grasp these very positive scenarios for the present and future of the CRO industry, Insights Care's team unveiled this exclusive edition of the '10 Most Innovative CROs To Watch In 2022.' These ten CROs are among the disruptive innovators when it comes to clinical trials, R&D, and assisting the vaccine development drive. Also included in this edition are two trendy articles our in-house editorial team curated to give you a holistic view of the entire scenario. Flip through the following pages and witness CROs' futuristic leap into a healthier tomorrow; enjoy! - Anish Miller
  • 6. 18 Role of CROs in Shaping the Future of Clinical Research Redefining Advancements 32 08 The Impact of Emerging Technologies on the Pre-Clinical CRO Market Industry Sagacity Cover Story Articles C O N T E N T S Amalgamation of Innovations and Credibility Artialis B A
  • 7. 14 Bionical Emas Advocators of Development and Innovation 22 Clinergy Health Research Providing Synergic Solutions for win-win Outcomes 36 PharSafer® Committed to Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety Providing with a Heart that Cares Advancing Innovation and Patient-Centric Models CXO 26
  • 8. Co-designer Paul Belin Art & Picture Editor Sonia, Mrunalinee Art & Design Head Editor-in-Chief Pooja Bansal Managing Editor Abhishaj Sajeev Senior Editor Anish Miller Visualiser David King Rohil Shinganapurkar Circulation Manager Tanaji Research Analyst Eric Smith Sarah Wilson, John Smith, Alex Vincent Business Development Executives Amy Jones Business Development Manager Sales Executives Kelli, Bill, Anna SME-SMO Executives Atul, Gemson Digital Marketing Manager Alina Sege Technical Consultants David, Robert Technical Head Jacob Smile Marketing Manager John Smith Assistant Technical Head Amar Sawant Assistant Digital Marketing Manager Renuka Kulkarni Copyright © 2022 Insights Success Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd., All rights reserved. The content and images used in this magazine should not be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from Insights success. Reprint rights remain solely with Insights Success Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. Insights Care is powered by Insights Success Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. May, 2022 Follow us on : www.facebook.com/InsightsCare/ https://twitter.com/Insightscare Insights Success Media Tech LLC 555 Metro Place North, Suite 100, Dublin, OH 43017, United States Phone - 302-319-9947 Email: info@insightscare.com For Subscription: www.insightscare.com Insights Success Media and Technology Pvt. Ltd. Office No. 22, Rainbow Plaza, Shivar Chowk, Pimple Saudagar, Pune, Maharashtra 411017 Phone - India: 7410033802, 74100058552 Email: info@insightscare.com For Subscription: www.insightscare.com Assisting Editors Trishika, Vinayak sales@insightscare.com Corporate Offices: N L
  • 9. ed or td. Description Featuring Artialis SA Prof Yves Henrotin, Founder and Executive President Artialis provides scientific expertise, R&D support services, and tools for the evaluation of clinical, structural, and biological impact of a compound on musculoskeletal health. Biomapas Audrius Sveikata, CEO A complete spectrum of Clinical Research, Regulatory Affairs, Pharmacovigilance, and Medical Information services across Europe, CIS, EAEU and MENA regions. Bionical Emas Jonathan Waring-Hughes, CEO Clinergy Health Research Tiago M D da Silva, Managing Director CLINERGY is a Collaborative Research Organization offering tailored solutions to drive operational excellence by addressing key pain points generally overlooked by the traditional outsourcing model, helping health innovation reaching patients faster. NDA Regulatory Science (NDA Group) Christine Lind, Vice President Commercial NDA’s sole commitment is to make sure that the best possible medicines reach the market without unnecessary delay and ensuring that they remain there for as long as they benefit the patients. Catherine Lund, Director OnQ Research was founded more than ten years ago as a monitoring consultancy. It has since evolved into a full service Contract Research Organization. OnQ Research Thomas Ogorka, CEO A leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) designed to navigate the complexity of trials in orphan indications. It accelerates the clinical development of orphan drugs and facilitates patient access to urgently needed new treatments for rare conditions. P.R.I.S.M.A.-CRO GmbH Gernot Cremer, MD PharSafer Dr Graeme Ladds, Director, CEO and Owner PharSafer provides tailored solutions to act as a complete pharmacovigilance, cosmetovigilance and medical services department. Bionical Emas is a Clinical Research Organization (CRO) which combines Clinical Development, Early Access Program (EAP) and Clinical Trial Supply (CTS) services to deliver a unique, seamless approach to bring life-changing medicines around the world. P.R.I.S.M.A. is a German Clinical Research Organization (CRO) and dedicated to support the European portion of the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Link Medical Research Ola Gudmundsen, CEO LINK Medical is a full-service Nordic CRO providing product development services for the pharmaceutical and medical device industries across Northern Europe. Orphan Reach Company Name 10 Most Innovative CRO's To Watch In 2022
  • 10. COVER Story Prof Yves Henrotin Founder and Executive President Artialis
  • 11. Amalgamation of Innovations and Credibility Artiali i a al -i -on partner fro preclinica t clinica studie . 10 Most Innovative CROs To Watch In 2022
  • 12. O ver the last few decades, CROs have evolved into more than just a simple outsourced resource in the pharmaceutical sector. They are specialists in the field, active participants in clinical trials, and significant contributors to the industry's success. The COVID-19 pandemic has spotlighted the pharmaceutical sector, piquing public interest in the clinical development process. It is widely acknowledged that without the assistance of CROs, the industry's most recent advancements and clinical accomplishments during the pandemic would not have been conceivable. CROs swiftly adopt new technology, allowing them to deliver unique insights and recommendations by finding new and innovative methods to use advanced tools and tailoring them to each sponsor's needs to ensure optimal clinical trial performance. Some CRDOs even have their distinct services. This is where comes into the Artialis spotlight. Artialis offers preclinical, clinical and biotesting services to support product development from research to post- marketing authorization stages and is an expert in musculoskeletal disorders (bone, cartilage, muscle, tendon, and ligament), inflammatory conditions, and healthy aging. The company supports its clients (from Pharma, Biotech and Food supplement industries) during all stages of their product development plan. Under the leadership of Prof Yves Henrotin, Founder and Executive President, Artialis provides tailor-made clinical trial solutions, including innovative endpoints, such as soluble biomarkers, medical imaging (X-ray, MRI), and gait and motion analyses. This association of preclinical and clinical expertise reinforces the translational value of each study. The Legacy Artialis is a CRDO, Contract Research and Development Organization, located in Belgium. From preclinical studies to post-marketing clinical trials, Artialis provides regulatory and scientific expertise, R&D support services, and tools to evaluate compounds' clinical, structural, and biological impact. Artialis offers state-of-the-art study design and management of in vitro and in vivo preclinical studies, including gold- standard endpoints (macroscopy, histology) and innovative tools of evaluation, such as soluble biomarkers, imaging, pain, and gait and motion analyses. In-vitro, Artialis has developed cell culture models (chondrocytes, synoviocytes, muscles, bone and inflammatory cells) to study the cytotoxicity, the catabolic and anabolic effects, the anti-inflammatory properties, and the mode of action of candidates. Artialis also offers an extensive portfolio of exclusive and innovative biomarkers and specializes in selecting and validating external ELISA kits. In addition, the company can design and develop specific on-demand biomarkers supporting each step of the client's product development. Although Artialis is specialized in MSK field and aging related diseases, it is also active in other domains like gastroenterology and infectiology. Regarding clinical trials, among all that have been managed by Artialis, a recent one has suited a lot of interest and shows major and positive results of food supplement for COVID 19 hospitalized patients: Link on yahoo.com: New clinical trial shows the major and positive effect of food supplement in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (yahoo.com) Link on prnewswire: A new clinical trial shows the major and positive effects of food supplements in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 (prnewswire.co.uk) Artiali ha hig pertis i th developmen of solubl biomarker t monitor produc efficac i animal an human . Sign Two rese the whi und oste Reg mai tissu The and and The orga follo stan acti Con All from prec Qua Arti "ben com Dev The dev auth com vari vivo fulfi faci dev effic This qua com on o
  • 13. and cal gait ch t D cal, ment - ve , ic nd d . als, ne and ts r Significant Enrichment Two scientific societies have significantly improved clinical research on osteoarthritis and cartilage regeneration. It is the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI), which is the leading medical society for advancing the understanding, early detection, treatment, and prevention of osteoarthritis (OA), and the International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation (ICRS), which is the main forum for international collaboration in cartilaginous tissue research. They have produced a series of guidelines for the design and conduct of clinical trials and for assessing tissue lesion and cartilage repair in animal models. These guidelines are helpful for clinical research organizations active in the rheumatological field. The follow-up of those guidelines allows a better standardization of the preclinical and clinical research activities. Continuum of Quality Assured Services All Articles activities are based on high-quality standards: from ISO certifications to international guidelines, from preclinical to manufacturing, skilfully integrated by the Quality assurance officer. Artialis is a unique CRO as it can support products from "bench to bedside" in all medical fields. Indeed, the company recently became a CRDO, 'Contract Research and Development Organization.' The company proposes services to support product development from research to post-marketing authorization stages with a team of experts ensuring a complete and personalized follow-up. Artialis offers a variety of services, from preclinical stages (in vitro and in vivo) to clinical stages, including biotesting services to fulfill the requirements of a development plan in the same facility. Most notably, Artialis has high expertise in the development of soluble biomarkers to monitor product efficacy in animals and humans. This can be immunoassays or mass spectrometry analysis to quantify drug targets in any biological fluid. Artialis team is comprised of Ph.Ds. Its team of experts in the field is keen on offering the best services on the market.
  • 14. Artialis offers a large panel of cell culture and preclinical models (in vivo) for studying innovative treatments. Importantly, Artialis owns a high technological platform to evaluate the efficacy of treatments on pain and mobility during in vivo studies. Artialis helps you design your research and development plan in line with the product positioning. Artialis is unique as it develops biological analysis allowing it to monitor product efficacy during all stages of its development. Furthermore, the company offers a translational approach from cells to patients while respecting the highest quality standards and regulatory requests. Pearls of Wisdom Sharing his opinions on how the adoption of modern technologies like AI and ML is impacting the CRO industry, Prof Yves Henrotin said, "Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are part of our strategic development plan." "We are a member of a large European consortium in which AI and ML are used to develop an algorithm to identify patient phenotype and predict disease development and treatment responses. We are also looking for a partnership to co-develop an algorithm predictive of subjects' responses to placebo or to simulate patient cohorts. These two areas are included in our strategic plan and constitute a priority for our company." Ar alis is a human-size company with sixteen employees, each an expert in their field of work. The execu ve commi ee is comprised of four people bestowed below: Prof Yves Henro n: Founder, Chairman of the Board, and President Prof Yves Henro n is a professor of Pathology, Physical Therapy, and Rehabilita on and Director of the musculoSKeletal Innova ve research Lab (mSKIL, www.mskil.be) at the University of Liège (Belgium). He is the ‘Head of the Physical Therapy and Rehabilita on Department’ at the Princess Paola Hospital (Vivalia, Belgium), an ac ve member of the Osteoarthri s Research Society Interna onal (OARSI), the French Society of Rheumatology, the Interna onal Car lage Repair Society (ICRS), and the European Viscosupplementa on Consensus Group (EUROVISCO). He is also the founder and President of The Osteoarthri s Founda on (www.osteoarthri s founda on.eu) Dr Bérénice Costes: Chief Opera ng Officer Dr Bérénice comprehends ten years of experience in academic research and more than 12 years of experience in the life science industry. She is a specialist in clinical research with exper se in musculoskeletal and age-related disorders. Dr Melanie Uebelhoer: Chief Scien fic Officer With 14 years of experience in academic research and two years of industry experience in a CRO, Dr Melanie is a specialist in R&D ac vi es with exper se in managing large team-driven research projects and scien fic communica on. Dr Sandra Pietri: Chief Business Officer Dr Sandra is a specialist in non-clinical and R&D ac vi es with exper se in orthopedics and musculoskeletal disorders. She comprehends eight years of experience in academic research and eleven years of industry experience in a Cell therapy company. Exhibiting Excellence "We clin us to the part rapi recr Tim we c In p func key spec imm larg prec anal This repa trea one tech Rec anal acti Wo Adv hea goo allo prey "Th estim pha dev "To goo road Hen
  • 15. l to wing try, hich p nses "We have also just completed the digitalization of our clinical and preclinical activities. This achievement allows us to save time, limit data transcription errors, and improve the quality of our services. In collaboration with a local partner, we have recently developed an application allowing rapid screening of patients and thus accelerating recruitment. Time is important for our customers, and we do everything we can to reduce the duration of clinical studies." In preclinical, AI is used routinely to quantify structural and functional parameters. For structural changes, histology is a key parameter; AI helps rapidly and accurately quantify specific staining (standard histology) or targets (using immunofluorescence) and allows to gain time and quantify larger regions of interest. For functional evaluation in preclinical, AI is used for the Digital Weight Bearing analysis and during the in-life phase of animals. This analysis allows one to register the animal weight repartition on the four paws and clearly identify the treatment efficacy on this parameter in OA models. Finally, one of Artialis commitments is to keep a watch on technologies allowing tissues and biological analysis. Recently, the organization has managed proteomics analyses of many sera to identify drug targets, mode of action of the drug and identify companion biomarkers. Words of Inspiration Advising the budding aspirants willing to venture into the healthcare niche, Prof Yves Henrotin shared, "To have a good prototype. Avoid jumping in too quickly. This will allow you to maintain control of your project and not fall prey to financial predators." "Think carefully about your development plan and correctly estimate the duration and costs of the different development phases. To find enough funds to support product development and a good financial or industrial partner." "To be determined, courageous and patient and to find a good partner to accompany you on this long and winding road. This is exactly the mission of Artialis." - Prof Yves Henrotin. Artiali offer larg pane of cel cultur an preclinica model (i viv ) for studyin innovativ treatment . Embracing the Future Roadmap The executive team plans to multiform the MSK business with gastroenterology. In this way, Artialis expects to double its turnover in 2025. The company envisions having an affiliate office in strategic countries to extend its operation worldwide. Recognition of Achievements Artialis has been listed amongst the TOP 10 Bioanalytical services companies in Europe in 2021 by Life Sciences Review. Artialis is listed on ICH GCP as a Clinical Research organization. Artialis is accredited "Crédit Impôt Recherche" and "Crédit Impôt Innovation" allowing French companies to finance their research and development and product development activities. Artialis is ISO 9001 compliant, guaranteeing the quality processes and the satisfaction of its customers. Artialis' animal facility is accredited AAALAC. That means that Artialis complies with the standards for humane treatment of animals used in research and testing.
  • 16. Bionical Emas Advocators of Development and Innova on ith rapid advancements in technologies Walongside the ever-increasing need for drug development, Contract Research Organizations (CROs), have significantly influenced the landscape of biotech and pharma development. They are keeping up the pace to provide a cutting-edge science to facilitate the growing needs of the field. Furthering this ever-increasing need to design developmental strategies, Bionical Emas provides services that cater to the client's drug and pharma development needs. Being a global Contract Research Organization, what makes the company unique is that it combines clinical development, early access program, and clinical trial supply capabilities to deliver an exceptional, seamless service for its international pharma and biotech clients. Their wide range of services enables them to maximize access and generate evidence at every point along the drug development pathway. This means they can simultaneously address the immediate and future needs of patients. Standing as a guiding light to this innovative path is Jonathan Waring-Hughes, as its Chief Executive Officer. An Exemplary Leadership Jonathan took on the role of Bionical Emas, CEO in 2018 and is responsible for the overall running and performance of the business globally. Since joining the company in 2013, he has been an integral part and founding member of the organization. He is extremely passionate and driven by the company's mission of pioneering the way life-changing medicines are developed and accessed for patients around the world. He initially founded and headed up the Clinical Trial Supply (CTS) division in the UK before spending time in the US setting up Bionical Emas Inc. and offering services for the US market. He has played an essential role in creating and driving the global commercial and operational strategy which has seen the business grow from 15 people in 2013 to over 200 in 2022, with operations across the US, EU, UK, and Australasia. Jonathan is a remarkably young CEO, proving that success in running a business doesn't have a direct correlation with a specific profile or age group. His talent, passion, and aspiration to make a positive difference were recognised by the Board of Directors as the key attributes of a great leader. His successful tenure in the role is proof that innovative thinking in a business context, particularly at the People level, can pay-off. Jonathan manages Bionical Emas under the same approach, which results in a highly diverse and inclusive company, where career progression is a reality and women in senior leadership roles is the norm. Under his exemplary leadership, the company operates on fully integrated services. Let us have a look at them. The Three Core Business Units Bionical Emas operates as a fully integrated services business based around three core business units, which are made up of a wide range of product and service lines. Clinical Development The company runs global Phase I to Phase IV clinical trials for its international pharma and biotech clients and has an oncology and rare disease therapeutic focus. In addition, throughout the pandemic, it has also been heavily involved in the running of COVID-19 studies. Bionical Emas implement traditional and decentralized clinical trial models, utilizing its global in-house teams of clinical development professionals and innovative technologies to pioneer the way medicines are developed for patients around the world. Early Access Programs (EAP) Bionical Emas EAP is the only specialist Early Access Program (EAP) partner to harness the full power of an May 2022 14|www.insightscare.com 10 Most Innovative CROs To Watch In 2022
  • 17. s nal le US, ess ith by der. er his re als n ed of d 022 022 The company has seen a huge movement toward hybrid clinical trials, pu ng the pa ent's comfort first and mee ng pa ents where they are. Jonathan Waring- Hughes CEO Bionical Emas
  • 18. established and successful Contract Research Organization. A range of in-house services perfectly complements its global EAP experience in oncology and rare disease areas. The company puts the patient at the heart of everything it does. The goal of the company is to help current and future generations by providing timely and appropriate treatment access to patients in desperate need. Clinical Trial Supply (CTS) Bionical Emas provides unrivaled access to medicines and ancillaries for use in clinical trials. It offers customized end- to-end supply solutions for its international pharma and biotech customer base. The global network of manufacturer partnerships enables the company to deliver sustainable and reliable access to medicines and ancillaries for clinical trial sponsors, healthcare professionals, and patients globally. Delivering Excellent Services through its Driven Mission The mission of Bionical Emas is to pioneer the way life-changing medicines are developed and accessed for patients around the world. It is the people of Bionical Emas that truly differentiate them, and their focus on delivering excellence across their suite of services that leads to long-term partnerships with its broad base of clients, HCP's, and patients. Jonathan states, "we are bold, creative, and driven by the fact we are changing patients' lives." Adoption of Modern Technologies According to Jonathan, "Modern technologies like blockchain, sensing technologies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Machine Learning (ML) are having a huge impact on the way the sector is operating." He believes that these technologies are helping to improve agility, quality, and patient adherence and fundamentally reducing the cost of running clinical studies but keeping data fully secure. These technologies are also helping clinical trial activities to be shifted closer to the patient. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced the sector to increase the adoption of these technologies significantly. The company has seen a huge movement toward hybrid clinical trials, putting the patient's comfort first and meeting patients where they are. Bionical Emas has made a significant investment in technologies, so it can meet the sponsor's needs in running clinical studies. The company is using Machine Learning (ML) to review data captured from sites and identify any trends and/or anomalies to optimize the digital clinical trial pathway. Jonathan asserts, "We are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to speed up recruitment and feasibility process, minimizing manual and repetitive tasks and fundamentally improving patient adherence." He further states that using natural language processing to automatically identify adverse events improves the quality of service being provided to its sponsors. The company has partnered with some leading technology companies to help the company provide decentralized clinical trials, giving it tools like eCOA/ePRO and eConsent to bring these activities to patients. A Note to Remember When addressing the budding entrepreneurs who wish to progress in the CRO space, Jonathan asserts, "I would say that creating a truly differentiated offering is critical for anyone looking to venture into the space. The sector is awash with CROs of many shapes and sizes, so it is important to find a niche that enables you to differentiate against your competitors. Over the coming years, I believe the focus will continue to be on further enhancing the patient experience through implementing innovative technologies and de- centralized/hybrid clinical trials." This will ultimately lead to faster and more diverse patient recruitment. Roadmap to the Future When talking about scaling the company's operations, Jonathan states, "Our strategy is to drive organic and acquisitive growth by developing and cross-selling our widening portfolio of services and capabilities into our international client base and by expanding our geographical footprint." Over the past few years, the company has made significant investments in the three core pillars of the business - people, infrastructure, and technology, which provide the company with a platform for operational and geographical expansion in 2022 and beyond. Jonathan believes that expanding its operations across the EU, US and JAPAC regions will be a major focus over 2022 and the coming years. May 2022 16|www.insightscare.com
  • 20. Clinical Research Role of CROs in Shaping the Future of Redefining Advancements May 2022 18|www.insightscare.com P rese scie forc min to e Trad retic 19|
  • 21. nts 022 ost COVID-19 pandemic world has completely Pchanged. The impact is most severe on the healthcare industry, especially on the clinical research and trials activities across the globe. The life science industry met unprecedented challenges which forced it to accelerate innovation, revamp its traditional mindset and embrace digital, virtual and online capabilities to ensure service continuance. Traditionally, the Industry was very cautious, slow and reticent in adopting digital and virtual clinical trial practices. It was comprehensible, evident and expected since many of the device-dependent diagnosis and treatment driven therapeutic areas added much more complexity to the digital, virtual, and remote offering evolution. Further, already established, proven, and existing decade old practices could not be abandoned or replaced or shifted to the digital, virtual or remote mode. This emerged as the major concern in the continuance of clinical research and trial niche, leading to almost 87% reduction in clinical research in England during the peak May 2022 19|www.insightscare.com
  • 22. time of first wave, as later found out by University College London study. Answering the question of avoidance, the industry opened up its mindset to accept the changing realities of clinical trials and shifting nature of clinical research in the post-pandemic world. The Changing Dynamics of Clinical Research Industry A rapidly growing industry, clinical research and trials is advancing due to new studies conducted in record numbers, ever-increasing patient participation expanding the clinical trial subject pool, numerous research sites of excellent quality, and a huge volume of successful trials over the years contributing to the expertise and values. Further development of technical modules and various modalities could improve clinical trial continuance and drive innovation and change to the higher level. However, all these modalities and modules must meet the standard criteria's and benchmarks of excellence so that the safety and security of the trials could be maintained or enhanced. This is where digital, virtual, and remote technologies could aid in optimizing various processes like site feasibility, pre-screening of patients, selection and clinical trial providence. By reviewing its own trends, changes, pressures, upheavals, successes and failures during the last two and a half years, the clinical trial industry managed to come up with more than a dozen coronavirus vaccines, thus pushing forward the innovation driven momentum and accelerating the renewed focus by considering key factors of success. Tech-Focus With many of the restrictions still being in effect, industry's digital mindedness is continuing. Simply, the industry has now fully adopted an entire decentralized virtual model attitude or a hybrid approach. In this new approach, organizations are compelled by the virus to continue with the clinical trial modalities which can offer at-home or remote testing facilities along with online practices and digital techniques. It will ensure clinical trial continuance for patients in a more comfortable, convenient, safe and secure manner. This will be done without any negative impact on the clinical investigators participation. During the last two and a half years remote pre-screening tests, e-consent practices and monitoring approval by patients and clinicians is on the rise. Since they are now established as preliminary benchmarks for future modalities, the industry could further leverage advancements in practices best suitable and feasible across the entire spectrum of life science industry to further drive safe, secure, flexible, patient-centric, comfortable, convenient, and efficient clinical research and trial modalities which will constantly keep improving the future performance of clinical trials. It will provide a primary foundation for the both hybrid modelled and fully virtual research and trial environments which will be completely equipped with precise tools, adequate techniques, robust and seamless infrastructure, a well-integrated ecosystem, and big-data analytical methodologies. Creating Streamlined Ecosystem When cross-functional entities work jointly, all the related stakeholders could participate in offering inputs, gaining information, and mutually assessing the developmental approaches to increase the result acceptance amidst the changing market dynamics. This is crucial when deriving digital, virtual and remote clinical trial effectiveness assessment. As they have easy access to patients, clinical investigators, sites, and sponsors, partners of Clinical Research Organizations(CROs) can promptly facilitate further enhancements in digital, virtual and remote clinical trials conductions success. Futuristic CROs Transforming the Clinical Research Before the pandemic happened not any expert would have been able to predict the future of healthcare industry forget of clinical research and trial industry. Although the pandemic is unprecedented in its devastation, one thing it did good is the way it diverted the entire progress path of sector world over. The possibilities, opportunities, and probabilities it has opened up is an unimaginably positive future in itself. The journey has merely started. We could push the boundaries of now established innovation further. This way we could explore some unexplored areas in the clinical trials with many CROs coming together and creating an upbeat ecosystem which will operate like an industry organ which will facilitate a future where globally innovative modalities could be established, enhanced and advanced so that whenever any unprecedented crisis situation will arrive in the future, the industry as a whole and the world as united will be able to combat. - Gaurav PR Wankhade May 2022 20|www.insightscare.com
  • 24. Clinergy Health Research Providing Synergic Solutions for win-win Outcomes he Healthcare industry usually faces problems to Tbridge the gap and solve the problems promptly, isn't it something that should be taken care of? Acknowledging these concerns of filling up the operational gaps and solving the problems in a timely manner, Clinergy Health Research has solutions to a variety of managerial issues while also providing a full revamp of all the health care processes. Having this problem-solving approach and abundant experience, Tiago M D da Silva, Managing Director, has scientific and management knowledge to enhance the operational experience and deliver superior results. In an interview with Insights Care, Mr. da Silva talks about Clinergy roles and how it is making a significant difference through its solutions into the healthcare niche. Please brief our audience about Clinergy Health Research, its USPs, and how it is positioned as a reliable name in the CRO sector? Clinergy is a CRO, but we always like to highlight that our "C" stands for "Collaborative" rather than "Contract," and, while for some people, that might look like a small detail, it makes all the difference. Being a Collaborative Research Organization means that our structure, processes, values, and people are fully focused on long-term value-adding partnerships rather than on short-term transactional relationships with clients. Such a mindset allows us to truly embrace our clients´ vision and ways of working. We act as an extension of their team, focusing on what matters to them while feeling empowered to "run the extra mile" to deliver operational excellence. This is now more important than ever as we see what has been happing to the CRO environment over the past two decades, with so many mergers and acquisitions resulting in huge CROs with inflated structures (and costs) that surely can still serve a set of substantial clients but no longer fits to serve small biotechs, pharma companies and healthcare start-ups given their very particular needs in terms of costs, flexibility, sense of urgency and attention. Unlike most CROs, our key driver is not related to short- term financial goals. However, long-term customer satisfaction and we bring that to daily life through the way we shape our KPIs, quality control strategies, and risk- based thinking in everything we do. Another element that brings our unique mindset to life is the fact that we have made a conscious decision not to have a business development/sales team. Whenever clients reach out to us looking for our services, they get to talk directly with our team of medical doctors, pharmacists, nurses, biologists who will be directly involved in the client´s clinical trial/project, most of whom have been on clinical development for 15, 20+ years. At the end of the day, science comes first in everything we do so that we can achieve our mission of "helping health innovation reaching patients faster." Shed some light on your offerings and how they impact the CRO industry as well as your clients. How your company provides research services to various organizations? The value we add as strategic partners to our clients is much more a result of our focus on the "how" rather than on the "what." We are equipped to provide end-to-end planning solutions, conducting and reporting clinical trials from site 10 Most Innova ve CROs To Watch In 2022 May 2022 22|www.insightscare.com 23|
  • 25. h es s g in y s to sts, - ay t s, s, om we ct n on ning ite 022 Our values are built upon elements that are key to delivering operational excellence with a high focus on the human aspects that make a difference in how we deliver it daily. feasibility and selection to project management, regulatory submissions, risk-based monitoring, data management, statistics, medical writing, among others. However, the means we utilize to deliver are essential. We are very meticulous when it comes down to understanding what delivery methods can fit each client better so that we can offer cost-effective solutions tailored to each of them without having to choose between cost and efficiency and without trying to push "over the top" solutions only to justify we have them. Tiago M D da Silva Managing Director Clinergy Health Research May 2022 23|www.insightscare.com
  • 26. While we rely on state-of-the-art tech solutions to plan and manage trials efficiently, our secret sauce is our people, no question about it. As we like to say, Clinergy is all about "humanology and technology for high-performance clinical development." What are the core values upon which Clinergy Health Research is built? What is the vision and mission of your organization? Our values are built upon elements that are key to delivering operational excellence with a high focus on the human aspects that are effective in how we deliver it daily. They are a sense of urgency, entrepreneurship, efficiency, caring for others, integrity, and passion. We all know how hard and costly it is to put health innovation into the hands of those who needed it, and, as scientists, there is nothing more disappointing than inefficiencies playing a role in that. Our mission of "helping health innovation reaching patients faster" reminds us that we should always be acting as catalysts so that we add real value to the innovation chain. Mr Tiago, please tell us about your professional tenure in the CRO Industry. Before founding CLINERGY, I have fulfilled different clinical operations roles, including leading the Global Clinical Research Operations for medicinal products within a UK-based FTSE 100 consumer health company. I had the pleasure to spend the last 17 years driving and delivering strategic projects for companies such as Novartis, Abbott, Eli Lilly, and Reckitt Benckiser, helping patients have access to value-adding medicines and health innovation across multiple geographic locations. Having lived and worked in both hemispheres on either side of the Atlantic, I have acquired an intimate appreciation of the cultural and regulatory differences that truly impact global clinical research. Being an experienced leader, share your opinion on how modern technologies have impacted the CRO sector. How has Clinergy Health Research incorporated such technologies into its daily operations? Clinical development has benefited a great deal from new tech solutions over the past 15 years, most notably over the past decade. CROs have a key role in making innovative solutions available to their clients by utilizing data-driven solutions to reduce operational complexity, make better- informed decisions around study design, monitor workforce assignment, and conduct remote trials. At Clinergy, we can embed various levels of technology according to each trial´ needs, from eTMFs that count on machine learning to automate document filling to high-tech risk-based study execution solutions that cave save up to 40% of monitoring costs. What would be your advice to budding entrepreneurs who aspire to venture into the CRO space? Setting yourself to be able to act as a partner to companies that operate in one of the most regulated environments out there is no easy task; people should know. The most important point I would highlight to those considering entering this space is: to make sure the core values which you believe will set our company apart from other players are genuinely embedded in daily operations. All the rest is easily available to anyone else. In an expensive and complex market such as clinical development, the cost is certainly not part of the top three decision factors for most companies as they know how much more expensive it could be to have an entire clinical trial failing due to operational flaws compared to paying a bit more to have a partner who can deliver high standards by their side. How do you envision scaling your organization's operations and offerings in 2022 and beyond? We have a clear view when it comes down to our growth expectations. Although the demand is very high, we have no interest in growing at any cost as we know the dangers that come with that. We suffer no external pressure to deliver better financial results every quarter as a privately held company. That allows us to entirely focus on customer satisfaction based on high-quality and high-performance output as key drivers. We have been growing steadily, and we plan to keep a close eye on the balance between growth and excellence. May 2022 24|www.insightscare.com
  • 28. Healthcare is a complex web of interactions and engagements with lots of traditional involvements between patients, providers, payers, and pharma. However, change is in the air, especially in orthopedics, with digital transformation, digital innovation, and patient- focused models. Innovation is desperately needed in all areas of healthcare. Still, bigfoot approaches that disregard existing patient and clinical care delivery models rather than trying to transform them will ultimately result in minimal success. Learning from their own past failures, as well as the failures of other big tech, will go a long way towards ensuring continued innovation and growth in orthopedic medicine. Innovation is no longer an idea for healthcare and life sciences but a way forward, as written by Michigan State University's Professor Joe Tidd and John R. Bessant, with additional research published in the International Journal of Health Policy and Management. Their research focused on the Four Ps of driving healthcare innovation and patient- centric models. Ÿ Paradigm Ÿ Positioning Ÿ Process Ÿ Product The paradigm shift: Go beyond the traditional, follow the patient! For pharma and providers' care settings, like acute, post- acute/assisted living facilities, they need to be hyper- focused on personalization of data collection, personalization of care delivery models and focus on where the patient is, which is outside the traditional clinical May 2022 26|www.insightscare.com Arti ent bus inno sits des mar Arti tech gro rese exe unn con soc eng In 2 hea des cha hea The com tran bus hea idea with bet crea pra clie Prio con lead Gla She Kell Nor bac com Stat Eng Pun AR Ab 27|
  • 29. l of on e ere 022 Arti Bedi Pullins is a strategic, data-driven entrepreneur with 20 years of experience in business strategy and deployment, product innovation and digital marketing. Her passion sits at the intersection of customer-based design-thinking, innovative technology, and market data/research. Arti has architected and led over a dozen technology businesses towards successful growth, applied market, customer, and product research data to the development of in-market execution, and worked on minimizing risk and unnecessary costs by understanding how consumers' emotions, interactions, cultural and socio-economic demographics impact brand engagement and adoption. In 2017, Arti founded Pundit Consultantz, a healthcare innovation and creative services design consultancy. Pundit Consultantz is the change agent and problem solver for healthcare and life sciences clients. The firm works exclusively with healthcare companies to incubate, innovate, and digitally transform. Pundit Consultantz helps businesses, institutions and developers in healthcare and life sciences technology ideate and then build products and services with real-world applications to produce better outcomes. The company also has creative design services that execute practical go-to-market strategies for clients' products and services. Prior to founding her business consultancy, Arti held senior leadership roles with SessionM, Glassdoor and CareerBuilder.com. She earned an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor's degree in business communication from Michigan State University. In addition to English, Arti is fluent in Hindi and Punjabi. ARTI BEDI PULLINS About the Author May 2022 27|www.insightscare.com
  • 30. setting. Big tech and MedTech have proven again and again how industries outside of healthcare are meeting where the consumer, in this case, the patient is. Patients no longer need to a physical facility to achieve personal care but rather demand convenience, comfort, accessibility, and affordability, all driven by innovations. Smart TVs are owned by 67 per cent of adults age 50 and older, 35percent own home assistants, 30 per cent owned wearables and 23 per cent owned smart home technology, as described in Trends Affecting Technology Adoption in Post-Acute and Senior Care. Meeting the patient in their homes and in virtual care settings by delivering hybrid patient-centric models will further help deliver the underlying value chain. Process: To focus and partner Patient care is not easy. Its complexity runs from the collection of personalized health data, a growing yet controversial trend, to the utilization of that data to deliver better outcomes. Learning from the manufacturing, tech, and supply chain industries in implementing automation, business processes, and technical data integrations, can all further optimize patient care. Healthcare's hospital-at-home programs, driven by Mayo Clinic and John Hopkins and life sciences growth towards decentralized clinical trial models, as published by McKinsey & Company and accepted by top pharma like Jansen and Pfizer, are all examples of ownership to drive better outcomes. Digital clinics, telemedicine, decentralized data collection, and in-home and hybrid care models are proving to be cost- effective and accessible solutions to solving complex chronic diseases and the daily care and consumerization of healthcare. Position: Be patient-focused and personalized care- obsessed Any big tech company, like Amazon, Uber, Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook, are obsessed with their products or service's being positioned based on their customer needs and wants, sometimes before they even know they need it! Healthcare, pharma-based drugs, and therapy development should be no different. Consumer/patient care, engagement and personalized data transparency needs to be looked at from a complete patient care journey perspective and all parts of the healthcare ecosystem. As Patrick McGill shared at HIMSS, at Community Health Network, the patient is at the center of the entire systems practice. There is no one owner of patient experience; everybody is hyper-focused on creating a better patient experience and ultimately better patient outcomes. Product: Innovating to drive better health Creating better results and outcomes for patients is ultimately what everyone within the healthcare ecosystem is after. For orthopedic technology and orthopedic medicine, the advancement in sensor, MedTech and artificial intelligence is one of the driver's delivering success. Just look at how smart orthopedic implants are having their moment (page 14-17) published in MedTech strategist. MedTech and medical manufacturers are embedding smart sensor technology and utilizing real-world evidence to learn and improve their product outcomes during and after a surgical procedure, dramatically shortening patients' post- surgery recovery times. Whether healthcare and life sciences choose to implement the 4- Ps or incorporate a different process, steady and constant learning from complementary industries and verticals will fuel innovation and patient-centric models. May 2022 28|www.insightscare.com
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  • 34. The Impact of on the CRO Market CRO Market echnology is changing the health world's future, Twhile future technology is reshaping the present world of health. Already emerging from the turbulent oceans of changing times are novel ways of carrying out or performing preclinical research and conducting trials. Many giant Clinical or Contract Research Organizations (CROs) have already started integrating their preclinical research, testing, and trials with not only digital, virtual, and remote technologies but are also implementing Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Computing, and Machine Learning (ML) technologies to efficiently conduct, perform, or carry out such experiments in increasingly enhanced environments. The process of developing a medicinal product is a long one, where there are many subprocesses like idea or concept generation, framing, discovering and developing that idea further, then the pre-clinical research stage then comes to the clinical trial stage, and finally, the FDA May 2022 32|www.insightscare.com 33|
  • 36. assessment and review stage which approves or disapproves the product based on its criteria. The Power of Modern Tech Although all these subprocesses are equally important, the stage where pre-clinical research is conducted is the most crucial one as the prospective product ideas or concepts have a strong chance of failing. This is where preclinical CROs play a very major role in opting for advanced technologies so they could research till the last element of each idea and concept from every possible angle, and find out the possibilities, and probabilities of the success and the failure of the drug or medicine in development. Modern technologies are not only giving more power to the preclinical CROs to look at the preclinical trial process with a holistic view increasing the probability of the drug or medicine moving to the further stage but are also helping them in saving huge costs. Let us look in detail at these reasons and dig ourselves deeper to gain a broader perspective. A Holistic Tech Perspective Advance Technological Implementation lowers the Uncertainty of the preclinical experiments by streamlining and optimizing detailed data collection, easing down the pre-clinical trials' subject selection, decreasing the time duration of research, and reducing financial costs. Research, data collection, test subject selection and continuous analysis are an integral part of drug research and medicine development. However, with increasing intricacy in the entire process, navigating through the continuous stream of incoming data gets impossible for the human researcher. This is where advanced technologies like automation, AI, cloud computing, Big Data Analysis, ML, etc. provide not only monitoring, tracing, tracking, and collecting data but also deep and machine learning of the recorded data to offer precise analysis, interpretation, flow, pattern while matching the samples with earlier available ones. Live COVID-19 Example It is because of using such novel technologies that in just a year and a half, CROs across the world could come up with more than a dozen coronavirus vaccines including Serum Institute of India's COVOVAX which has been developed through three trials in one country and approved in five countries, COVISHIELD (Oxford AstraZeneca Formulation) developed through four trials in one country and approved in 49 countries; Novavax's NUVAXOVID which has been developed through 17 trials in 13 countries and approved in 38 countries; Oxford/AstraZeneca's VAXZEVRIA developed through 66 clinical trials in 31 countries and approved in 140 countries; and so on and so forth. Due to this rapid vaccine development, according to The New York Times' COVID vaccine tracker, as of July 2022 over 5.23 billion people or 68.2% of the world population have received a dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Futuristic Technologies is the Future Clinical trial researchers also get benefitted by gaining actionable insights into the detailed reports created by using digital technologies. For example, AI and ML are now widely used in the most appropriate sample group selection that responds more to the pre-clinical tests and trials. The first major advantage of using these techs is the automated cellular level selection, data generation and analysis. These futuristic technologies modern cell-based selection offers an early-stage issue identification and problem detection with potential drug developments and testing. It aids in reducing sample wastage, time, and effort, and streamlines the entire process of research and development. For example, data samples collected during the research using AI can also be utilized for the most suitable patient matching during the clinical trials testing process. Preclinical image, graphics, and sample matching and analysis process automation are also feasible using techs such as AI and ML. CROs are now increasingly using these technologies for automated testing sample analysis, identification of molecular compounds, and analyse patterns for drug discovery. For Example, AI is now being used by the Institute of Cancer Research for making predictions regarding cancer drugs' novel prospects and performing repetitive tasks like research record up-gradation and data extraction. Likewise, scientists have successfully developed Eve, an AI Robot to help researchers in speeding up the drug discovery process. - Gaurav PR Wankhade May 2022 34|www.insightscare.com
  • 38. PharSafer® Committed to Pharmacovigilance & Patient Safety With the increasing demand for newer and safer pharmaceutical products, Contract Research Organizations, (CROs), have rapidly become a force in drug development and clinical trial recruitments and into the post-marketing safety arena. To highlight one such company, PharSafer®, has quietly and swiftly innovated and developed robust systems as its primary route to provide the best clinical research for drug development Companies large and small. The company offers a breadth of vigilance operations (The A – Z for Pharmacovigilance) for its clients, ranging from Pharmacovigilance to Cosmetovigilance, Materiovigilance, Advanced Therapy/Biologics vigilance, Vaccine safety, Nutrivigilance, and Veterinary Pharmacovigilance. In addition to assisting the clients with audit preparedness through its 'White Gloves Audit Group', PharSafer® offers global medical services and industry training courses for fellow industry and regulatory professionals from introductory through to intermediate and advanced levels on wide-ranging topics. We at Insights Care got an opportunity to interview PharSafer®'s, Director, CEO, and Owner, Dr Graeme Ladds. He shared some valuable facts about the company showcasing the fundamentals of being one of the prominent companies in the CRO healthcare sector. Below are the highlights: Please brief our audience about your company, its USPs, and how it is positioned as a reliable name in the CRO sector? Founded in 2003 by Dr Graeme Ladds, PharSafer® is an International Contract Research Organisation (CRO) specializing in Global Clinical and Post Marketing Drug Safety and Medical Services, with a wealth of varied experience in Pharmacovigilance, Medical Affairs, and Medical Information – and the different, numerous and extensive legal safety or medical obligations for license holders and clinical sponsors to comply with. Through our five core business sectors- Pharmacovigilance, Training, Audits, Medical Affairs, and Informatics, our clients always know who they can speak to for any request. They do not just get a provider – they get a partner offering advice and expertise to develop their drug safety systems cost-effectively and compliantly. Please shed some light on your offerings and how they impact the CRO industry and your clients. How your company provides research services to various organizations? In our people and our processes, we have a first-class business and deliver a service to match. We ensure all operations and communications are conducted with full transparency with our clients to ensure a synergized approach and deliver on our promise towards providing In our people and our processes, we have a first-class business and deliver a service to match. 10 Most Innovative CROs To Watch In 2022 May 2022 36|www.insightscare.com Wit and on d Pha are ove Gra Pha Com Com last Gra Inst Com the for Gra in a Gra glo His ava trai res and sist cou Str Cri 37|
  • 39. ® y nent SPs, O n nce, est. ing s y 022 022 With a first degree in Biochemistry and Pharmacology and a PhD focusing on drug metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Graeme has worked in the areas of Drug Safety and Medical services for over 30 years. Graeme has been working as Head of Global Pharmacovigilance for a multi-national innovator Company, and EU QP PV for many of the top ten Pharma Companies, and small Pharma and has been CEO for the last 19 years for PharSafer®. Graeme is also a member of the DIA; TOPRA; RQA, and the Institute of Directors and PIPA and has helped small start-up Companies (Biotech; Medical Devices; Biologics; Generics; Herbal; OTC) in their planning, growth and has been involved in Company and product acquisitions, due diligence activities for product in-licensing and marketing and development strategies with partner and distributor Companies. Graeme has been involved in many drug development programs, taking products from the bench to market in a wide range of therapeutic areas. Graeme also has an additional role as Research & Development Director for products to be developed for global launches. His 31-year journey in drug safety, where there was little structure to be trained in pharmacovigilance or availability for finding out the global regulations, fueled his desire to ensure there would be an extensive training program for all the PharSafer® people to promote and simplify their drug safety careers. This has resulted in many staff now has remained with the Company for over ten years, providing Company stability and in-depth expertise. Additionally, to aid all drug safety professionals in their careers the PharSafer® sister Company SaPhar has performed training all over the world with varied bespoke and formatted training courses for all levels of experience since 2003. Strategic and Critical Leadership Dr Graeme Ladds Director, CEO, Owner PharSafer® May 2022 37|www.insightscare.com
  • 40. enhanced global patient safety, all while operating our Quality Management System to ensure both compliance and consistency. Through our journey, over time, we have acquired additional expertise in advising and informing our wide- ranging client base of the best possible solutions within an extremely complex, ever-expanding, and a global industry where regulations continuously change. Our global expertise comes from our highly skilled team of Physicians, PhDs, MSc scientists, and Pharmacists with many years of experience in pharmacovigilance and medical services. We apply this experience in collaboration with other skilled members of our PharSafer® family – to not only deliver a first-class service for our clients but to continually research, develop and implement innovative processes, procedures and products for the benefit and advancement of the wider industry. We achieve this, working together with our sister company – SaPhar Training® – PharSafer® trains client Companies, runs bespoke training courses for large and small Pharma, ensures the highest training standards for PharSafer® personnel, and continuously seeks new and innovative ways to provide added value for our clients, going above and beyond expectations and optimizing our many detailed processes and procedures involved with clinical and post- marketing drug safety and medical affairs. What are the core values upon which your organization is built? What is the vision and mission of your organization? Overall, our mission is to keep each and every one of our clients compliant as the international environment evolves leading them through the global maze that is drug safety regulation, with exceptional quality of service forever at the forefront of our thoughts. May 2022 38|www.insightscare.com 39|