People

As the new director of biostatistics and data management for WorldCare Clinical (Boston, MA), Asli Memisoglu, PhD, will oversee the development of image analysis performance metrics, statistical design, and database management between the company’s project managers, sponsors and independent reviewers.

Joining BASi (West Lafayette, IN) in December of 2008, Jack Polidoro, PhD, will now focus on the company’s Evansville, Indiana, operations, where he will work with the toxicology lab’s business development efforts. D The executive team of WorldCare Clinical (Boston, MA) has gained Robert Fetterman as associate director of imaging services, where he will leverage the clinical core laboratory and imaging experience of the company to extend the function of its imaging transmission platform, Worldpro.

In his new role as managing director and chief executive officer of Europe for Ecron Acunova (Frankfurt, Germany), Antal Hajos, PhD, will have overall responsibility for all business, strategic, and operational aspects of the European operations.

Trio Clinical Research (Durham, NC) has expanded its team with the additions of Kurt Mussina as the new senior vice president of business development and Jim Calvin as the senior vice president of clinical services.

Set to lead core business functions are three new additions to the Lantheus Medical Imaging (Billerica, MA) team: Mary Taylor as vice president of regulatory affairs, lldia Gonzalez Ojeda as senior director of quality operations, and Jeffrey Young as global controller.

Three managers have been appointed at Synexus’ (Manchester, UK) UK headquarters, including Noreen Younis as feasibility manager, Joanne Lee, as contract center manager, and Michael Fort as Synexus chief executive.

Alliances

To provide a more reliable and precise measure of patients’ responses to therapies, ICON (Dublin, Ireland) and MedAvante (Hamilton, NJ) have entered into an alliance agreement.

Combining services in clinical pharmacology and centralized cardiac testing, an alliance between Cetero (Cary, NC) and Cardiocore (Bethesda, MD) intends to optimize the design, conduct, and reporting of cardiac safety issues.

To provide 20 Clinsys (Bedminster, NJ) employees with Six Sigma Green Belt Training the company is partnering with North Carolina State University.

A partnership between ACM Global Central Lab (Rochester, NY) and Chindex International (Bethesda, MD) will now provide central lab services in China at United Family Hospitals, Beijing.

The University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) has chosen to use Velos’ (Fremont, CA) services and its product, Velos eResearch, which is set to be implemented at UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center as well as in an affiliated clinical research network, Translational Oncology Research International.

Deploying TAKE Supply Chain’s (Austin, TX) Gemini for Oracle Process Manufacturing, Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals (Warrendale, PA) has reported an improvement in global distribution efficiency and productivity.

Awards

Along with three others, ChemSW (Fairfield, CA) has been rated as one of the top ITvendors for overall customer satisfaction in 2008 by VendorRate (Los Gatos, CA), an Internet site that rates and compares technology vendors.

Being acknowledged for its contributions to the life sciences industry in the Asia/Pacific region, Parexel (Boston, MA) received Best Performing Clinical Research Organization from BioSingapore.