Managing Clinical Trials

Medelis expands CRO services into Europe, appoints Dr. Deirdre Tessman to run the operation

We’re very pleased to announce that our colleague Deirdre Tessman, Ph.D., has officially joined our organization to lead our new Medelis Europe division as its Managing Director.  She’ll also be re-joining her longstanding former colleagues Dr. Daniel Von Hoff, Dr. Skip Burris, and Dr. Mace Rothenberg, all members of Medelis' Medical Advisory Board.

Deirdre brings ten years of experience managing European studies, an extensive understanding of European regulatory requirements and a deep familiarity with all phases of clinical development to Medelis clients who wish to complete the regulatory requirements of the European Community for their therapies and devices.

Beyond her European expertise, Deirdre brings more than 30 years of worldwide drug development and regulatory experience to our organization. She’s directed all phases of pharmaceutical development from research through drug approval and marketing with additional expertise in the startup and turnaround of pharmaceutical companies.

Medelis Europe delivers complete oncology drug development services from preclinical through phase III. European, U.S., and Asian sponsors looking to bring drugs to the U.S. & European markets can now take advantage of Medelis’ full service offering, which now includes EDC for phase I studies; internet-based patient recruitment; and integrated preclinical studies aligning the preclinical, regulatory and clinical teams.

Please join us in welcoming Deirdre – here is her contact information. You can also find a formal announcement about her appointment and background here.

Meet us at BioPartnering Europe

We’re gearing up to attend the BioPartnering Europe conference in London, UK (Oct. 12-14, 2008) to talk about our new Medelis Europe division and the CRO services we’re offering to European, U.S. and Asian sponsors looking to bring drugs to the U.S. and European markets.

If you’re attending the conference, we invite you to join us for our open house:

Monday, 13 October from 10.00-12.00, Group 1, Booth 11
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre
Westminster, 4th Floor
Broad Sanctuary, Westminster
London SW1P 3EE
United Kingdom

For more details, log into your BioPartnering.com account and visit our exhibitor profile.  You can also email Dr. Deirdre Tessman to learn more.  (You'll find her complete contact information here.)

Using YouTube to recruit for clinical trials

Mark Senak, author of the informative Eye on FDA blog, wrote an interesting post yesterday about the NIH’s YouTube channel.  They set up the channel a year ago to help promote clinical trial participation. 

As Mark explains, "YouTube presents a great way for patients who have participated to talk to patients that might be interested, and for the information to be passed virally to people who might be curious about participating in a clinical trial."

He then posts several of the oncology clinical trial videos he found in the channel and plans to promote them on his (much more popular) Eye on FDA YouTube channel.  Here are three videos he chose:

Read the full Eye on FDA post here.