Brazil is critical base for PPD's CROs efforts

ClinPage recently featured some of the CROs that are dominant in the Brazil market. With over 300 employees in the region and at any given time 150 trials running, PPD, a Wilmington, North Carolina-basd company, dominates the region. They entered Brazil in 1995 when they bought Q&Q Suporte a Pesquisa Clinica, the first established CRO in Brazil. From there, PPD grew organically and spread through other countries in Latin America such as Mexico, Argentina, Chile and Peru.

For more on PPD, read the article here.

ethica Clinical Research expands to South America

According to Pharma Times, The Canadian Clinical Research outsourcer, ethica, will be expanding operations to Buenos Aires, Argentina. They'll be partnering with Blanchard y Asociados, who is headquartered in Buenos Aires. They'll be expanding their human research protection program in to this section of the world.

Dr. Janice Parente, the founder and president of ethica has this to say about their expansion:

"While clinical research has globalised and nearly half of the world’s clinical trials are now being conducted outside of North America and Western Europe, there is a need to develop a global approach to the oversight of research on humans. We are proud to be playing a pivotal role toward achieving this goal.”