United Kingdom : Quintiles Partners with Leading Foundation Trust and University to Improve Patient Care and Drive Efficiency in Clinical Research.Byline: shiv03 A significant step in driving innovation, improving patient care and increasing efficiency in early stage clinical research was taken today with the announcement that two of the UK s leading institutions - Guy s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust NHS Foundation Trusts (often referred to as "foundation hospitals") are hospitals which are part of the National Health Service in England. Function They have a significant amount of managerial and financial freedom when compared to existing NHS Trust. and King s College London - have signed a collaborative agreement with Quintiles Quintiles Transnational Corp. is a contract research organization which serves the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and healthcare industries. History Quintiles was founded in 1982 by Dennis Gillings and as of 2007 it has 18,000 employees. , the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. As part of the agreement, Quintiles has commissioned a state of the art research facility with 30 beds, for both patients and healthy volunteers involved in research, on the 14th floor of Guy s Hospital in central London The term Central London refers to the districts of London which are considered closest to the centre. There is no such conventional definition, nor any official one, for the entire area that can be called "central London". . The facility, to be completed in early 2010, will now be known as the Quintiles Drug Research Unit at Guy s Hospital. The facility significantly increases Quintiles capacity to conduct proof-of-concept programmes that help biopharmaceutical companies develop better medicines faster. The biopharmaceutical industry must bring new drugs to market faster and with greater predictability to address declining research and development productivity, said Eddie Caffrey, Senior Vice President, Global Phase I, Quintiles. The smartest move is to invest in intelligent, early-stage development because, when done well, it has significant impact on speed and cost of the overall development process. A further strength of the collaboration is that it will bring Quintiles physically and professionally closer to academic and medical colleagues in the Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC AHSC Arizona Health Sciences Center AHSC Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation AHSC Affordable Housing Study Commission (Florida) ), King s Health Partners, and its National Institute for Health Research (NIHR NIHR Norwegian Institute of Human Rights ) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre (BRC BRC Black Rock City (Burning Man) BRC British Retail Consortium BRC Business Resource Center (Small Business Administration) BRC Bisexual Resource Center BRC Black Radical Congress ). The Quintiles Drug Research Unit at Guy s Hospital will be perfectly positioned next to leading-edge Clinical Research Facilities and a Good Manufacturing Practice Good Manufacturing Practice or GMP (also referred to as 'cGMP' or 'current Good Manufacturing Practice') is a term that is recognized worldwide for the control and management of manufacturing and quality control testing of foods and pharmaceutical products. (GMP GMP (guanosine monophosphate): see guanine. ) Pharmacy currently being developed by Guy s and St Thomas and King s College London to drive forward the translation of science onto the wards -from bench to bedside - and will also be adjacent to the home of the BRC s new Faculty of Translational Medicine translational medicine Molecular medicine The constellation of activities which seek to translate the science of gene discovery, gene transfer, and functional genomics into gene-targeted therapies . Ron Kerr, Chief Executive of Guy s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust said: We want to deliver the best possible care to our patients, and we know that aligning clinical service excellence with translational research has been shown to be one of the most effective ways to do this. We re excited by the potential of this collaboration as it will lead to a smoother and faster clinical trials process, ensuring our patients and local people are amongst the first to benefit from any new discoveries. Professor Robert Lechler, Vice-Principal (Health), King s College London and Director of King s Health Partners, said: King s College London s important partnership with Quintiles and Guy s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, one of our Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) partners, is exactly the sort of collaboration we expect to see at the hea Copyright : Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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