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Jan 2008

Nature (Vol7, pp13-14) publishes an article by Thiers et al. about “Trends in the globalization of clinical trials”. The article indicates that 66% of all clinical trial sites in the world are in North America, Europe and Oceania currently. Countries in emerging regions (Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa) represented only 8% of sites conducting biopharmaceutical clinical trials in 2002. In 2006, they represented 20% of site involved in biopharmaceutical trials. This shows a rapid growth of emerging countries. It is preoccupying that the average relative annual growth rate in certain countries in traditional clinical research regions is negative: -12.0% in Canada, -6.5% in the USA and -4.0% in France. In contrast, the growth rate in China, Russia and India is strongly positive (47%, 33% and 19.6%, respectively), although starting from a much lower base. Crossover interprets these data as a warning signal to healthcare institutions in traditional countries, who have to professionalize the organization of their clinical research offer and adopt sophisticated marketing techniques.

Jan 2008
Jean-Pierre Tassignon, MD, PhD opens the Annual Conference and chairs the Annual General Meeting as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the European Forum for GCP in Brussels, Belgium.
Dec 2007
Jivka Agov joins Crossover as Vice-President Corporate Support and Member of the Executive Committee She is based in Zug, Switzerland.
Sep 2007
Paul Smith joins Crossover as Vice-President Business Development and Member of the Executive Committee.
Sep 2007
Velizar Tchernev, MD, PhD joins Crossover as International Director Clinical Research Technologies and Director South East Europe and Member of the Executive Committee. He is based in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Aug 2007
Crossover establishes two wholly owned subsidiaries in Europe, one in Brussels, Belgium and one in Sofia, Bulgaria, to serve the Clinical Research Units (CRUs) being set up in these countries.
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    Ceremony will take place
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  • BPCM academic meeting on 16
    January 2009 in Brussels.
    Jean-Pierre Tassignon, who
    is a Fellow of the Belgian ... more
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    Board meeting on 7 January,
    2009 in Brussels.
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