Outsourcing
Central laboratories have become an important part of running global clinical trials in Europe and the US. With the rapid increase in the number of studies conducted in China and other Asia-Pacifi c countries, sponsors should understand how to choose central labs in these regions too. Kim Thomas asks Honggang Bi, senior vice-president and head of APAC at Labcorp Drug Development, and Michael W Young, principal at biomedwoRx: Life Sciences Consulting, what sponsors should look for when outsourcing to a central lab.
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n the past few decades, China and other Asia- Pacific countries have become popular locations for clinical trials. The trend towards holding studies in the region doesn’t appear to be slowing down either, with analysts estimating that the current $7.6bn contract research organisation market will grow to $11.9bn by 2025. That popularity has been at least partly driven by the relatively low market rates of the clinical trial workforce. Some of the costs can be 25–35% lower than they are in the US and some European countries, says Michael W Young, a principal at
biomedwoRx: Life Sciences Consulting. This is particularly the case, he says, in the areas of “data management, biostatistics and central lab testing, including bioanalytics”.
Another consideration is that if a drug is designed to be used for a condition that affects a particular ethnic population, it makes sense to have that population well represented in trials. Regulatory bodies, says Honggang Bi, head of APAC at Labcorp Drug Development, “may require populations from their own region to be included in the trial so they can review the data with better confidence”.
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