" This conference really speaks to an exciting crossroad. It's at the intersection of novel science applied to the drug development process. It addresses our ability to leverage an innovative tool kit. This kit includes, but is not limited to, laboratory sciences, cardiac monitoring, and imaging. This conference brings together the science and business, enabling us to change the business challenges into opportunities and solutions."

" There are many processes in clinical research which are vulnerable if logistics fail. Any of these failures can result in a project delay, lost materials, wasted resources and time, and potentially can lead to a project failure. The role of the logistics task force is to work with all of the logistics stakeholders, to clearly identify and defi ne the areas which are pressure points and demonstrate that there are valid business cases to be made for addressing these issues, on both sides."

Peter Colbourne, CONCENTRX CONSULTING

Why is Central Labs Different?

"The really unique thing about the Central Labs is that it is a very focused event around outsourcing and partnerships issues related to and working with Central and specialty Labs, ECG core labs, imaging labs, logistical suppliers and other vendors that work in this space. Because of the focus, it brings together a really nice group of both outsourcing professionals, project managers within Pharma and biotech's that are responsible for managing those relationships after the contract is in place, as well as all of the service providers and the relevant individuals there."

Solomon Babani, CELTIC PHARMA DEVELOPMENT SERVICES