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I have been pretty busy at work since March because I have been working on this incredibly awesome study.
Our company's strengths lie in the post-data collection activities associated with a clinical trial: data management, statistical analysis and medical writing.
With this study, our company was testing the waters with the study set-up, project management and data collection activities associated with a clinical trial...all lumped under the area "clinical".
In doing so, you need to find hospitals/sites to participate in the trial, evaluate if they are suitable to participate, train them on the study, and monitor their progress in the clinical trial.
We almost had our first patient screened at a site (in Pittsburgh, actually-- in Mount Lebanon area), when the study was cancelled on 8/30/06. My coworker and I were going to fly out to Dayton OH on 9/1/06 to train our second site so that they could start patient enrollment as well.
But there were two other related clinical trials for the same drug and indication (Megace on cancer-induced anorexia and cachexia) that weren't doing well at all with subject recruitment, so Par (our client and the sponsor for the study series) decided to cancel all 3 clinical trials. The article is posted here: http://www.parpharm.com/media/NR_20060905.jsp
We all weren't that surprised, since our study was really slow at just finding sites interested in the study (since the sites knew they would have trouble with subject enrollment down the line, too). But we are all still really bummed. It was what I was working on most, and it was such a great experience-- I learned soooo much in 4 months. And did so much traveling!! I went to Little Rock, Minneapolis, Madison, Montreal, a training in Boston and I was scheduled to do more traveling as the study progressed. Working on Project Management and really closely with the client and vendors, and sites was awesome, too. It was great to work with so many different people again on just one study.
I think we are going to try find another study to do clinical work for, but in the meantime I'll be working on the more post-data collection activities since our company constantly has work there. I think it will be nice to be so well-rounded in such a large industry. Usually people who work in this industry only work in one area-- I am really lucky to be able to work in all of them.
Our company's strengths lie in the post-data collection activities associated with a clinical trial: data management, statistical analysis and medical writing.
With this study, our company was testing the waters with the study set-up, project management and data collection activities associated with a clinical trial...all lumped under the area "clinical".
In doing so, you need to find hospitals/sites to participate in the trial, evaluate if they are suitable to participate, train them on the study, and monitor their progress in the clinical trial.
We almost had our first patient screened at a site (in Pittsburgh, actually-- in Mount Lebanon area), when the study was cancelled on 8/30/06. My coworker and I were going to fly out to Dayton OH on 9/1/06 to train our second site so that they could start patient enrollment as well.
But there were two other related clinical trials for the same drug and indication (Megace on cancer-induced anorexia and cachexia) that weren't doing well at all with subject recruitment, so Par (our client and the sponsor for the study series) decided to cancel all 3 clinical trials. The article is posted here: http://www.parpharm.com/media/NR_20060905.jsp
We all weren't that surprised, since our study was really slow at just finding sites interested in the study (since the sites knew they would have trouble with subject enrollment down the line, too). But we are all still really bummed. It was what I was working on most, and it was such a great experience-- I learned soooo much in 4 months. And did so much traveling!! I went to Little Rock, Minneapolis, Madison, Montreal, a training in Boston and I was scheduled to do more traveling as the study progressed. Working on Project Management and really closely with the client and vendors, and sites was awesome, too. It was great to work with so many different people again on just one study.
I think we are going to try find another study to do clinical work for, but in the meantime I'll be working on the more post-data collection activities since our company constantly has work there. I think it will be nice to be so well-rounded in such a large industry. Usually people who work in this industry only work in one area-- I am really lucky to be able to work in all of them.