Posts Tagged ‘clinical research’

Sabine Vollmer

Q&A with Sandy Kennedy

Thursday, September 10, 2009, 7:39 pm By Sabine Vollmer

Sandy Kennedy is an executive at Quintiles Transnational, where she is charged with making sure that studies testing new medicines follow federal and industry regulations and guidelines.

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Pharma gets creative to find patients for tests

Thursday, September 3, 2009, 9:59 am By Sabine Vollmer

Free health screenings, food and a raffle promise to draw a crowd Sept. 12 at North Carolina Central University.

There’s a reason for all the goodies. Organizers want people to stay and listen — to speakers like Dr. Robert Califf, who heads Duke University’s Clinical Research Institute; Dr. Wendy Brewster, director of women’s health research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and executives from Quintiles Transnational and PPD, two North Carolina companies that help drugmakers test new medicines.

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