Croissance Clinical Research, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) based in Hyderabad and The African Clinical Research Management Initiative (ACRMi), a regional CRO operating out of Kenya, jointly announced that they had consolidated their effort and resources in Africa with the launch of Croissance Clinical Research-Africa (CCR-A). The Board of CCR-A has appointed Mr. Jacob Odika Apollo to take over the new company as Chief Executive officer.
The African Clinical Research Management Initiative (ACRMi) established in 2009, is a privately held African CRO, which specializes in conducting clinical trials on infectious diseases in the African region, while Croissance Clinical Research (Hyerabad) is a full-service CRO that operates out of Hyderabad, India and has an operational presence in 8 strategically important locations across the globe.
The launch of Croissance Clinical Research-Africa (CCR-A) brings together a unique mix of scientists and researchers from Europe, Asia and Africa with deep therapeutic area expertise on Infectious diseases, NIDs and NTD’s, while offering access to a diverse population for conducting large scale multi-geography trials efficiently. List of offerings and new company structure is provided on the link below:
Croissance Clinical Research-Africa (CCR-A): https://croissancecr.com/Africa
Elaborating on the prospects of this partnership, Dr. Bernhards Ogutu, Principal Investigator and Director for ACRMi, said, "integrating operations of both companies comes with a lot of benefit to the industry, including increased scalability and geographic presence, access to additional therapeutic expertise & service capabilities, technology improvements and overall cost savings which allow sponsors to have access to “one-stop shopping” at Croissance Clinical Research-Africa (CCR-A).
Besides expanding scientific leadership and upgrading Clinical trials infrastructure in Africa, Satish Marukurthi, CEO of Croissance, Hyderabad said “the combined ‘ACRMi-Croissance’ company will Increase efficiency in the conduct of clinical trials in Africa by leveraging technologies that improve patient recruitment for clinical trials, thereby delivering data more quickly to sponsors, and Leverage the increased scale of our centralized clinical operations & collective data management resources to drive greater R&D productivity for clients. This undoubtedly will expand our highly specialized services to meet the emerging needs of our clients, while maintaining an uncompromising focus on quality”.
About Croissance Clinical Research, Hyderabad: Croissance Clinical Research (Hyerabad) is a full-service CRO offering a full range of services for Phase I – IV, PMS, PMOS, IIS, and Epidemiology studies, ISO 9001: 2015, and ISO 27001: 2013 Certified organization
About African Clinical Research Management Initiative (ACRMi): African based Clinical Research Organization incorporated in Kenya in 2009
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