How CRO-Sponsor Partnerships Spurred Innovation In 2020

By Denise Calaprice, Ph. D.

For decades, operational progress within the clinical research industry has been profoundly shaped by the relationships between sponsor companies and their CRO partners.  Among other advances, these relationships have contributed to sponsors’ abilities to globalize clinical trial operations, expand therapeutically, manage risk effectively, and optimize processes, impacts that have been studied for nearly 20 years in the annual Avoca Industry Survey.