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European Pharmaceutical Contractor
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It is always a challenge to design a novel programme for a conference which deals with the central laboratory sector. Too often you have heard the presentations before or they contain nothing new. They are attended by the same old people with little new to say, no new views to air. But it isn't as though central laboratories have not evolved over the years - indeed they have developed enormously. The service part of their offering has become key while their analytical skills have almost come to be taken for granted. Thus, the core competencies of a first class central laboratory increasingly have had little to do with analysis, hence the title of this conference, held in the elegant and decadent surroundings of the Royal Park at Evian-les Bains - 'a bloodless coup'.
The analysis of samples taken in the course of a clinical trial may contribute to up to 50 per cent of the data presented to the regulators and around the same percentage of cost. For the time being at least, clinical trials continue to grow in terms of numbers of patients, the number of parameters measured for each patient, and the diversity of countries in which the trials are carried out. This is one of the increasing challenges for the central lab - how to cope with the ever-growing logistic scale of the trial. The way that trials are conducted is also beginning to change, albeit slowly. Electronic data capture (EDC), remote data entry (RDE), interactive voice response systems (IVRS) and so on, are all playing an increasing role in clinical trials. Therefore the labs have to keep abreast of this trend and ideally anticipate it.
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