Managing Partnerships with CROs

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Overview of workshop

Designing for co-operation plays a significant part in outsourcing. If you get it right, then most of the problems, for instance sponsor's satisfaction, take care of themselves. Planning the co-operation starts early in the CRO selection phase, hence it is good to know the most common pitfalls that may later cause problems and even risks to the business.

Outsourcing has become very common in pharma business, but if we look at the outcomes, they can be very different. Some companies have benefited enormously from utilising CROs, and for some companies it has been a very rocky road. In this workshop we will examine and explain these differences and how to minimise and manage the risks.
 

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Upon completion of this workshop, attendees should be able to:

• Understand the basis for successful outsourcing and partnerships
• Build and maintain successful relationships with CROs
• Understand the possible causes of conflicts and importance of trust and commitment
• Understand when and how to exit from the relationship

About the workshop host

Anne-Maria Ylisaari, is Head of In-and-Outsourcing at Orion Pharma. Anne Maria, or Amy, as she prefers to be called, joined Orion Pharma R&D Clinical Department 1995. She started as a CRA, moving on soon to the marketing department where she worked a couple of years in different roles in marketing of analgesics, CNS drugs and cancer drugs. In beginning of 1998 she returned to clinical research to be a lead for international, fully outsourced phase III studies outsourced to global CROs. During the years managing the global CROs she got more interested in outsourcing and its many aspects, finally ending up working in the global In- and Outsourcing Unit at Orion Pharma Clinical R&D on 2003. At the same time she also joined the Pharmaceutical Contract Management Group (PCMG) and has been a member of the Committee from January 2008. These days she is leads the Global Clinical Alliances & Sourcing team at Orion Corporation Orion Pharma, and continues developing actively the general outsourcing processes. She also frequently gives presentations in international outsourcing conferences

About Orion Pharma

Orion is an innovative European R&D-based pharmaceuticals and diagnostics company with an emphasis on developing medicinal treatments and diagnostic tests for global markets. Orion develops, manufactures and markets human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as diagnostic tests.