INTO CONTRACT RESEARCH

摘要

Contract-research organizations (CROs) are increasingly taking on tasks previously done within the pharmaceutical industry, from clinical-trial management to medicinal chemistry. Many former employees of big pharmaceutical companies are moving to CROs- and liking it. "I thought the environment was going to be significantly different," says Jim Kremidas, who made the leap in 2008. But the change "was not as traumatic as I thought it was goi ng to be".