PPD is a leading global contract research organization providing comprehensive, integrated drug development, laboratory and lifecycle management services. Their clients and partners include pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, academic and government organizations. With offices in 51 countries and more than 18,500 professionals worldwide, PPD applies innovative technologies, therapeutic expertise and a firm commitment to quality to help clients and partners bend the cost and time curve of drug development to deliver life-changing therapies that improve health.
From its beginnings in 1985 as a one-person consulting firm to its position today as a leading global contract research organization (CRO), PPD’s history is shaped by its commitment to consistent quality and execution, exceptional customer-aligned service and constant innovation to speed the overall execution of clinical trials.
Early Development
- - Chemistry, manufacturing and control (CMC) consulting
- - Manufacturing and controls
- - Nonclinical development and chemistry
- - Pharmacology and toxicology
- - Clinical research units (for healthy and patient volunteers)
- - Patient network
- - Translational medicine
Clinical Development
- - Biostatistics
- - Clinical supplies
- - Clinical trial monitoring
- - Data management
- - Feasibility studies
- - Global pharmacovigilance
- - Medical communications
- - Medical writing
- - Patient recruitment
- - Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics (PK/PD)
- - Project management
- - Quality and compliance
- - Regulatory affairs
- - Study startup
PPD® Laboratories
- - Bioanalytical lab
- - Central lab
- - GMP lab
- - Vaccines sciences lab
Post-Approval
- - Early planning for post-approval research
- - Epidemiology
- - Expanded access and compassionate use programs
- - Global pharmacovigilance
- - Health economics and outcomes research
- - Medical communications
- - Observational studies
- - Phase IV clinical research
- - Patient registries
- - Risk evaluation and mitigation strategies (REMS) and risk management plans
Consulting
- - Adaptive trial design
- - Biosimilar development
- - Cardiovascular outcomes
- - Medical devices
- - Pediatrics
- - Product development
- - Quality and compliance
- - Rare diseases
Purpose
Impreve Health
Mission
Help their customers deliver life-changing therapies
Strategy
Bend the cost and time curve of drug development
