KCAS Webinar Archive: “Optimizing Your CRO Selection Process for Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery”

If you missed our webinar on April 22nd of 2020, you can check it out below!

Often, when confronted with outsourcing and looking for laboratories for your discovery projects, turnaround times and cost are two very important factors. Quality and reliability of data generated are of course essential as well. How do you ensure that your expectations are fulfilled? You do that by doing a little digging – in other words, you have to ask some very simple (but probing) questions.

The first question that you ask should be about the business model and the specific strategy for the discovery project. The next question needs to be about infrastructure and depth of experience. Does the CRO have processes in place that allows it to expand rapidly when you do? In case of a significant backlog, how does the CRO you are considering prioritize? Is it a first in, first out? Or is it based on the size of your contract? Both of these approaches run the chance of having your project stuck behind another large project and/or seeing your small contract not making it to the top of the priority list.

In this webinar, you will discover the best way to identify whether the CRO you are reviewing has the capabilities to serve your full suite of discovery needs. You will learn about the specific questions to ask and the characteristics to seek out when determining the CRO best suited for the entire scope of your drug discovery project.