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Save the Date: October 6 for the IMDMC annual conference
IMDMC (Indiana Medical Device Manufacturers Council) will hold its annual meeting at the Montage in Indianapolis, Indiana on October 6th, 2011. Pearl's COO, Gretchen Bowker will be speaking during the clinical section of the conference in a talk entitled "FDA/OHRP...
FDA Strives to Regulate Your…iPhone?
When you hear the term “App” in reference to an iPhone, iPad, or other smartphone/tablet devices, what pops into your head? If “Angry Birds” (a wildly popular downloadable game) or “Facebook” first comes to mind, then you haven't been living in a dark, sequestered...
Gretchen Bowker speaking at the 2011 RAPS: The Regulatory Convergence
Pearl IRB's very own Gretchen Bowker has been invited to speak at this year's Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) annual meeting, which will be held at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis from October 22nd to the 26th. RAPS is an extremely...
Pearl IRB and Trafalgar Ethics Board partner to deliver integrated US – Canada IRB review services
Two commercial IRBs collaborate to deliver streamlined clinical trial reviews for sponsors Indianapolis, IN – July 28, 2011 – Pearl IRB,LLC and Trafalgar Ethics Board, Inc. announce a partnership to provide one stop shop service for central IRB (Institutional Review...
Chairman of CISCRP Questions Current US Human Protection System
“If it ain't broke, don't fix it,” that's how the old saying goes. That's not what what Kenneth Getz says about our current state of US human protection IRB system. Getz' article published in Applied Clinical Trials Online titled “Frustration with IRB Bureaucracy...