Mangalore, 14 Nov 2013: A team of executives from Quintiles, Bangalore headed by Sanjay Patel, senior director and head, CDM visited NGSM Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Deralakatte, here on Tuesday November 12 and delivered a talk on Trends in Clinical Research and Clinical Data management (CDM).
Sanjay Patel talked about the latest advances in clinical research in India and the regulatory constrains. He opined that India will be the hub of clinical research with right regulatory environment due to the availability of highly skilled technical resource and low cost.
Raghavendra Kalmadi, director, CDM, and Kripesh Krishnan, manager, CDM, made presentations on the importance of clinical data management and compared Indian and International scenario in clinical research.
Sanjay Patel offered to extend advanced training in CDM to the students of the college at their facility in Bangalore. The executives from quintiles will be visiting the institution periodically to update the students and staff in this area.
Satish Bhandary, Dean, K S Hegde Medical Academy inaugurated the seminar.
Speaking on the occasion Dr Bhandary said that India is set to emerge as a global centre of excellence for clinical Research by 2020.
Dr C S Shastry, principal welcomed the gathering and thanked the Quintiles team for offering to extend the training programme for the students of NGSMIPS. He invited Quintiles to be a part of institutional development process.
Dr Ishwar Bhat, head of department of pharmaceutical chemistry briefed about the seminar and its objectives.
Dr Jennifer Fernandes delivered vote of thanks and Jessica compered the programme.
The seminar was attended by over 150 delegates.