http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/06/29/the-800-pound-pound-gorilla-with-its-arms-around-your-best-enrolling-sites/ Pharmaceutical and biotech science and business Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:15:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/06/29/the-800-pound-pound-gorilla-with-its-arms-around-your-best-enrolling-sites/#comment-67 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:35:49 +0000 http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/06/29/the-800-pound-pound-gorilla-with-its-arms-around-your-best-enrolling-sites/#comment-67 [...] On June 29th, I discussed a story originally published in ClinPage that Pfizer was signing investigators to exclusive contracts.  The story was picked up by several blogs, and had the potential to become mainstream news (but didn’t).  After that post, I received a confidential note from a Pfizer employee indicating that the story was flawed; that, in fact, Pfizer was NOT asking clinical investigators to sign exclusive contracts.  I didn’t report on this email, as its sender asked me not to for some reason.  ClinPage has now “clarified” its coverage of the presentation made by Andy Lee of Pfizer at DIA (see Pfizer Site Strategy).  As they are now reporting, Pfizer did not attempt to get investigators to sign exclusive sponsor contracts but rather asked investigators who were not recruiting for a particular study to serve the study or the project otherwise (as an advisor, for instance). [...] […] On June 29th, I discussed a story originally published in ClinPage that Pfizer was signing investigators to exclusive contracts.  The story was picked up by several blogs, and had the potential to become mainstream news (but didn’t).  After that post, I received a confidential note from a Pfizer employee indicating that the story was flawed; that, in fact, Pfizer was NOT asking clinical investigators to sign exclusive contracts.  I didn’t report on this email, as its sender asked me not to for some reason.  ClinPage has now “clarified” its coverage of the presentation made by Andy Lee of Pfizer at DIA (see Pfizer Site Strategy).  As they are now reporting, Pfizer did not attempt to get investigators to sign exclusive sponsor contracts but rather asked investigators who were not recruiting for a particular study to serve the study or the project otherwise (as an advisor, for instance). […]

]]> http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/06/29/the-800-pound-pound-gorilla-with-its-arms-around-your-best-enrolling-sites/#comment-66 Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:57:01 +0000 http://pharmaweblog.com/blog/2007/06/29/the-800-pound-pound-gorilla-with-its-arms-around-your-best-enrolling-sites/#comment-66 I have since corrected the story in a subsequent post. ClinPage is now saying that they got the Pfizer story wrong, and I heard the same from a Pfizer employee. I stand by my comments on the strategy itself, but, at least for now, know of no sponsor actually using the strategy. I have since corrected the story in a subsequent post. ClinPage is now saying that they got the Pfizer story wrong, and I heard the same from a Pfizer employee. I stand by my comments on the strategy itself, but, at least for now, know of no sponsor actually using the strategy.

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