At present, the Indian environment is becoming conductive to clinical trials. However, it is essential that all stakeholders work towards the common goal of conducting quality trials which assure human subject protection while ensuring data integrity of the trial.

Above all, India participates in only around 2% of global clinical trials & has tremendous scope to grow in this industry. India has 16% of world’s population & carries 20% disease burden in the world. So, our government is also promoting clinical research industry by making ease to the guidelines.

Clinical Data Management is an important discipline of Clinical Research. It ensures collection, integration and availability of data at an appropriate quality, reliable and statistically sound data from clinical trials. Most importantly, the primary goal of CDM is to ensure a well maintained data that supports the conclusion drawn from clinical research. Thus, it supports the ultimate objective of clinical research, i.e making available the new drug treatments of rare and debilitating diseases.

A Contract Research Organization is an organization that helps conduct research for a sponsor company. Furthermore, this research involves practices right from the pre clinical drug development to the post marketing research activities. Also, a CRO offers all types of research services to the pharmaceutical, medical device and biotechnology industries. Subsequently, trained clinical research professionals can also get job opportunities in CRO because of the wider scope of clinical research in India.