29 Apr 2020
Report on the Orientation Programme on Clinical Trial Management
Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences
Date: 29-04-2020
The Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Sciences has given the students of the second semester M.Sc. Biotechnology, the opportunity to interact with the Founder BCRI, Pankaj Rana and CO-founder BCRI, Dr. Sreedhar Reddy Sir. Instructors of BCRI (Bangalore Clinical Research Institute) on 29.04.2020. This interaction was done through Cisco Webex, an online portal. The main speaker for the day was Padmapriya Roa, Technical Lead IQVIA. The speaker explained the overall view on the importance of clinical trials and the different phases involved during the trials. She also emphasised on the importance of data management and also shared the ways to rectify errors done while entering the data. The speaker enlightened students about the connection between the sponsor, site and the CRO. A Sponsor is a group of people or a single individual who is willing to sponsor for the commencement of clinical trials to take place. Site is the location of the clinical trials to be executed and the CRO helps management of the data entered at the site and these data can be shared by using a common database by the sponsor, site and the CRO. The speaker also mentioned the role of regulatory authorities in clinical trial. Detailed account of CRO’s in India and the job opportunities in the domain was shared with student. It was a very interactive and an informative session and the speaker answered the all the queries raised by the students.
