Dispelling the Myth: Plug-and-Play Solutions in Clinical Trials

At the 11th Annual Outsourcing in Clinical Trials Nordics meeting in Copenhagen, a prevailing theme emerged – the importance of responsibility, transparency, and accountability in the relationship between contract research organizations (CROs) and sponsors. One key sentiment echoed by a speaker was the belief that there are no plug-and-play methods for outsourcing. We respectfully disagree.… Read more »

January | French King Cake

King Cake

Ingredients: – 2 sheets of puff pastry – 1 cup almond flour – 1/2 cup granulated sugar – 1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened – 2 eggs – 1/2 teaspoon almond extract – 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract – 1 egg yolk (for egg wash) – 1 tablespoon water (for egg wash) – A small trinket or… Read more »

The December FOCM | GLSA Networking Event

Dec 13, 2023 event   This was our 2023 year end networking event. It was a fun and casual event. People were encouraged to wear holiday hats. There were several cute and fun hats on display. We also heartily wished Happy birthday to Taylor Swift!   As per usual we shared our link to get… Read more »

The November FOCM | GLSA Networking Event

  November 15, 2023 As our passion is to connect people and companies we know and respect to other people and companies we know and respect, we open the meeting asking everyone to put the link to their LinkedIn profile in the chat. This facilitates future communication and connections.  Before we had our featured network… Read more »

The October FOCM | GLSA Networking Event

    October 18, 2023 As our passion is to connect people and companies we know, like and respect to other people and companies we know, like and respect, we open the meeting asking everyone to put the link to their LinkedIn profile in the chat. This facilitates future communication and connections.  Before we had… Read more »

DIA 2023 Observations

The first DIA Annual Conference that I attended was the one in 1997 in Montreal. If one could look back at each of them through time lapse photographs quite a story it would tell. In bullet format:  The growth of the CRO industry through mergers and acquisitions Scirex was the late night party sponsor Fax… Read more »

The May FOCM | GLSA Networking Event

May 17, 2023 As our passion is to connect people and companies we know and respect to other people and companies we know and respect, we open the meeting asking everyone to put the link to their LinkedIn profile in the chat. This facilitates future communication and connections.    Before we had our featured presenter… Read more »