Dharmesh Shah, Product Development Team Lead at Bracket, spends his day job managing a talented team of software developers who develop a framework to build custom software used to conduct clinical trials (interactive voice response/web response systems).
As an employee...
As I started my career in the proposals department at Bracket, I have read through my fair share of protocols and Request for Proposals (RFPs), digging through these documents for information relevant toward writing a proposal and putting together the budget for...
There is no escaping your emails, especially now with smartphones. For many of us, it is the main form of communication for our professional, as well as personal life. Busy schedules and different time zones contribute to the fact that sometimes it’s just easier to email someone. As a result, you are...
Bracket is proud to encourage and support its employees to get involved in fundraising events that benefit their local or national charities. Bracket provides each of our global offices with a donation to be contributed to a charitable...
The British Neuroscience Association's biennial meeting in 2013 involved 18 learned societies with neuroscience interests who...
Wednesday was the last day of the annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference organized by Institute for International Research (IIR). The conference took place in Orlando, Florida and kicked off on Sunday, April 21st with the 2nd...
The 14th International Congress on Schizophrenia Research (ICOSR) is being held from April 21-25 at the JW Marriot Hotel Orlando Grande Lakes, Florida. Bracket’s Keith Wesnes, BSc Ph.D. FSS CPsychol...
March Madness is over, which means no more basketball games to look forward to watching, no more brackets to keep track of and no more money to be lost (or won!) on bets you've placed.
More than the obvious parallels that March Madness and business usually draw (the fact that...
Most people I know have a To-Do list that could stretch the length of three football fields. We struggle to knock items off our list, but the pesky things have a mind of their own and just keep growing. As you jump from task to task, your day slowly slips away from you and you realize you haven’t come up for...
American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) 2013 meeting took place at the San Diego Convention Center this past March, a meeting which provided to be successful for the neurologists and neuroscience professionals who attended. Despite the temptations of the warm weather and beautiful beaches, attendees were...
Bracket attended the International Society for CNS Drug Development (ISCDD)’s annual meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada - March 20 -22, 2013.
With highly engaging speakers, sessions were highly informative, interactive and produced fruitful discussion of topics such as "Developing Tools to Enable...
Arena International’s 4th Annual Outsourcing in Clinical Trials East Coast conference was held last week in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. Although an unexpected snow storm arrived in PA and the surrounding states the...
Last week’s Clinical Trial Supply New England conference at the Revere Hotel in Boston, MA, drew professionals from across clinical trials and commercial supply services, allowing for satisfying exchange between pharmaceutical and biotech sponsors with the partners providing service for them....
On Day 1 of the 11th International Conference on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease (AD/PD), I delivered an oral presentation in a Symposium on ...
The 11th International Conference on Alzheimer’s & Parkinson’s Disease (AD/PD) is taking place in Florence, Italy. Medical professionals from around the world are gathering to discuss cutting-edge research and new discoveries in neurodegenerative diseases....
Within the Hotel Palace Berlin, outside of the cold German winter, clinical supplies professionals and their partners came together to attend the 14th Annual Clinical Trial Supply Europe conference, held in Berlin, Germany, February 26 – 27th, 2013. Attendees included professionals from...
The ISCTM 9th Annual Scientific Meeting took place in Washington, D.C on 19 – 21 February. The International Society for CNS Clinical Trials and Methodology (ISCTM) is a multi-disciplinary independent organization, devoted to promoting advances that address strategic clinical, regulatory, methodological and...
On February 28th, 2013 from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Eastern Time, Bracket’s Professor Keith Wesnes will speak on a panel during a webinar hosted by Alzheimer Research Forum (Alzforum), entitled: “New Frontier: Developing Outcome Measures for Pre-dementia Trials.”
With over 40 years of experience...
Just steps away from the bustling Funabori subway station in Tokyo, clinical data management executives gathered to learn and network with colleagues at the 16th DIA Annual Workshop in Japan for Clinical Data Management.
This Tokyo based conference attracted a talented pool of speakers and clinical...
Bracket's first conference of the 2013 year started in Burlingame, California, a location convenient to Bracket's San Francisco eClinical office.
Originally called Dynarand, Bracket’s San Francisco eClinical office now is located in the South of Market (SOMA) part of San...
As the 2012 year comes to a close, December is a great time of the year to take a good look at the accomplishments that you have made at work and the impact that you have made within the company.
Look back through the past year. Start by taking a look at the year,...
The ISPOR 15th Annual European Congress By: Cindy Howry, Principal, ePRO Solutions The ISPOR 15th Annual European Congress was held in Berlin, Germany on 3-7 November, 2012 with over 3500 attendees represented by 75 countries. The Congress meetings focused on “Challenging Times for...
Hundreds of attendees came to the 11th Annual Partnerships in Clinical Trials conference, which took place November 7th – 8th at the CCH Congress Center in Hamburg, Germany. The focus of this year’s congress, which attracted clinical outsourcing attendees mostly from Europe, but included many delegates from...
Clinical supplies professionals are taxed with increasing responsibility to find ways to watch their project budgets as they maintain integrity of their work. Specifically in trials with expensive, hard-to-obtain drug, it becomes a difficult quest to find solutions to maintain costs in an...
With more than 4,300 members attending the Alzheimer’s Association International Congress (AAIC)’s annual meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada this past July 14 – 19, 2012, the meeting was a lively exchange of fresh ideas of innovative research. Topics of...
In late July, Dr. Joan Busner, PhD, Therapeutic Leader in child and adolescent psychiatric disorders, and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Penn State College of Medicine, spoke on behalf of Bracket in a one hour online presentation regarding clinical data...
The primary mechanism for evaluating drug efficacy in modern pharmaceutical development has been the randomized clinical trial. With an endless array of designs and structures, two components remain consistent: the use of a drug intervention and the use of a placebo. Understanding the...
The Movement Disorders Society held their 16th International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders from June 17-21 in Dublin, Ireland. Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder after Alzheimer's disease, and research into...
The 52nd NCDEU Annual Meeting was held during the last week of May in Phoenix, Arizona. NCDEU has become one of the premier forums for discussions regarding the methodologies of effective and reliable psychiatry research.
One important issue that has confounded psychiatry researchers for many years has been...
Alzheimer’s disease is a devastating disease. According to the Alzheimer’s Association’s 2012 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures, 5.4 million Americans are living with the disease,...
Cognitive impairments can be debilitating. Cognitive deficits are well associated with many diseases, especially devastating Central Nervous System diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, schizophrenia, and Parkinson’s disease. But there are a diverse set of factors that can all introduce a...
Bracket announced recently that it has joined the ePRO Consortium, a pre-competitive gathering of Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes vendors organized by the Critical Path Institute. Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) are now a critical component of nearly all clinical research...
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