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07/04/2009
NI Firm's Innovation Accelerates Drug Trials
A Northern Ireland-based global pharmaceutical services provider has announced a major new application of technology to bring drugs to the market more quickly.
Almac Group, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard's software technology has invested millions of pounds investment in software known as HP Quality Centre software.
This allows a significant advancement in the speed at which clinical trials can be completed.
It will mean that trials for potentially life saving drugs, such as the treatment of cancer and associated illness, will be accelerated using HP's software.
Almac Chairman Sir Allen McClay (pictured right) said that the new technology will help speed the move from innovation to clinical practice resulting in significant market advantage and enhanced competitiveness for its customers.
"We are continually looking for opportunities to reduce the time during which a drug is in the clinical trial stages of development," he said.
"Over the last 15 years our relationship with HP has extended far beyond hardware and software; we are engaging with people who can bring innovative technology solutions to science and produce something mutually beneficial," he explained.
The new HP toolset and automated testing processes will significantly accelerate the complex software compliance and validation process involved in the drug development process.
Also commenting, Martin Murphy, Managing Director of HP in Northern Ireland (pictured left) said: "HP has produced a tailored software system that enables Almac to shorten the validation aspects of software development supporting clinical trials ensuring that it can meet manufacturing best practice globally.
"By shortening that cycle, even by a week, can have a huge impact on the sponsor's bottom line."
Almac is now part of a small number of companies globally to have achieved full Pharmaceutical Validation for HP Quality Center software enabling it to automate its approach to software validation and testing.
(BMcC/JM)
Almac Group, in partnership with Hewlett-Packard's software technology has invested millions of pounds investment in software known as HP Quality Centre software.
This allows a significant advancement in the speed at which clinical trials can be completed.
It will mean that trials for potentially life saving drugs, such as the treatment of cancer and associated illness, will be accelerated using HP's software.
Almac Chairman Sir Allen McClay (pictured right) said that the new technology will help speed the move from innovation to clinical practice resulting in significant market advantage and enhanced competitiveness for its customers.
"We are continually looking for opportunities to reduce the time during which a drug is in the clinical trial stages of development," he said.
"Over the last 15 years our relationship with HP has extended far beyond hardware and software; we are engaging with people who can bring innovative technology solutions to science and produce something mutually beneficial," he explained.
The new HP toolset and automated testing processes will significantly accelerate the complex software compliance and validation process involved in the drug development process.
Also commenting, Martin Murphy, Managing Director of HP in Northern Ireland (pictured left) said: "HP has produced a tailored software system that enables Almac to shorten the validation aspects of software development supporting clinical trials ensuring that it can meet manufacturing best practice globally.
"By shortening that cycle, even by a week, can have a huge impact on the sponsor's bottom line."
Almac is now part of a small number of companies globally to have achieved full Pharmaceutical Validation for HP Quality Center software enabling it to automate its approach to software validation and testing.
(BMcC/JM)
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