We Found The Best Clinical Site Sponsor Companies

Posted by: Sara Gambrill and Steve Zisson

Contract and budget issues for sponsor sites are most likely to bog down clinical studies, but Wyeth is one of the best in the industry at managing the process.

So say researchers and administrators at 612 clinical sites we at Thomson CenterWatch surveyed recently. We asked these front-line professionals which sponsor companies work best with investigative sites and found that overall, Wyeth, Lilly and Genentech came out in a dead heat at the top of the rankings. Lilly is no surprise, consistently ranking among the top three in our annual survey, but Wyeth’s shot to second this year is a wake-up call for the rest of the industry – Wyeth finished dead last in our 2003 survey.