Following the recent announcement from Manchester-based Synexus
that they had randomised 2,700 patients in just ten months for an
osteoporosis study, the company has once again demonstrated that it is
possible to recruit the agreed number of patients within the study
deadline by recruiting 87% of patients to another study for the same
therapeutic area.
This trial, for a major biotech, involved eleven of Synexus’ twenty six
dedicated recruitment centres across the UK, Europe and South Africa.
There were nine US sites also taking part. Of the 565 patients that were
randomised, Synexus recruited 494 over an average of eighteen weeks per
site, with the Polish and South African sites recruiting significantly
above their targets.
Synexus Chief Executive, Michael Fort, says this most recent
achievement, hot on the heels of their last success in this area, helps
to demonstrate that his company is consistently delivering some of the
best clinical trials recruitment results in the global marketplace: “Yet
again these results show that the Synexus recruitment model is working
consistently throughout our sites in the UK, Europe and in South Africa.
We have quite clearly out-performed recruitment in the U.S and there is
no doubt that this is down to our dedicated recruitment centres being
managed and run by professional, full-time investigators who can look
after and process the large number of patients that we screen and
randomise following the success of our marketing campaigns across the
board and our outreach work in parts of Central and Eastern Europe and
South Africa.