Government and Public Health

Government agencies, non-profit, academic, biotech, and biopharma organizations require an expert, full-service clinical research partner that understands their specific requirements. Leveraging decades of experience gained from projects similar to yours, we offer dedicated resources with immediate reach-back to more than 120,000 in-house experts to deliver your projects’ needs.

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Trusted government and public health services

For 35 years, the PPD™ clinical research business of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s dedicated government and public health services group has successfully delivered services to various agencies, contractors and non-profits in both prime contractor and subcontractor capacities within full compliance of all federal contracting requirements.

Key agencies include, but are not limited to:

  • National Institutes of Health
  • Department of Defense
  • Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority
  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

We also support biotech and biopharma client partners with their government-funded programs and consultative needs. Our services have supported these organizations in conducting a broad span of therapeutic, vaccine and medical device studies around the world.

Comprehensive clinical development solutions

We currently support more than 55 active projects, spanning hundreds of protocols, for government-funded partners.

To meet the unique needs of the various programs, we offer quality performance and solutions that span all phases of clinical development – we have:

  • The ability to work at our clients’ preferred sites, our site networks, early phase clinical research units (CRUs), more than 80 veteran administration (VA) hospitals, and more
  • Dedicated peri- and post-approval in-house expertise
  • Novel, data-driven approaches to site and patient access
  • Comprehensive suite of lab services that cover trials globally

Our innovative trial design and technology offerings include:

  • Coordinating center support for multi-service / multi-protocol programs
  • Leveraging wearables and decentralized and virtual trials
  • Proven strategies for enrolling representative patient populations
  • Rapid response and medical counter measures
  • Adaptive trial designs
  • Accelerated patient enrollment solutions

We provide strategic partnership and local expertise in clinical research to protect and enhance global public health.

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