Global central laboratory services
The central lab that provides high quality, reliable and standardized data
Our integrated solutions deliver best-in-class customer service with cutting-edge science and technology. Our global harmonized systems, project management and scientific oversight ensure seamless and effective solutions.
Clinical trial sponsors want fast, accurate, and reliable data to successfully manage their clinical trials. It’s critical to engage a central lab that ensures consistent test methodologies, equipment and reporting standards, which drives standardization, accuracy and reliability of data across multiple study sites. Our global central lab helps enable informed decision-making, drive site excellence and address challenges that drug developers face. Through our award-winning drug development database solution, globally standardized clinical testing and centralized data visibility, our team empowers customers to make more informed decisions about their trials.
We are dedicated to helping customers make faster, more informed decisions about their clinical trials through our award-winning drug development database solution, globally standardized clinical testing and centralized data visibility. Our central lab provides an integrated, flexible, one-stop solution for the collection, management and analysis of lab and study data, and an enhanced clinical focus.
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Explore how our central lab’s services and novel insights dramatically accelerate your drug development.
Access real-time laboratory data with our award-winning Preclarus™ lab solutions
When working with a large amount of lab data, powerful digital tools that provide data integration in real time allow for insights to help inform clinical decisions. But finding a lab service provider with the required expertise can be a challenge. Our award-winning Preclarus Lab solutions centralize and integrate data across labs to guide, accelerate and advance our customers’ development efforts.
Global support for customers’ programs across the U.S., Europe and Asia
Our global network of laboratories has the ability to accommodate even the largest and most complex studies.
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Our Suzhou lab provides bioanalytical, biomarker, vaccine sciences and central laboratory services. With well-trained and experienced scientific and operational talent, combined with the strong support of PPD global experts, our laboratory helps accelerate your drug development process with delivery of high-quality critical data.
Directly shorten the clinical study timeline
Investment in people to make a difference
We maintain a people-first focus investing in our staff, fostering strong relationships with customers and driving initiatives to benefit patients. We believe that excellence is not a single action, but a habit built through regular training. We invest in our people by developing their careers. Our staff members are part of a global community, regardless of location or industry specialty. That’s why we created a collaborative training community and knowledge share program to invest in the future of our employees’ success.
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FAQs
A central laboratory provides standardized testing, sample management and laboratory data management across clinical trial sites. Using consistent methodologies, equipment and reporting standards improves the accuracy, reliability and comparability of study data.
A global central laboratory harmonizes testing and data across countries and study sites. PPD Laboratory services support programs through laboratories in the U.S., Europe and Asia, enabling sponsors to manage large, complex clinical trials using consistent processes and reporting standards. Our central lab improves data quality through harmonized systems, standardized procedures, centralized oversight, and automated data integration tools.
Our PPD Central Lab offers safety and efficacy testing, plus hematology, chemistry, biomarker, pharmacodynamic and genomic testing. Additional capabilities include anatomic pathology, immunology, flow cytometry, molecular assays, microbiology, protein analysis, proteomics and urinalysis.
Preclarus Lab Solutions, our proprietary laboratory data management platform, centralizes and integrates clinical trial laboratory data in real time. Preclarus supports earlier protocol planning with a streamlined protocol setup, reduces data queries, supports real-time reconciliation, and provides dashboards and portals for investigators and sponsors.
Results from our laboratories and third-party labs go directly into the Preclarus database without an additional normalization or standardization step. Sponsors, project teams, and sites can access, visualize, search, and manage real-time study data to support faster decisions and data reconciliation.
PPD Laboratory services’ central lab provides sample tracking, kit supply support, accessioning, processing, aliquoting, storage, biorepository services and shipment to third-party laboratories. End-to-end tracking and chain-of-custody processes protect sample integrity from collection through testing or long-term storage.
With early engagement, we support biomarker development, fast and accurate study startup, integrated data management, resulting in minimized delays during database lock. The average timeline from final protocol to kits at sites is 12 weeks.
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If you are an investigator site and need immediate assistance, please call our central lab investigator support services hotline.
Americas: 1-859-781-8877 or 1-800-323-2996
Europe: +32 2 275 2127 ext. 4300
Asia Pacific: +65 6594 6210