Career Scope In Clinical Research

Posted by CBCC VIBGYOR on April 29th, 2016

Clinical research happens to be a multi-disciplinary, multi-billion, multinational industry that is rapidly budding in various parts of the world. It mainly deals with systematic trial of new medicines that are sometimes conducted on humans for testing the efficacy and safety of these medicines. It is that branch of medical science that relates itself with the effectiveness and safety of medications, diagnostic products, equipment, and treatment courses that are to be used for human treatments. The clinical research organization in India is mainly dedicated to this task and has been pretty active in recent years.

As per Drug Development segment of all major CROs of India, the clinical research trials are mainly done for prevention, diagnosis, relief, or treatment of specific symptoms of several diseases. The process takes place mainly in four phases. However, before a drug is tested on humans it is first tested in laboratories. The first phase then consists of testing of drug over some healthy individuals. The researchers mainly choose a group of 20-80 people to test the safety tolerance. Pharmacodynamics, and pharmacokinetics of the drug.

In the second stage, the treatment or the medication is given to larger group of people like 100-300 individuals to see its effectiveness. It is to be noted that the second phase is initiated only when the results from first phase are confirmed. It mainly helps in assessing how efficiently the drug effects its subjects and see the safety range of its dosage. In the third phase, the group extends to 1000-5000 people to see how it effects larger diversity of gene pools and add more safety data to its reports. And in the last phase which is also called as post-marketing surveillance, the safety surveillance takes place and once the permission for trade is obtained technical support is sought. The last phase is extended to rather a much expanded group of people. The trials may occur only when FDA has approved the drug for common use.

There are lots and lots of career opportunities for researchers and science grads in this field. You can always pursue jobs in various high level labs, for e.g., the Core laboratory India , or get into technical support like medical imaging services in clinical trials, etc. In India alone, there are around 360 small and big CROs that are currently operational in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Gurgaon, Delhi, as well Mumbai. It is an independent industry which has its own norms and regulations. There are several pharmaceutical companies in India which have their own CROs established in the zones.

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