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Clinical research in Asia: a brief overview

Abstract:

Starting with a brief background of the drug development cycle, Chapter 1 delves into the global pharmaceutical market and key global pharmaceutical players in terms of market size and their clinical research initiatives. This chapter briefly discusses the clinical research business, the global market and key players and contract research organisations (CROs). It further narrows down to describe the clinical research boom and key players in Asia and undertakes a country segmentation analysis of Asia. This chapter summarises the number of trials undertaken in Asia, inspections and audits performed in Asia and outlines a SWOT analysis.

1.1 Background

Clinical research forms the backbone ...

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