Company Awards

Avance Clinical is an Australian and North American market-leading Contract Research Organization (CRO) that provides international biotechs with customized solutions. For the fourth consecutive year, Avance Clinical has been awarded Best Practices Customer Value Leadership awarded, by Frost and Sullivan, for its exceptional performance

San Antonio, TX — 7 August 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the Asia-Pacific biotechnology contract research organization industry and, based on its findings, recognizes Avance Clinical with the 2023 Customer Value Leadership Award. The company is a leading CRO with over 20 years of experience and provides comprehensive clinical research services to drug sponsors worldwide.

Avance Clinical’s services span the entire clinical trial process, from early-stage development to late-stage studies, supporting the ever-evolving demands of biotechnology research and development. It offers up-to-date strategic guidance on study design, regulatory compliance, and protocol development, ensuring trials comply with the rigorous requirements of regulatory authorities globally.

With its commitment to delivering first-class services, Avance Clinical has a strong track record of achievement in biotechnology research, and its unwavering devotion to quality has earned it a reputation as a trustworthy partner in pioneering biotech innovations. The company consistently forms strategic partnerships with leading academic institutions, research organizations, and clinical trial sites to gain access to innovative technologies and a network of experienced professionals. Through these partnerships, Avance Clinical incorporates the latest developments into its offerings and stays abreast of emerging biotechnology and clinical research trends.

“The company understands the intricacies of conducting clinical trials for innovative biopharmaceutical products, gene and cell therapies, and other advanced therapies. Its experts possess deep scientific knowledge and expertise in handling biotech’s clinical trial complexities, including specialized protocols, biomarker analysis, and pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics assessments,” said Azza Fazar, Best Practices Research Associate at Frost & Sullivan.

As a reflection of the tremendous value the company delivers to its customers, Avance Clinical’s flagship program, GlobalReady, has gained traction among biotech stakeholders. GlobalReady provides customers with substantial benefits, including time reduction, cost savings, and high-quality data generation, approved by the United States (US) Food and Drug Association (FDA).

Furthermore, with the newly opened North American headquarters in Wake Forest, North Carolina, Avance Clinical offers enhanced services in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. The GlobalReady program streamlines the process and minimizes disruptions, cutting clinical trials’ time and cost by seamlessly facilitating the transition of early-to-late phase studies from customers in Australia and the US.

“The GlobalReady program has gained significant traction, embraced by over 50 biotech clients. In addition, the attractive 43.5% rebate on clinical spending in Australia allows the company’s clients to utilize its expertise and team in North America while maintaining services in Australia. This strategic approach enables clients to maximize rebate potential while leveraging Avance Clinical’s North American operations knowledge and capabilities,” noted Umesh Lal, Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. With its strong overall performance, Avance Clinical earns Frost & Sullivan’s 2023 Customer Value Leadership Award in the Asia-Pacific biotechnology contract research organization industry.

Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that demonstrates excellence in implementing strategies that proactively create value for its customers, focusing on improving the return on the investment that customers make in its services or products. The award recognizes Avance Clinical for its unique focus on augmenting its customers’ value, beyond simply good customer service, leading to improved customer retention and customer base expansion.

Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognize companies in various regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analyses, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.

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About Avance Clinical

Avance Clinical is the largest premium full-service Australian and North American CRO delivering quality clinical trials, with globally accepted data, in Australia, New Zealand and the US for international biotechs. The company’s clients are biotechs in their drug development phases that need fast, agile, and adaptive solution-oriented clinical research services.

Pre-clinical through to Phase I and Beyond

Avance Clinical offers pre-clinical consultancy services with their experienced ClinicReady team right through to Phase I and beyond clinical services leveraging significant Government incentive rebates of up to 43.5% and rapid start-up regulatory processes that are available in Australia.

With experience across more than 110 therapeutic indications, Avance Clinical can deliver world-class, high-quality, internationally accepted data suitable for FDA and EMA review.

Technology

Avance Clinical uses state-of-the-art technology and gold-standard systems across all functional areas to provide clients with the most effective processes. Medidata, Oracle, Zelta, Veeva and Medrio are just some of Avance’s technology partners.

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Adelaide, Australia | San Diego, USA – Avance Clinical the leading award-winning Australian and North American CRO that offers the programs ClinicReady and GlobalReady for early-phase biotech companies to speed up the path to regulatory approval, has been invited to join the Global Health Summit campaign which will be featured on Reuters.

Avance Clinical CEO, Yvonne Lungershausen, Chief Scientific Officer Gabriel Kremmidiotis, and Head of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Jorgen Mould are interviewed in a new Global Health video featured on Reuters news service about the importance of quality clinical trials as part of the drug development process.

The campaign is a collection of interviews and video documentaries, highlighting international business leaders and healthcare specialists from various industries. The series will showcase organisations spearheading specific health initiatives, developing ground-breaking medicine and complex health technologies, and taking on the challenges of both physical and mental health globally.

The Global Health program launches at the upcoming Global Health Summit on 25-27 May 2023 at the prestigious Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, bringing together 100 leaders and executives from various sectors of the Private and Public Healthcare Industry.

The event will feature round table discussions where participants will discuss strategies, share knowledge and expertise, and identify opportunities for collaboration. This will be complemented by keynote speeches and panel discussions that will explore the latest trends and emerging issues in the healthcare industry.

Avance Clinical CEO, Yvonne Lungershausen and Executive VP North American Operations John Mann will be attending the Global Health Summit and Yvonne will be a leading panelist.

Avance Clinical is at the cutting edge of clinical trial technology and has recently been ranked as the world leader in DCT technology adoption by GlobalData and Clinical Trial Arena in the CRO sector.

The report found 46% of Avance Clinical’s trials incorporated some elements of DCT technologies in 2022 including telemedicine, remote monitoring, and digital data collection.

The DCT report also noted that Avance Clinical’s staff training in the latest technologies was a key factor in the ranking. See the full report here

Avance Clinical’s unique clinical offering GlobalReady enables biotechs that have completed early to mid-phases in Australia to rapidly and seamlessly transition to the US in preparation for FDA approvals, all with the one CRO and dedicated teams across both regions, which reduces time and cost and delivers quality data.

There are currently more than 280 Phase III global trials that have conducted their Phase I study in Australia, which demonstrates Australian data acceptability with the FDA and other major regulatory authorities.

More than 40 biotech clients are now taking advantage of Avance Clinical’s GlobalReady program.

This seamless GlobalReady journey is designed so biotechs can:

• Take advantage of the Australian early-phase clinical trial landscape (No IND and 43.5% tax rebate)                   
• Transition or expand into North America for later phases – without changing CROs (retain study knowledge and processes/team)
• Seamlessly operationalize global dose-escalation and dose-expansion trials across the two regions
• Harness significant speed and cost advantages
• Be assured of quality data – transferable and readily acceptable by the FDA and other regulatory authorities

Find out more:

Learn about the Australian Advantage here 

Learn about the ClinicReady model here

Learn about the GlobalReady model here

or more information about the benefits of running your next study with Avance Clinical

contact us: enquiries@avancecro.com

About Avance Clinical

Avance Clinical is the largest premium full-service Australian and US CRO delivering quality clinical trials, with globally accepted data, in Australia, New Zealand and the US for international biotechs. The company’s clients are biotechs in their early phases of drug development that need fast, agile, and adaptive solution-oriented clinical research services.

Frost & Sullivan Awards

Avance Clinical, a Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award recipient for the past three years, has been providing CRO services in the region for more than 24 years.

Pre-clinical through to Phase 1 and 2

Avance Clinical offers pre-clinical services with their experienced ClinicReady team right through to Phase 1 and 2 clinical services leveraging significant Government incentive rebates of up to 43.5% and rapid start-up regulatory processes.

With experience across more than 110 indications, the CRO can deliver world-class results and high-quality internationally accepted data for FDA and EMA review.

Technology

Avance Clinical uses state-of-the-art technology and gold-standard systems across all functional areas to provide clients with the most effective processes. Medidata, Oracle, IBM Watson and Medrio are just some of the technology partners.

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Adelaide, Australia – Avance Clinical, the largest premium Australian Contract Research Organisation (CRO) for international biotechs, has been selected as a finalist for the Best Contract Research Organization in APAC by Informa Pharma Intelligence.

Avance Clinical has undergone significant expansion in recent years, including new offices in Sydney and Melbourne to accommodate the growing clinical team in Australia.

The award winner will be announced on 1 September 2022. The finalists are:

• Avance Clinical
• Calyx
• CMIC Group
• EPS
• ICON
• Parexel
• Syneos Health

Avance Clinical’s CEO Yvonne Lungershausen said:

“Avance Clinical is extremely pleased to be selected as a finalist for this prestigious award. It is a credit to our amazing customer-focused team for delivering the CRO excellence that has been recognized by the Informa Pharma Intelligence award judges.

“Avance Clinical has a global reputation for agile clinical solutions to support accelerated clinical development for our international biotech clients. We are very proud of our growth and success in APAC in recent years.”

According to Informa Pharma Intelligence:

This Award is to recognize CROs that provide full or specialist services to their clients and which have an office in either in Japan or the Asia region including Australia.

Judging considers the quality of services and relationships built with clients and pays particular attention to the innovative patient recruitment strategies the CRO has brought to the table.

The award is based on achievements in the 2021 calendar year.

Core areas judged include:

• The particular capabilities and strengths the CRO offers
• How the company has delivered results that exceed sponsor expectations
• Innovations in patient recruitment strategy has the CRO brought to its partner
• How it has improved its performance, for example, in its quality of data, timelines and transparency
• The steps the company is taking towards streamlining data collection and reporting

To find out more please visit: https://pharmaintelligence.informa.com/events/awards/japan-awards-2022/shortlist-2022

Avance Clinical recently secured a significant investment from global private equity firm, The Riverside Company (Riverside), to support further regional and global expansion.

The investment values the company in excess of $200m.

 “With the support of Riverside and its powerful global footprint and deep healthcare experience, Avance Clinical will execute on its regional and international expansion plans organically and via acquisitions,” said Lungershausen.

Avance Clinical is the Australian-owned CRO that provides global regulatory standard clinical research services across all phases to the local and international biopharma industry.

The company is also accredited as a gene technology CRO under the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) which has allowed it to expand into clinical trials for vaccines and GMO therapies.

“We have shown, with our high growth and industry-leading repeat business rates that our focus on gold standard technology paired with solution-orientated clinical experts is the mix our biopharma clients require in this fast-moving, competitive and high-stakes sector,” said Lungershausen.

Avance Clinical has been recognised for the past two consecutive years with the prestigious Frost & Sullivan CRO Best Practices Award.

Find out more:

• Learn about the Australian Advantage here https://www.avancecro.com/the-australian-advantage/
• Read more about Avance Clinical’s cell and gene therapy capabilities here www.avancecro.com/avance-clinical-featured-in-endpoints-news-on-cell-gene-therapy-capabilities/
• For more information about the benefits of running your next study with Avance Clinical contact us: enquiries@avancecro.com

About Avance Clinical

Avance Clinical is the largest premium full-service Australian CRO delivering quality clinical trials, with globally accepted data, in Australia and New Zealand for international biotechs. The company’s clients are biotechs in their early phases of drug development that need fast, agile, and adaptive solution-oriented clinical research services.

Frost & Sullivan Awards

Avance Clinical, a Frost & Sullivan Asia-Pacific CRO Market Leadership Award recipient for the past two years, has been providing CRO services in the region for 24 years.

Pre-clinical through to Phase 1 and 2

Avance Clinical offers pre-clinical services with their experienced ClinicReady team right through to Phase 1 and 2 clinical services leveraging significant Government incentive rebates of up to 43.5% and rapid start-up regulatory processes.

With experience across more than 105 indications, the CRO can deliver world-class results and high-quality internationally accepted data for FDA and EMA review.

Technology

Avance Clinical uses state-of-the-art technology and gold standard systems across all functional areas to provide clients with the most effective processes. Medidata, Oracle, and Medrio are just some of the technology partners.