EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP, RAPID RESPONSE, AND EXACTLY MATCHED TALENT

Clinical

For most pharma companies, developing profitable treatments is becoming more difficult. The Evanston Group can help you manage the challenges and get your products to market. Across both clinical development and clinical operations, our consultants have many decades of deep experience at every stage of even the most complex clinical studies.

TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND TOP EXPERTISE TO HELP DRIVE CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS

Demand for medicines is rising, particularly biologics and treatments for rare disorders. Getting those medicines through clinical trials is complex, and that’s where The Evanston Group comes in.

Successfully completing high-complexity clinical trials requires leaders with extensive experience developing and managing complex clinical programs. But those leaders can be hard to find. That’s where The Evanston Group helps. We specialize in providing professional industry experience to support your clinical skill gaps across both clinical development (e.g. clinical trial physicians and clinical leaders building protocols) and clinical operations (e.g. study management and CRAs). We help clients that have all of their clinical in-house as well as clients who outsource to a clinical research organization (in which case we are providing CRO oversight) – and everywhere in between.

DELIVERING VALUE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF CLINICAL ENGAGEMENTS

Cross-functional and Clinical Study Leadership (Phases 1-4)

Including contract research organization (CRO) oversight

Clinical Portfolio Management

Clinical Research Associates (CRAs)

Clinical Trial Design & Management

Clinical Compliance
Including audit readiness and pre-submission documentation internal training and SOPs

Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) Implementation & Adoption
Including Veeva Vault

Therapeutic Area (TA) Subject Matter Experts
Including study physicians, scientists, medical monitors, and principal & reliability engineers

35+ CLINICAL PROJECT MANAGERS FOR REPATRIATION FROM CRO AND POST-MERGER INTEGRATION OF GLOBAL CLINICAL OPERATIONS

For 4 years, we’ve partnered with the VP of Clinical Operations and Program Management to enable high-quality project delivery and greater control over project outcomes.

The Evanston Group initially engaged with this Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company when the VP of Clinical Operations and Program Management needed help to bring clinical project management back in‐house after outsourcing it to contract research organization (CRO) partners. (The client needed higher quality project delivery and greater control over project outcomes than the CROs were providing.)

We helped the client successfully repatriate those functions and the VP engaged us again to help merge and integrate the people, processes, systems, and ongoing clinical studies and data within the global Clinical Operations Functions after the acquisition of another Fortune 500 pharma.

Across both engagements, over the last four years The Evanston Group has provided a team of 35+ consultants, including specialized project and portfolio-level leaders, business process consultants, and subject matter experts (including financial budgeting, clinical documentation, and MHRA audit preparation).

LEAD CRAS AND CLINICAL PROJECT MANAGERS PROVIDE CRO OVERSIGHT AND DRIVE HIGH-PRIORITY CLINICAL STUDIES

The Evanston Group is helping this emerging biotech leader develop a high-priority vaccine.

The Evanston Group was introduced to this emerging biotech leader by the new Chief Development Officer, who had been an SVP at another of our client organizations. The client was preparing to launch clinical trials for a very high-priority vaccine – an initiative that obviously required an A-team, but for which the client didn’t want to move leaders from other products (at risk of sacrificing those products).

So the client turned to us for help building a team almost entirely of consultants to lead what could be the company’s biggest program. To the client’s internal team of three we added ten consultants, including a couple of lead Clinical Research Associates (CRAs) and several clinical project managers, to provide CRO oversight and drive the Phase 2 and Phase 3 clinical trials.

INTERIM VP OF TRANSFORMATION TO TRANSITION CLINICAL MODEL FROM CRO TO FSP

Up to the highest levels, we help drive clinical transformation.

This Fortune 1000 pharma approached The Evanston Group for help transitioning their clinical model from contract research organization (CRO) to functional service provider (FSP). We provided the client with a clinical subject matter expert to serve as the interim Vice President of Transformation leading the project. Alongside that expert, we brought in a couple of consultants to help document the client’s current state process and map out the future state process. Once that SOP was created, we brought in a clinical training specialist to help drive the adoption of the new processes within the client’s clinical operations team.

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what our customers say

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“Knowing how to match consultants with the industry knowledge who can jump right in, hit the ground running, and make it work for clients is why The Evanston Group is a top-notch organization from top to bottom.”
- Senior Project Manager and Clinical Researcher

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“Placing hard to find, adaptable people with very specialized backgrounds and a working knowledge of projects that are more complex to run is how The Evanston Group differentiates from others in the market.”
- Clinical Manager specializing in rare disease

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“My expectations were exceeded by the caliber of people The Evanston Group brings in. When I am looking for a special mix of talents, skills and background, The Evanston Group has been able to find and screen a very high quality set of resources. They are immediately right on target.”
- Senior Vice President, $10B medical devices company

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“It is rare when a company and its associates can exemplify so many wonderful values with forethought and respect for those in their employ.”
- Software Engineer Consultant, Johnson & Johnson

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EXPERIENCED LEADERSHIP, RAPID RESPONSE, AND EXACTLY MATCHED TALENT

Clinical

TWO DECADES OF EXPERIENCE AND TOP EXPERTISE TO HELP DRIVE CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS

Demand for medicines is rising, particularly biologics and treatments for rare disorders. Getting those medicines through clinical trials is complex, and that’s where The Evanston Group comes in.

DELIVERING VALUE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF CLINICAL ENGAGEMENTS