MEDIAN Technologies will provide imaging services for a phase II study on lung cancer.
MEDIAN Technologies (ALMDT), a leading medical imaging software solutions developer and a service provider for image interpretation and management in oncology clinical trials, today announced that it has signed a contract with a San Francisco-area based biotech company. The contract amount is €384,000 (eq. $ 524,500).
MEDIAN Technologies will provide imaging services to support a phase II clinical trial for advanced non-small cell lung cancer. Within the framework of the study, imaging data will be acquired from 90 clinical sites, based in 12 European countries, in the US, and in Canada. Anticipated total enrollment is 440 patients with a “first patient in” forecasted May, 2014. MEDIAN will supply a set of services including clinical site qualification and training, as well as image and data collection, quality control, and storage.
“We are pleased to start 2014 supporting this important trial for a new, hypoxia-targeted therapy,” said Ciaran Cooper, Head of Business Development, Clinical Trials Imaging, North America. “Adding this new biotech client demonstrates that our imaging services bring value not only to major pharmaceutical companies, but to top biotechnology companies as well.”
Median Technologies develops medical imaging software and services dedicated to oncology clinical trials, cancer screening, and clinical practice. Median Technologies standardizes and automates the interpretation of medical images in oncology to optimize the diagnosis of cancer patients and the assessment of their response to therapy. Median serves two primary markets: drug development and patient care. Median has a strategic partnership with the world’s largest CRO (Contract Research Organization) to offer integrated imaging services for clinical trials to biopharma sponsors worldwide, and a strategic partnership with Canon to develop new imaging technologies, and to address the patient care market.