Clinical Investigators Network The Biomedica Network of Clinical Investigators offers a comprehensive source for selecting qualified professional clinical investigators, investigative sites, independent contractors and laboratories in many geographic locations.We are a novel Primary Care Research Organization that provides clinical investigators with the necessary resources to conduct trials and interface with sponsors. Until recently, many pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotechnology companies relied on academic physicians and medical centers providing patients to perform drug trials. Today, industry's dependence on academia has weakened. Slow review of industry proposals and other delays has encouraged industry to turn away from academic medical centers to a growing for-profit marketplace whose key players are independent clinicals investigators. Evidence suggests that the commercial sector (CROs and community physicians) complete trials more rapidly and more cheaply than academic medical centers. Clinical investigators affiliated with Biomedica offer a very cost effective way to conduct protocols that involve multiple sites and many investigators. It is the ideal venue for companies that create their own study designs and contract with clinical researchers to implement the trial protocol. Academic clinical investigators affiliated with Biomedica do not require onerous office sponsor research agreements and sponsors can use central IRVs. Biomedica helps clinical investigators organize networks of community physicians, ensure rapid enrollment of patients, and deliver case-report forms to the sponsor. And indepedent review board guarantees the quality of data and complinace with protocol. Biomedica represents several medical centers and indepedented investigators that are transforming themselves into research networks to compete with the commercial drug-trial sector. Some are partnerships between academic medicine and community practice. If needed, Biomedica offers a single point of contact between industry and clinical researchers in academic and community sites, provides the administrative procedures associated with clinical trials in such areas as contracting, institutional-review-board approval, and project management. Academic research expertise and a large hospital and community-practice network provide additional resources unavailable to most commercial SMOs. We are a good alternative to the for-profit drug-trial entrepreneurs.