News - Irish American Business Chamber & Network (IABCN - Philadelphia)

Jun13Mon

Member News from Almac

Durham, N.C., USA – 13 June 2016 – Almac Group, the global contract development and manufacturing organisation, is pleased to announce that it’s Clinical Services Business has completed a successful US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspection of their Durham, North Carolina facility. The inspection was concluded on Thursday 9^th June 2016.

The non-scheduled FDA visit lasted three days. The inspection was extensive and a variety of documentation including validation, e-records and audits were reviewed. The requested documents covered deviation, change control, data integrity and training. There were no verbal or written observations and consequently no 483 was issued.

Member News: ICON Announces Service Agreement with Pfizer

ICON Announces Service Agreement with Pfizer

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)– ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR), a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today announced it has signed a three-year agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE). Under the terms of the agreement, Pfizer has the right to extend the term for up to an additional two years. Financial details of the agreement were not disclosed.

The new agreement builds on the companies’ existing relationship, under which ICON provides global expertise in the planning, execution, management and conduct of clinical trials.

Ciaran Murray, ICON’s CEO, commented: “The progression of our relationship with Pfizer is a recognition of ICON’s capabilities in supporting drug development efforts. We look forward to continuing our relationship with Pfizer to help advance its development pipeline and innovation in the drug development process.”

New York New Belfast Conference Materials

Follow up materials available

The seventh annual New York-New Belfast conference took place at the prestigious Fordham University – Lincoln Center.

The conference highlighted the bridges of progress and prosperity being built between the citizens of the two great cities of New York and Belfast, looking optimistically to the future while celebrating our shared past. Belfast’s delegation of community, cultural and business leaders will meet with their New York counterparts to discuss investment, embedding the peace, tourism, the arts and how they can work together to the mutual benefit of their communities.

Front and center in our discussions was the digital rise of Belfast, with a special focus on matchmaking between our partners, allowing Irish American organizations, businesses and institutions to showcase their offering to our Belfast delegation.

To view a webcast and materials from the conference, including “How can startup companies and ambitious entrepreneurs build transatlantic tech bridges?”, please click HERE. (simply sign in with email address, no need to create user name and password)

IABCN members, KPMG, Invest Northern Ireland, Northern Ireland Bureau, and Tourism Ireland were headline sponsors for this event.

Jun09Thu

Welcome New Members

Welcome new Irish Chamber members! Be sure to look out for new members at upcoming events. They will have maroon ribbons on their name tags.

Individual Members
– Frank McGee, The McGee Group LLC
– Joseph E. Vaughan, Esq., O’Hagan LLC
– Kathy Bellwoar, PPT Consulting LLC
– Ed Waters, Island Networks, Inc.
– Carl Cherkin, The Philadelphia Union
– John Branka, Standard Digital Imaging
– Tracy Gilvarry, Esq., Investment Fund & Financial Services Lawyer
– Kathleen McGarvey, Firstrust Bank
– Lori Greenawalt, Access Earth
– Chris Lawlor, Learn International
– Mike Riley, EthoSource, LLC
– Sean Kennedy, SK Strategies

Mid-Size Firm Members
– GREYHAWK, Ron Kerins and Jay Appleton
– Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management, Bob Sullivan and Pierre Chéry

Large Corporate Members
– Aer Lingus, Jeff Wright
– American Ireland Fund, Patrick Tully
– SmartInvest, Gerry Moan

Jun07Tue

Coming to Philadelphia this month!

For the first time in Philadelphia … Irish Legal 100: Irish Rising Stars
Award Ceremony & Event

Thursday, June 23rd at The Pyramid Club of Philadelphia

There has been support from every corner of the country, including top law schools like Harvard, Duke and Stanford. The Irish Chamber is proud to be a Presenting Partner for this inaugural event!

The Irish Legal 100 is America’s most powerful legal award that recognizes Irish success and pride.

The Irish Legal 100: Irish Rising Stars will include a national media & publicity campaign, Internet SEO effort, official logo, award photographs, newspaper edition, digital edition, boutique web site—and a spectacular by special invitation only event in Philadelphia.

Contact: Publicity & Promotion- irishleg100@aol.com , 917 687 2261

Jun06Mon

Member News: ICON-sponsored research by Carnegie Mellon University

ICON-sponsored research by Carnegie Mellon University validates shorter and simpler patient consent processes in clinical trials

Opportunities to reduce content on consent forms by over 80% and using video formats can improve patient comprehension and engagement

Dublin, Ireland, 7^th June – ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR) a global provider of drug development solutions and services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, today welcomed the results of ICON-supported research at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) which validate a shorter, simple approach to patient consent processes.

The results, which were recently published in Medical Decision Making journal, show that patient consent forms could be shortened by up to 86% without losing critical understanding or sacrificing the content required by ethics boards. The research also found greater patient engagement when using a shorter paper form or when using a video format, compared with more traditional, paper-based approaches.