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Labcorp Drug Development

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Also known as Covance

Fortrea Holdings Inc. is an American contract research organization organized in Delaware and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina with operations in 90 countries. Its customers are primarily in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

Research organization · ROR

Type
Company
Founded
1968
Location
Princeton, United States
Status
Active

GRID grid.417600.4 · ISNI 0000 0004 0456 5260

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Encyclopedic overview

13 sections
Contents
  • History
  • 1968–1999
  • 2000-present
  • Controversies
  • Reston virus: monkeys with ebola virus brought to U.S.
  • Animal welfare issues
  • Reports from investigative journalists
  • Celebrity protests of business expansion
  • Animal welfare citations by the United States Department of Agriculture
  • Deaths of lab monkeys due to hyperthermia
  • Broken bone injuries in monkeys
  • References
  • External links

Fortrea Holdings Inc. is an American contract research organization organized in Delaware and headquartered in Durham, North Carolina with operations in 90 countries. Its customers are primarily in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device industries.

Its primary business is handling all aspects of clinical trials including phase I through IV clinical trial management, clinical pharmacology, and post-approval services. It handles regulatory affairs, protocol design, operational planning, study and site start-up, patient recruitment, project management, monitoring, data management and biostatistics, pharmacovigilance, medical writing, and mobile clinical services. It focuses on oncology, central nervous system and neurodegenerative, rare diseases, and cell and gene therapies. In the five years ending in 2023, it conducted more than 5,850 clinical trials involving over 1 million subjects. It also conducted over 600 studies for medical device companies.

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