Pharmaceutical Product Development Inc

American contract research organisation with its head office at Wilmington in North Carolina, founded in 1985 as Pharmaceutical Product Development and part of Thermo Fisher Scientific since 2021, working in about fifty countries. Runs clinical trials of all phases for medicine and biotechnology companies, including phase one units, site and patient recruitment, monitoring, data management and biostatistics, medical writing and regulatory submissions, pharmacovigilance and safety, and laboratory services covering bioanalysis, central labs, vaccine sciences and good manufacturing practice testing.