Linking Sponsors and Pre-Qualified Sites

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Synergyst Research Group is a trial management organization that works with independently owned, multi-specialty medical groups as an “administrative arm,” providing study start services.

We work closely with sponsors and CROs to pre-qualify research sites throughout the United States.

Our services include:

• Finding appropriate studies
• Timely document turnaround
• Site visit coordination and preparation
• Contract/budget negotiations
• Patient recruitment support

This allows sites to focus on patient recruitment, retention and quality data entry.

Study contracts are established between the sponsors and the research sites.

Please contact Sheri Campbell, vice president for business development, if you are interested in placing any current or upcoming studies at our pre-qualified, experienced research sites. She can be reached by email at sheri@synergyst.net or by calling 210-591-1157.

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Beating the IQ myth

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Can you make yourself smarter?

Researchers are finding more and more flaws with the long-held belief that we are born with a certain level of intelligence that remains the same throughout our lives. They are saying, essentially, that we can raise our levels of intelligence – every single day.

Two studies were highlighted in a recent post on the Fast Company blog, and the upshot was that “relentless persistence,” developing new habits and rewiring our brains, can make us more intelligent and ultimately more successful.

The blog post highlighted three things we can do every day to make ourselves smarter, all based on the concept of relentless persistence and habit-building:

Master the art of habits: Doing something persistently and consistently increases our intelligence levels.  Stanford University researchers B.J. Fogg has developed a free five-day system called Tiny Habits that helps develop new habits through small steps.

Engage in percentage thinking: Look at past results when we’re setting goals, and use them to create success. For example, if we set a goal of 10 new customers from 10 new meetings, and the first one falls through, we fail. Instead, we need to understand that in the past it took 100 new meetings to get 10 new customers and pursue the goal of 10 percent return.

Exercise: The habit of working out is, according to Charles Duhigg’s book “The Power of Habit,” is a keystone habit, a way to develop other good habits. Duhigg, a writer at the New York Times, took an in-depth look at why habits exist and how they can be changed.

Learn more about what we do at the Synergyst Research website.

Digital Advertising Spending Reaches $99 Billion in 2012

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Online advertising accounted for almost 20 percent of all advertising worldwide in 2012, a total of $99 billion, according to a new report.

At the same time, print media continued its steady decline, falling to 24 percent of ad expenditures in 2012, according to “This Year, Next Year: Interaction 2013,” a report by media investment management company GroupM. When digital advertising first was tracked consistently, in 1995, print made up 48 percent of the total.

The $99 billion in online advertising in 2012 was a 16.2 percent increase from 2011 and is now 19.5 percent of all advertising worldwide.

GroupM projects online advertising spending will grow to $113.5 billion this year, including $39.7 billion in the United States. That represents 25.4 percent of all advertising in the United States.

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Report Shows Texas’ Dedication to Medical Research Studies

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Since 1999, researchers have conducted more than 8,200 research studies in Texas, according to a new report.

Research in Your Backyard: Developing Cures, Creating Jobs was released at a recent news conference in Austin. It was prepared in support of a bill pending in the Texas Legislature that would provide a research and development tax credit.

Dr. Curtis Triplett, an assistant professor of diabetes medicine at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Texas Diabetes Institute, said university medical schools and science centers, local hospitals and private clinical research facilities have conducted 8,254 research studies since 1999.

Studies in Texas target both debilitating chronic diseases — asthma, heart disease, stroke, cancer, diabetes and mental illnesses — and many less-prevalent medical conditions as well, he said.

Other highlights from the report:

• There are 125 biopharmaceutical companies operating in Texas, with a workforce of more than 9,500
• Total value of pharmaceutical shipments from Texas topped $4.7 billion in 2010
• There are more than 14,000 studies under way in Texas
• A total of 850 private scientific R&D companies operate in Texas with a workforce of 21,300

Click here to see the full report.

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