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May 7, 2012 - New FDA Guidances from April 2012 – Here’s a list of the notable guidances released by FDA in April 2012, compiled by Cato Research Regulatory Scientist Cathy Anderson. [...]
May 2, 2012 - Cato Research Canada Celebrates Two Decades of Success in the Drug Development Industry – Over the past 5 years, the life sciences industry throughout Canada, and especially in QuĂ©bec, has been extensively challenged by a lack of available investment capital. Many pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies were forced to make headcount reductions, liquidate assets, and, ultimately, close operations. [...]
May 2, 2012 - Across the Board Disqualifications for Clinical Investigators – News has been hitting all over the regulatory blog sites, but in case you haven’t already seen this, the FDA issued a final regulation earlier this week (April 30th) that broadens the rules for clinical investigator disqualifications. Previously, if an investigator (clinical-investigator or sponsor-investigator) was determined to be non-compliant and ineligible to receive clinical trial material such as an investigational drug product, [...]
May 3, 2012 - Cato Research Canada Celebrates 20 Years of Successful Drug Development And Welcomes Many More Decades to Come ![]()
March 2012 - Cato Research participates in Business North Carolina's Biotechnology Round Table
February 8, 2012 - VistaGen Therapeutics Increases Its Drug Rescue Opportunities with Right-of-First-Offer Agreement with Cato BioVentures and Cato Research
December 2, 2011 - Cato Research presents on FDA regulation of mHealth devices at KOTRA M2M Tech Partnership