Project Management Office

Cato Research establishes and maintains a framework for successful project management by providing qualified project managers together with the necessary project management tools, training, resources, and performance metrics. The Cato Research team integrates with your team to efficiently move your development program toward a successful outcome.

Cato Research draws members from various operational groups to staff a project team with specific emphasis on matching project needs with expertise. Cato Research is committed to providing personnel with the appropriate backgrounds and experience to successfully manage and lead any project within the established budget and timeline.


Project Team

Based on specific project's requirements, Cato Research assigns the core team members: project manager, project coordinator and program director. Others will be assigned for additional expertise (e.g. statistical analysis, data management, pharmacovigilance, safety management, etc.) as needed.

Working together, the core team will oversee, manage and coordinate adherence to project budget, timelines and milestones. The extensive cross-training offered at Cato Research in the fields such as regulatory affairs, clinical trials, and pharmaceutical development, gives Cato Research project teams the ability to maximize creative strategies and solutions.

Project Manager:

  • Demonstrates comprehensive understanding of drug development and clinical trial environment
  • Provides supervision to each functional aspect of the project

Project Coordinator:

  • Allows the project manager and project experts to focus on the task at hand by maintaining the important day-to-day activities.
  • Serves as the communication enzyme between Cato Research team members and the sponsor

Program Director:

  • Offers additional oversight for the project and facilitates upper management involvement as necessary

Additional expert team members specific to your project


The Project Lifecycle

Cato Research believes that each project deserves the necessary attention and ingenuity at all phases of the life cycle; initiation, planning, execution, control, and closing.

Project management integration is a vital aspect of project work at Cato Research and involves making critical choices and decisions about projects with careful consideration of project resources, risk, scope, and expectations.

Experienced project managers know there is no single way to manage a project. Project managers at Cato Research apply various project management knowledge, skills, and processes in different orders and degrees of rigor to achieve the desired project performance at each stage of the life cycle.

The project managers at Cato Research are dedicated to providing the resources and solutions needed at each step to ensure the overall success of a project.

Project Initiation and Planning:

  • Effective project management begins at project initiation.
  • Development of a detailed project plan, including a communication plan and risk management plan
  • Kick-off meeting with the sponsor to discuss and come to define the project scope, priorities and anticipated timelines

Project Execution and Control:

  • Carefully monitor and track the project's actual progress against the plan
  • Communicate the progress status to the sponsor
  • Proactively identify risks that may delay project activities and discuss reasonable resolutions with the sponsor

Project Closing:

  • Core team will be available throughout the duration of activities to ensure that all outstanding activities are resolved.