Ophthalmology CRO Services – What You Need To Know

Advance your ophthalmic therapies with a single, full-service Ophthalmology CRO and offer personalized ophthalmic drug development services that span the entire continuum from discovery and preclinical to clinical and post-market follow-up.

Whether you need support with anterior or posterior segments, rare eye diseases, gene therapy or eye devices and diagnostics, we know how to optimize your eye development.

A strategic vision for your eye program

Rely on the deep scientific and regulatory experience of our ophthalmology staff from delivering more than 100 patient-centered global ophthalmology clinical trials for emerging biotech companies over the past five years.

Work with renowned vision scientists through our 30+ year relationship with Ophthalmic Services on Demand (OSOD) to handle your preclinical ophthalmic needs and provide specialized expertise in the ocular surface and anterior and posterior segments.

Enable intelligent patient recruitment with advanced data and increase your efficiency with our established relationships with more than 2,000 locations worldwide.

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Extend the expertise of your ophthalmology team with a full-service collaboration

Experience counts when it comes to putting patient needs at the forefront of your decisions and ensuring the success of your ophthalmic drug development program. Our expertise and insights at Labcorp have helped advance more than 100 clinical ophthalmology trials over the past five years as we have provided flexible solutions for emerging and mid-sized biotech companies.

Get the cross-functional support and customized strategies you need to accelerate development timelines, anticipate and prevent problems, and bring your ophthalmology therapy to market. Together, our strong partnership can help your team improve patients’ lives faster.

Get access to tailored preclinical solutions

You may need toxicology (GLP and non-GLP), tissue distribution/pharmacokinetics (PK), and pharmacology to support your ophthalmology preclinical research. We understand the unique differences between the ocular surface, anterior segments, and posterior segments and can offer our expertise in several areas of eye disease such as glaucoma, dry eye, uveitis, allergies, and retinal disease.

Your preclinical journey can also benefit from our experience in all drug/therapy classes and our partnership with OSOD in providing ocular routes of administration for a range of models.

Working with Labcorp on your ophthalmology research also gives your team access to our full-service laboratories to address any chemistry or bioanalytical service needs. Discover the difference of our integrated, comprehensive capabilities.

Unique solutions for clinical trials and testing

Our delivery focuses on unique clinical trial and testing solutions that are patient-centered and flexibly tailored to the needs of your program.

Accelerate patient recruitment and site identification

Access our de-identified laboratory results and patient data to help you identify patient clusters, evaluate inclusion/exclusion criteria, pressure testing protocols and help locate patients near proven and experienced testing sites that are part of our watched and trusted network.

Get scientific and regulatory support

Empower your team with our regulatory and commercial guidance. Rely on our extensive experience helping small biotech and large pharmaceutical companies to help you achieve your strategic goals.
Apply flexible, integrated delivery models – Whether you need to use decentralized approaches to clinical trials to mitigate delivery risks or leverage our full-service or functional service provider (FSP) models, we can work together to optimize your delivery.

We design our delivery options to match your preferences and the needs of your project. Take advantage of these end-to-end solutions while we track your project milestones and data with Vial.

Pre-Clinical: Providing Expertise with Eye Services on Demand (OSOD)

Develop your eye program with a consortium of more than 40 internationally recognized vision scientists. Since 1999, we have partnered with OSOD to help both emerging biotechs and large pharmaceutical companies collaborate with vision science experts such as board-certified veterinary ophthalmologists, electrophysiologists (for ERG), veterinary and medical pathologists, clinicians, professional eye photographers. as basic scientists in a wide range of areas of eye science.

Your team will receive unsurpassed vision science guidance—including study design, data acquisition/interpretation, clinical translation, and regulatory strategy—and benefit from state-of-the-art equipment for comprehensive descriptive and functional evaluation of your endpoints.

Drive your complex clinical trial with a robust patient recruitment, engagement and retention strategy
With a strategy tailored to your ophthalmic indication, our holistic approach begins with established site relationships to find the strongest, high performing sites for your study and leverage existing agreements to accelerate launch.

Ophthalmology Trial Experience

We can also analyze our own Labcorp de-identified data and filter it by ICD10 diagnosis codes to geo-locate patient populations closest to your locations. Working with our team of dedicated subject matter experts, you’ll get a comprehensive data-driven website and patient engagement strategy that incorporates our best practices from our previous and current ophthalmology trial experience.

Once your trial is underway, you can rely on our Ophthalmic Clinical Trials Management team to provide close communication and collaboration. We work to identify certified vendors who perform visual acuity assessments and central eye imaging readings, and use our highly flexible, in-house mClinical Electronic Patient Reported Outcomes (ePRO) platform so you can receive high-quality data and stay connected to the progress of your program.

More than meets the eye: intelligent recruitment, inspiring science and integrated delivery
Take your study forward with a Oncology CRO that provides clinical, scientific, regulatory and operational perspectives paired with experienced ophthalmology teams to keep the patient at the forefront of your design decisions. From site selection to patient recruitment strategies and generating quality data, we are here to help reduce patient and facility burden, mitigate risk, and optimize your program processes.

Discover the difference by working with a dedicated partner that offers comprehensive drug development services. Together we can find the best way forward for your eye product.