Clinical Development of Preventive Antimicrobials

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Preventive antimicrobials are a promising solution to the antibiotic resistance problem, driven in part by recent advances in cell engineering technology and the important safety advantages of biologic drugs over their small-molecule cousins. However, not all of the barriers to wider adoption are scientific or biological—this novel therapeutic modality has important clinical, regulatory, and patient recruitment implications.

ACRP Journal Article Focuses on Clinical Research in Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations

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Just in time to help recognize Pride Month, ACRP’s Clinical Researcher journal is pleased to share the first details from the lead peer-reviewed article on “Improving Cardiovascular Research for Transgender and Gender Diverse Populations” from a trio of WCG IRB expert contributors to the June issue. The article bolsters the issue’s “Let’s Get Personal: Scaling Clinical Research Down to You and Me” theme as it joins several other contributed pieces focused on patient centricity and personalized or precision medicine topics. 

Did You Know?: Certificates and Certification Are Not the Same

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As with many other professional associations, earning a one-time certificate of achievement in a focused topic from the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) can be a valuable, as-needed pursuit to bring one up to speed in a new job function in one’s daily work. As well, it can be part of preparing oneself to eventually take a detailed certification test (to become a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator (CCRC®) or Certified Clinical Research Associate (CCRA®), for example), and an option for accumulating the contact hours needed to maintain an existing certification with ACRP.