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News & Events - Auckland Clinical Studies Website Register Interest 0800 STUDIES Contact Us Facebook Home Services Clinical Services Pharmacist Services Biomarker Services Regulatory Services Quality Services Facilities Participant Portal Participant FAQ Current Trials Completed Trials Register Now Glossary About Us Why ACS? Our People News & Events Our Published Research Select Page News & Events Jan Gaskin, Director, Site Management Delivery and Country Head New Zealand presenting the Certificate ofVictoryto ACS Operations Manager Mary Ellis-Pegler ACS stand out among IQVIA preferred clinical trial sites May 24, 2018 – Auckland Clinical Studies has been recognized for superior performance and quality in clinical research in 2017.  After stuff selected by IQVIA In November 2016 as their first preferred partner clinical trial site globally, ACS is tremendously pleased how well the collaboration is progressing. Mary Ellis-Pegler, ACS Operations Manager, commented “In 2017, the team worked extremely nonflexible on a number of very big projects with IQVIA. It is really nice to see the effort and quality stuff recognized by IQVIA,  a world leading CROs and recently selected as one of the 2018 FORTUNE “World’s Most Admired Companies. We expressly enjoy the collaborative spirit of the partnership and squint forward to many increasingly successful projects in the future” Top row, L-R: Ben Oldfield (ACS Principal Pharmacist), Amalini Jesuthasan (ACS Laboratory Manager), Janet Patterson (ACS Quality Manager) Second row, L-R: Tara Shadbolt (ACS Charge Nurse), Katie Lim (ACS Quality/Regulatory Associate), Mary Ellis-Pegler (ACS Operations Manager) Third row, L-R: Prof Ed Gane, Assoc. Prof Wai-Kay Seto, Wen-Jing Zhou (Manager, HKU Clinical Trials Centre), Dr Li Yang (Oncologist, HKU-Shenzhen Hospital), Dr Christian Schwabe (ACS Managing Director) University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital delegation visiting ACS March 7, 2018 – A delegation from the Clinical Trials Centre at The University of Hong Kong-Shenzhen Hospital, recently spent 3 days at Auckland Clinical Studies. Shenzhen Hospital is a large, modern public hospital in Futian District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China and is one of the two teaching hospitals of the University of Hong Kong. The clinical trials centre is set to wilt a major player in early phase clinical research in China and came to Auckland to proceeds remoter insight into weightier practice phase 1 research recognizing ACS’ world-leading status in this setting.  “ACS has an enviable global reputation not only based on their contribution to finding very constructive new treatments for chronic hepatitis C, but moreover as a result of innovative studies in many other therapeutic indications including oncology rare diseases” – Associate Prof Wai-Kay Seto, Clinical Associate Professor at the Department of Medicine,The University of Hong Kong. “This meeting provides a fantastic opportunity to build a strong collaboration between our two units, which should be mutually beneficial. In future, we could provide a combined gravity for securing ongoing early phase studies”. – Prof Gane, Professor of Medicine at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, Chief Hepatologist, Transplant Physician and Deputy Director of the New Zealand Liver Transplant Unit at AucklandMunicipalityHospital and Clinical Director of Auckland Clinical Studies Symposium to gloat 10yrs of ACS ACS was established to provide a location for AucklandMunicipalityHospital clinical investigators for Phase I and Phase II studies. Over the last 10 years, ACS has grown to 35 beds and 80 staff (including 6 research physicians, 4 Pharmacists, 9 study coordinators, 40 nurses, 18 laboratory staff, transcriptionists and admin staff). Close to 200 studies have now been performed wideness most ACH specialties including dermatology, gastroenterology, haematology, hepatology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurlogy, paediatrics, oncology and respiratory medicine. The symposium on 12th October 2017 at the Marion Davis Libraray at ACH was to gloat the last 10yrs with Notable invited speakers including principal investigators from AucklandMunicipalityHospital and leaders from pharmaceutical industry. ACS turns 10! 28 April 2017 – Auckland Clinical Studies (ACS) proudly prestigious 10 years as an early phase clinical pharmacology unit in Auckland, New Zealand. Providing outstanding quality service in clinical research, ACS has successfully completed >150 studies to date. Highlights of achievements over the last 10 years for ACS and its staff included: Been an integral part of an international search for a cure for hepatitis C and treated 1200 patients in NZ most of whom are cured of their disease now Related to above, ACS Director Professor Ed Gane was awarded MNZM in 2011 New Year’s Honours for services to Medicine, the Health Research Council 2014 LileyRibbonfor his work in hepatitis C and the 2017 NZ Innovator of the YearRibbonSelected as Global Prime Site for Quintiles, the World’s largest Clinical Research Organisation Congratulations ACS, and to many increasingly successes to come! Congratulations to Professor Ed Gane, the 2017 New Zealand Innovator of the year Professor Ed Gane’s outstanding contributions to the minutiae of a simple and potent cure for chronic Hepatitis C were recently recognized when he was named the 2017 New Zealand Innovator of the year. The New Zealander of the Year Awards gloat people who use their passion for New Zealand to make our country a largest place. These awards are a wonderful opportunity to honor no-go Kiwis whose selflessness, creativity and vision make us proud to undeniability New Zealand home. Auckland Clinical Studies is very proud of Ed’s fantastic victory and grateful to have been worldly-wise to help Ed’s search for a largest and increasingly constructive Hepatitis C treatment. We want to join Ed in thanking the 1000+ patients who participated in studies here, and whose contribution helped find a cure for increasingly than a million patients virtually the world so far. Eradication of the Hepatitis C virus infection in New Zealand and virtually the world is now really a possibility. This will require identifying the approximately 20 000 New Zealanders that harbour the virus without knowing it. Knowing Ed, we are confident he will find a way to tackle this rencontre too. For remoter information, visit http://nzawards.org.nz/awards/new-zealand-innovator-year/2017/  FDA Inspection In May 2017 an FDA inspection occurred at ACS. For remoter information, please contact Mary Ellis-Pegler our Operations Manager mary.ellis-pegler@clinicalstudies.co.nz Auckland Clinical Studies and QuintilesIMS Sign Early ClinicalMinutiaePrime Site AllianceTry-onACS joins Christchurch Clinical Studies Trust as the first two ECD QuintilesIMS Prime Sites Auckland, New Zealand – November 10, 2016 – Auckland Clinical Studies (ACS) this week became one of the first two early clinical minutiae (ECD) centers to join the QuintilesIMS Prime Site program, a global network of highly qualified sites collaborating with QuintilesIMS to modernize the speed, efficiency and quality of clinical research wideness all phases of development. Through the try-on signed this week, ACS and QuintilesIMS will strategically interreact to raise the efficiency and volume of ECD research conducted in New Zealand on behalf of biopharmaceutical and medical device companies.  ACS has worked with QuintilesIMS for 10 years; the Prime Site syndication will take that collaboration to the next level. “The wing of Auckland Clinical Studies as one of our first ECD Prime Sites is testament to the quality of medical research in New Zealand,” said Vice President Ashish Jain, Global Early Clinical Development, QuintilesIMS.  “This syndication remoter strengthens our worthiness to meet our customers’ early clinical minutiae needs in Asia Pacific wideness a wide range of therapeutic areas.” The ultimate goal for both QuintilesIMS and ACS is to help companies develop largest treatments faster and requite increasingly patients the option of participating in clinical research.   ACS joins Christchurch Clinical Studies Trust (CCST) as the Prime Site program’s first two ECD centers. CCST moreover signed an syndication try-on with QuintilesIMS older this week. ACS has wangle to the large patient/volunteer population in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city, with 2 million people. It is located directly opposite Auckland’s leading tertiary referral hospital, AucklandMunicipalityHospital (ACH), and has wangle to a full range of medical specialties and LabPLUS, ACH’s premier medical laboratory.  ACS moreover has wangle to many researchers from the Auckland School of Medicine and Auckland’s major tertiary hospitals who are keen to take part Phase I and II studies. Supported by a robust and world leading upstanding and regulatory framework in New Zealand, ACS is a world leader in early clinical development, particularly for studies requiring novel or ramified designs. QuintilesIMS is a leading integrated information and technology-enabled healthcare service provider worldwide, defended to helping its clients modernize their clinical, scientific and commercial results. QuintilesIMS’s approximately 50,000 employees self-mastery operations in increasingly than 100 countries. Companies seeking to modernize real-world patient outcomes through treatment innovations, superintendency provision and wangle can leverage QuintilesIMS’s wholesale range of healthcare information, technology and service solutions to momentum new insights and approaches. These insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders in the minutiae and clearance of new therapies, and to identify unmet treatment needs and understand the safety, effectiveness and value of pharmaceutical products in improving overall health outcomes. Professor Ed Gane receiving the 2014 Health Research Council of New Zealand’s distinguished Liley Medal We would like to congratulate our colleague Professor Ed Gane for receiving the 2014 Health Research Council of New Zealand’s distinguished Liley Medal for demonstrating a safer, increasingly constructive treatment for people with hepatitis C virus. The Liley Medal recognises Professor Gane’s outstanding contribution to the health and medical sciences in the field of clinical hepatology. Professor Gane was the lead tragedian on two very highly cited papers in the prestigious medical journal, New EnglandPeriodicalof Medicine, which showed that people could be cured of the hepatitis C virus in just 12 weeks using an antiviral treatment tabbed sofosbuvir. A significant proportion of the research leading to this prestigious ribbon was conducted at Auckland Clinical Studies. We would moreover like to use this opportunity to thank the increasingly than 500 patients who have participated in Hepatitis C studies at ACS over the last few years and have made this outstanding progress in the treatment of this devastating disease possible. Medsafe site certified Medsafe administers an clearance scheme for clinical trials under Section 30 of the Medicines Act 1981 and ACS was one of the first sites in New Zealand to be tried and certified as a clinical trials site which has study participants in residence while clinical trial medicines are administered. About Us Auckland Clinical Studies (ACS) provides state-of-the-art world matriculation research facilities and the expertise to perform Phase I and II studies for the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. 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