Covance "Team IND" approach to cutting preclinical time period modeled on U.K. project.
Executive Summary
COVANCE "TEAM IND" PRECLINICAL PROJECT IS MODELED ON U.K. EXPERIENCE that has shortened the average period of testing prior to Phase I to about half a year. Covance, nee Corning Pharmaceutical Services , maintains that it has developed a fast-track program bridging the specialties of preclinical testing and the first phases of human testing and used it on more than 10 drug compounds in the U.K. Covance is calling the integrated preclinical approach a Strategic Product Development program.