What we do

Services for trials where imaging matters.

Three integrated service areas for clinical trials in which imaging or radiopharmaceuticals play a defining role — whatever the therapeutic area, whatever the phase.

Service 01

CRO Services

Full-service clinical trial management by a team that understands imaging and radiopharmaceuticals as deeply as clinical operations.

We have managed clinical trials across oncology, neurology, cardiology, and other therapeutic areas — from first-in-human exploratory studies through Phase 3 registration trials and Phase 4 post-marketing commitments. In each, imaging expertise was built in from the protocol stage, not retrofitted.

Our experience includes studies that have supported marketing authorisation applications to FDA and EMA. We know what these submissions require and design our processes accordingly from the outset.

Capabilities
  • Clinical trial protocol development and amendments
  • Study feasibility assessment and site selection
  • Site qualification and investigator evaluation
  • Regulatory submissions — IND, CTA, national authority packages
  • Ethics committee and IRB submissions
  • Investigator site file creation and maintenance
  • CRA selection, training, and monitoring coordination
  • On-site and central monitoring (SDV, data review)
  • eCRF design and clinical database programming
  • Data cleaning, SDTM, and ADaM dataset delivery
  • Statistical analysis plans and TLF programming
  • SAE handling, MedDRA coding, SUSAR reporting
  • Clinical study report preparation (ICH E3)
  • TMF management and formal project closeout
Discuss your trial
Clinical trial management
Core strengths

What makes our core lab different

Proprietary platform

ERICA is not an adapted general system — it was built specifically for clinical imaging trials and is validated to GAMP5 Category 5.

Strict blinding

Single-read, double-read, and adjudication designs with maintained blinding throughout — documented for regulatory submission.

Modality breadth

CT, MRI, PET, SPECT, hybrid imaging — radiopharmaceuticals and conventional agents.

Regulatory depth

ICH-GCP, ISO 14155, FDA 21 CFR Part 11, EMA guidelines — applied to every project, not as a checklist but as a working standard.

Service 02

Imaging Core Lab

End-to-end, independent management of imaging in your clinical trial — from first scan to final dataset.

pharmtrace's Imaging Core Lab provides comprehensive support for all imaging aspects of clinical trials and medical device investigations. Whether your study applies RECIST 1.1 or iRECIST for tumour response in oncology, PERCIST for PET-based assessment, quantitative MRI endpoints in neurology, SPECT imaging in cardiology, or quantitative imaging for a medical device investigation — we standardise, collect, quality-control, and independently review images with the rigour that regulatory submissions require.

Our proprietary ERICA platform, validated to GAMP5 Category 5, serves as the single environment for DICOM image storage, technical and medical QC, and blinded read sessions — with per-study configuration validation for every project.

Capabilities
  • Imaging Charter development — acquisition, QC standards, reading rules
  • Site qualification for imaging equipment and procedures
  • DICOM image transfer setup, collection, and management
  • Technical image quality control from DICOM header parameters
  • Medical image quality control for clinical compliance
  • Image query management and site communication
  • Reader identification, qualification, and training
  • Reader alignment meetings and test case management
  • Independent blinded reads — RECIST 1.1, iRECIST, PERCIST, and study-specific criteria
  • Therapeutic radiopharmaceutical and radioligand therapy response assessment
  • Medical device investigation imaging endpoints (ISO 14155)
  • Access to qualified readers — nuclear medicine physicians, radiologists, cardiologists, and other specialists
  • Adjudication assessments — structured resolution of discordant reads
  • Expert panel assessments for complex or disputed imaging findings
  • Read system configuration and validation (GAMP5, 21 CFR 11)
  • Reader variability assessment (intra- and inter-reader)
  • Statistical analysis and reporting of imaging endpoints
Discuss your imaging study
Service 03

Consulting

Strategic advice from people who have spent twenty years at the intersection of clinical development, imaging science, and regulatory affairs.

We support sponsors at any stage — from early imaging strategy and endpoint selection through regulatory meeting preparation and marketing authorisation support. Our advice is grounded in operational experience, not theory.

Through the CONELIS network, we can assemble interdisciplinary expert teams for complex advisory needs — covering non-clinical science, toxicology, CMC, biostatistics, regulatory affairs, and market access — on demand, without the overhead of a large organisation.

Capabilities
  • FDA and EMA meeting preparation — Type A, B, and C interactions
  • Regulatory strategy for imaging biomarkers and radiopharmaceuticals
  • Clinical development program design, Phase 1 through Phase 4
  • Imaging endpoint strategy and validation planning
  • Radioligand therapy program support
  • Due diligence for imaging- or radiopharmaceutical-based assets
  • Expert panel and scientific advisory board organisation
  • Gap analysis of existing imaging data packages
  • Sponsor team training on imaging in clinical trials
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Scientific consulting
Oncology Radioligand Therapy Neurology Cardiology Medical Devices First-in-Human Phase 1 – 4 Marketing Authorisation