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Contact Animal Health Consultants

Please use the following form to contact our veterinary CRO

NOTE, we may not respond to the following:
a. general inquiries which do not sufficiently describe a scope of work; or
b. inquiries unrelated to our consulting services.


Address

Woods Consulting, LLC
(d/b/a Animal Health Consultants)
Veterinary CRO and SMO Services

13410 N. 82nd Street
Scottsdale, AZ 95260
cwoods@animalhealthconsultants.com

Relevant Acronyms

CRO: contract research organization
SMO: site management organization
GCP: good clinical practices
GLP: good laboratory practices
PI: principal investigator
CoI: co-investigator
CRC: clinical research coordinator

Veterinary Contract Research Organization versus Site Management Organization

The terms veterinary site management organization (Veterinary SMO) and veterinary contract research organization (Veterinary CRO) are often used in the same context or interchangeably. However, their respective functions can differ just like the SMOs and CROs involved with human clinical studies.  Veterinary CRO’s typically work directly with the research subject (e.g., animal or patient), whereas veterinary SMOs manage the study sites, although many may perform both functions.

veterinary CRO

Veterinary Contract Research Organization

Veterinary CROs may provide a variety of services for the pharmaceutical industry. Veterinary CROs may have colony animals that are housed on-site and may be used for pK/pD, tolerance, and safety studies.  However, many veterinary CROs don’t have colony animals and serve in the capacity of multi-site clinical trial management for field studies.   The following lists some of the services that veterinary CROs may provide to clients:

  • research and development planning
  • clinical trial and project management
  • target animal clinical studies (GLP and GCP)
  • veterinary regulatory support, preparation of master file technical sections, and regulatory submissions
  • bioanalytical services, ADME, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics
  • stability and microbiology testing
  • technical writing

Veterinary Site Management Organization

Veterinary SMOs are typically those organizations that support and manage veterinary clinical studies.  Veterinary SMOs focus on data collection, query resolution and site specific protocol compliance.  A veterinary SMO is usually not involved in the pre-clinical or bioanalytical aspects of the R&D process or any regulatory submissions.  Rather, veterinary SMOs are primarily focused on implementing and completing site specific duties and responsibilities for pilot and pivotal studies.

Veterinary site management organizations may work with more than one veterinary clinical trial site, or oversee multi-site veterinary studies.  At the end of the study, the veterinary SMO is responsible for ensuring appropriate archiving of veterinary source and study related documents.