ERGOMED opens new facility in Russia

Frankfurt, Germany-based ERGOMED Group, a specialized international clinical development company, has opened a new facility in Russia. At the same time, the firm is appointing Sergei Drapkin - who was a co-found of Quintiles Transnational's Moscow branch - as the managing director for the Russian office.

The new office, which strengthens ERGOMED's position in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, will support ongoing operations in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belorussia. These countries represent emerging regions with very significant potential for high patient recruitment. Clinical research in the German firm's areas of specialization in these regions is also of a high quality, given the generally high standard of medical training and the concentration of medical expertise in a few centers, it claims.