A History of Clinical Research

Research and the clinical trial is a fundamental tool of modern medicine. In fact, the clinical trial is the medical invention that has contributed to nearly all of the life saving medicines we know today. Hear Dr. Dennis Gillings, Chairman and CEO of Quintiles, review a history of clinical research from 1550 BC to the 1900’s. With the establishment of guidelines for ethical clinical trial conduct and regulations for drug development, more than 1019 novel drug therapies have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration thats virtually all the medicines used today -- all brought to you by the clinical trial.