What is a CRO?

A Contract (or Clinical) Research Organization runs clinical trials on behalf of pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical-device sponsors. CROs handle protocol design, site selection, patient recruitment, data collection, safety reporting, and submissions to regulators.

Traditional CROs are people-heavy: thousands of monitors, data managers, medical writers, and project managers coordinate over email and dozens of disconnected systems. The work is highly regulated and largely manual.