North Carolina is considered the top state in America for its growing concentration of companies providing contract research services for new-drug development, including clinical trials.
And if a core group of health-care specialists is successful as it carries its message off the East Carolina University campus eastward out of Greenville, Eastern North Carolina may become the new hot spot to reap some of the rewards of the state’s clinical-research growth.
North Carolina harbors one of the nation’s highest concentrations of contract research organizations (CROs). By 2006, the Old North State had a 22 percent greater concentration of people working in CROs and medical testing companies than the rest of the U.S. The sector grew 56.9 percent statewide from 2001 to 2006 alone. As of Dec.1, 2008, North Carolina boasted 104 such companies, employing 19,708 people.
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