PharmaNet hires vp for clinical operations

Catherine Derasp will oversee Phase I clinics

Catherine Derasp has joined PharmaNet Development Group, a US provider of clinical development services to the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry, as vice president, clinical operations of the company's Phase I clinics.

Derasp will oversee the management of the company's 350-bed Phase I clinical operations that are located in Montreal and Quebec City, Canada. In addition to first-in-man and proof-of-concept phase I clinical services, she will be responsible for a variety of studies in special populations, cardiac safety testing, and drug-drug interaction studies.

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