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Introducing Tower Mains and a new website
Who are we? Tower Mains Ltd was first established in 2001 as an independent Research Quality Assurance consultancy that became widely known as TMQA. Our core business was conducting audits [...]
Regulatory News Update June 2020
COVID-19 Updates Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Dexamethasone - World first coronavirus treatment approved for NHS use by government On 16th June 2020, the MHRA issued a press [...]
Pharma News Update June 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Development Oxford University’s COVID-19 Vaccine Boosts Immune Response in Pigs On 23rd June 2020, the Pirbright Institute in collaboration with the University of Oxford announced that two doses [...]
Tower Mains COVID-19 Support Services
Introduction and Areas of Services In the current COVID-19 situation, the EMA has provided guidance that on-site audits should, in general, be avoided or postponed. However, the ICH Guideline on [...]
Regulatory News – COVID-19 Special Edition April/May 2020
Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) MHRA issues a scientific opinion for the first medicine to treat COVID-19 in the UK On the 26th May 2020, the MHRA gave [...]
Pharma News – May 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Development Moderna Announces Positive Interim Data of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine On 18th May 2020, Moderna Inc., a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines, [...]
Pharma News – April 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Development Sanofi and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Collaborate in Adjuvanted Vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19) On 14th April 2020, Sanofi and GSK announced that they have signed a letter of intent for a collaboration focused on development [...]
Guidance on Remote Training
Tower Mains staff have experience of providing remote training to people and groups around the world. The benefits of groups working with experts “face to face” are well understood, especially [...]
Guidance on Conducting Remote Investigator Site Audits (ISAs)
BEFORE THE AUDIT Decide on the audit scope Check whether there are resources at the site or Clinical Research Organisation (CRO) (if the on-site visit of the CRO representative is allowed) to ensure assistance during [...]
Pharma News – March 2020
COVID-19 Vaccine Development National Institutes of Health (NIH) Initiates Clinical Trial of Investigational Vaccine for COVID-19 On 16th March 2020, the NIH announced that the first United States (US) clinical [...]
