Novella Clinical Taps Medidata Solutions for Additional Insight into Clinical Research Costs

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Novella Clinical Taps Medidata Solutions for
Additional Insight into Clinical Research Costs
Long-standing Medidata Services Partner and Champion of
Clinical Trial Technology Becomes First CRO to Leverage Grants Manager
Investigator Site Benchmarking and Budget Forecasting Tool

NEW YORK, N.Y. – October 11, 2011 – Medidata Solutions (NASDAQ: MDSO), a leading global provider of SaaS-based clinical development solutions, today announced that Novella Clinical, a full service contract research organization (CRO), has expanded its use of Medidata products with the addition of Medidata Grants Manager®, the industry’s leading investigator site benchmarking tool. Grants Manager offers Novella a clear competitive advantage by enabling access to critical cost data to more accurately forecast trial costs as it serves sponsors outsourcing clinical trial activities. Grants Manager is designed to help users streamline site budget negotiations, ensure fair and reliable investigator payments, mitigate compliance risks and reduce time of site enrollment.

Novella first partnered with Medidata in 2005 when it adopted Medidata Rave®, a leading system for electronic data capture, management and analysis. Now, with the adoption of Grants Manager, Novella has access to Medidata’s unique PICAS® database—the only clinical cost database derived from negotiated agreements between sponsors, investigators and CROs—which will bring Novella deeper insight into industry-benchmarked investigator site costs. Grants Manager offers access to data from nearly a quarter million grants and contracts and more than 27,000 protocols in over 1,400 indications, including individual procedure prices, to help Novella more accurately determine relative site payments and forecast budgets.

“Over the years, Medidata has played a key role in our ongoing commitment to advancing electronic trials, and with the addition of Grants Manager, Medidata continues to help keep us at the forefront of clinical trial technology and operational insight,” said Richard Staub, president and chief executive officer of Novella Clinical. “Grants Manager will enable us to access the industry’s broadest database of investigator site cost information that will give us a distinct advantage in our estimation of trial costs.”

As a Medidata Services Partner, Novella is accredited in Medidata Rave to provide a full suite of Rave-related services, including end-user training, user and site administration, study build, reporting, outputs, integrations and migrations. The addition of Grants Manager into Novella’s clinical systems environment further enables it to provide excellent services that streamline and enhance its customers’ clinical trials.

“As trials become more costly and complex, and CROs and sponsors compete for clinical sites, tools like Grants Manager that have the ability to better manage and predict investigator site costs have never been more valuable,” said Graham Bunn, vice president of partnerships, Medidata Solutions. “By expanding beyond Medidata Rave with the selection of Grants Manager, Novella continues to recognize how Medidata’s wide range of products and services can solve critical business challenges throughout the clinical research process.”

About Novella Clinical
Novella Clinical, Inc. is a full service contract research organization headquartered in Research Triangle Park, N.C. For more than a decade, Novella has served as an active partner to the oncology, biopharma and medical device industries. As the first global eCRO, Novella integrates deep clinical expertise with industry-leading technologies and a proven approach to support, streamline and expertly resource the entire product development process.

About Medidata Solutions Worldwide
Medidata Solutions is a leading global provider of SaaS clinical development solutions that enhance the efficiency of customers’ clinical trials. Medidata’s advanced solutions lower the total cost of clinical development by optimizing clinical trials from concept to conclusion: from study and protocol design, trial planning and budgeting, site negotiation, clinical portal, trial management, randomization and trial supply management, clinical data capture and management, safety events capture, medical coding to business analytics. Our diverse life science customer base spans biopharmaceutical companies, medical device and diagnostic companies, academic and government institutions, CROs and other research organizations, and includes more than 20 of the top 25 global pharmaceutical companies as well as organizations of all sizes developing life-enhancing medical treatments and diagnostics.

Medidata Solutions Contact:
Susan McCarron
Lois Paul & Partners
781.782.5767
Susan_McCarron@lpp.com

Novella Clinical Contact:
Jessica Cunningham
Director of Marketing
919.972.2175
jcunningham@novellaclinical.com