Technical Data
PHAROS GmbH is proud to be paving new paths. However, sometimes it is difficult to describe in traditional terms, who we are and how we operate.
PHAROS GmbH being a Virtual CRO in many aspects of course only has core competencies and core staff gathered in our permanent team and in our Clinical Pharmacology Unit. Our abilities by far exceed what you might be concluding from the following statistics. As a matter of fact, we represent the working power of well over 250 scientists and technicians across many medical and scientific disciplines.
For a detailed description on how we operate and why this is for both you and us a much better way of doing things, follow this link to our 'company page'.
Years of Operation
PHAROS GmbH has been founded in 1994 and operates its own Clinical Pharmacology Unit.
Staff
Our full-time core-staff is composed of
• 4 Physicians
• 5 Study Nurses, all with additional training (e.g. anaesthesia or intensive care)
• 1 Biologist/Chemist (Head of Quality Management)
• 1 Systems- and Database-Programmer
• 5 Data Managers (CRA with 3 years of college training in GCP data management and handling)
• 1 Kitchen Staff
• 1 over-all Project-Coordinator
• 1 Secretary
• 1 Business Economist (Head Finances and Contracts)
• 1 Purchasing Executive
• 1 Controller
• 1 Book-Keeping Clerk.
In addition we call upon 30 Bank Nurses, 1 Pharmacist, 2 Pharmaceutical Technical Assistants, 10 Datatypists and Data Mangement Assistants and 3 Kitchen Staff who all have undergone intensive in-house training at PHAROS GmbH prior to being assigned to any study activity.
All of our staff members, full-time or bank, must participate in several training courses and refresher courses every year. This way we assure that everyone working here is always up to the latest standards.
CVs of our staff and all training records are ready for your inspection here at PHAROS GmbH.
Location & Access
PHAROS GmbH is located next to the 'Ulm Science City' and was designed and custom built to our standards and specifications and with flexibility in mind.
Ulm is located half-way between the airports of Stuttgart and Munich.
As a standard service PHAROS provides a complimentary Limousine Service: We meet all visitors at the airport (Stuttgart or Munich), take them to PHAROS and back to the airport. We also provide free transportation service (pre-paid taxi) within Ulm for our visitors.
Premises
We currently occupy a floor space of 1,450 m2, equivalent to 15.600 sq. feet (with options to expand), divided into separate access controlled areas for
• offices
• pharmacy
• archives
• in-patient clinical activity area
• out-patient clinical activity area
• intensive monitoring area
• dormitory area
• recreational areas.
We have
• 55 overnight beds for volunteers
• 6 beds in our intensive monitoring ward.
Equipment
The PHAROS GmbH Clinical Pharmacology Unit has all the equipment that you would expect us to have.
• 2 Emergency Treatment Sets (cardiovascular, respiratory, anaphylaxis)
• 1 Bioscope A mobile emergency ECG
• 1 mobile Defibrillator D802
• 3 Siemens Sicard 460 12-lead ECG recorders with automatic evaluation
• 2 Mortara Portrait 12-lead ECG recorder with automatic evaluation
• 1 Mortara Telemetry 12-lead ECG system for remote 12-lead ECG recording
• 13 Mortara X 12 Transmitters for 12-lead Telemetry ECG
• 4 Mortara H12 Holter 12-lead ECG for 24 hours continuous 12-lead ECG recording
• 1 Boso manual mercury sphygmomanometer blood pressure measuring devices
• 22 Boso semiautomatic oscillometric blood pressure measuring devices with printer
• 1 Draeger Alcotest 7410 breath alcohol analyser
• 7 Braun Infusomat F infusion pumps (bottle type)
• 6 Braun Perfusor Secura infusion pumps (syringe type)
• 7 Sirecust 732 monitors (2-lead ECG with automatic interpretation, respiratory rate, body temperature, pulse-oxymetry, blood pressure, invasive blood pressure) with memory for values outside alarm ranges or aberrant ECG curves
• 1 Siredoc 220 central printing device for Sirecust 732 Monitors
• 1 Spirovit SP-1 spiromtery device for lung function testing
• 3 Megafuge 1.0 R, cooled centrifuges
• various pipettes
• -20 °C Freezers
• -70 °C Freezers
• 1 Laminar Flow Cabinet
• radio-controlled clocks in all rooms for time synchronicity
• Fujinon Gastroscopy unit
• Electro-Retinograph PRIMUS (Tomey)
• Cognitive Assessments (in cooperation with CDR)
• Impedance Cardiography
• Marquette 12-leaad electrocardiographys
• Spacelabs or Hellige Tonoport 24hr Blood Pressure Measurement
Data Systems
Hardware:
• 6 Pentium based Network-Servers: Network System and Applications, Database, Communication
• Network Operating Systems: Novell 4.11, Windows NT 4 Server, Windows 2000 Server, Linux Server
• all server hard-disks mirrored
• daily DAT-tape backup of 100% of systems, data and applications
• DSL, ISDN and analogue communication links
• every desk with Pentium-based PC, all connected to central network
Software:
• Novell IntraNetware with GroupWise internal e-mail and communication
• Desktop-PC Operating System: Windows NT 4.0 and Windows XP
• Integrated Business Software: Corel Perfect Office Professional Version 10 and Microsoft Office XP
• Statistical Software: SAS, TopFit and others
• Database: Atoth - SQL Clinical Trial Data Management Software (Clintrial® and Oracle Clinical® compatible)
• Database Server: Borland Interbase Server - SQL
• Internet Access: Netscape Communicator or Internet Explorer via DSL