The Innovation Award honours outstanding achievements in the deployment and successful implementation of innovative ideas, which could include new ideas for efficiency, productivity and processes.

The focus is on recognising outstanding achievements, delivered in the past three years, in the deployment and successful implementation of innovative ideas, together with rewarding individuals or organisations that embrace new and advanced ways to enhance the regulatory affairs profession.

2024 Finalists

  • CAPTIS Team (Celegence), UK, USA, the Netherlands, Romania and India
  • Celegence, USA and the Netherlands
  • Global Regulatory Intelligence (GRI) Freyr Solutions, India
  • Roche, UK, Switzerland and USA

    • This award category is open to individuals, teams and organisations

    Nominations may cover:

    1. The development of an approach, idea, or practice which enhances the regulatory profession by introducing a better way of conducting business.
    2. A publication or piece of research that provides interpretation in a complex regulatory situation.
    3. A technological advance in providing solutions to regulatory professionals.

    Read our Information Pack for more details about the Awards and FAQs.

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    Previous winners and finalists

    WINNER – NHS COVID-19 App Regulatory Team, UK 
    FINALIST - Association of Clinical Research Organizations (ACRO), US
    FINALIST - DEEP-EFPIA collaboration, Finland/Belgium
    FINALIST - Sanofi Regulatory Reliance CMC PAC Pilot Team, Canada

    WINNER – Global Digital Assurance Team, AstraZeneca, USA 
    FINALIST - Mark Bailey, Associate Director of Regulatory Operations, Syneos Health, Australia
    FINALIST - Leslie Kitchen, Senior Director, Innovation & Information Management, Merck & Co, on behalf of the RTQ Biographer Team, USA 

    WINNER – VCLS In Silico Team, Voisin Consulting Life Sciences, France
    FINALIST - First fully decentralized trial in Oncology, F.Hoffmann La Roche, Switzerland
    FINALIST - The eConsent Implementation Guide - a EUCROF & eClinical Forum member collaboration, co-chaired by Medidata and Signant Health 

    WINNER - Regulatory Process Automation Factory, F Hoffmann-La Roche, Switzerland
    FINALIST - Association of Clinical Research Organisations (ACRO) and the Decentralised Clinical Trials Working Party, UK
    FINALIST - COVID-19 antiviral expedited clinical trial start-up, Regulatory Affairs Team, including Lisa Huang, Pedro Inacio, Michael Park and Christina Cocciardo, PPD, Taiwan, Portugal, Korea and USA
    FINALIST - GRAvitate Hackathon and the Agile Methodology – Propelling Sanofi GRA Digital Transformation, including Mathieu Buonafine, Mickael Osseni, Michelle Halliez, Sima Desai, Elise Lefebvre, Sanofi GRA, France, USA and the Netherlands
    FINALIST - Labelling Process and Documentation Redesign (LPDR), Merck Sharp & Dohme, Kenilworth, New Jersey, USA 
    FINALIST - Team DocXter, led by Hrishikesh Dhongade and Sujatha Muttavarapu, Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation, India and USA

    WINNER - MedBoard, UK
    FINALIST - Business Workflow Enablement for Labeling (BWEL), Merck & Co, Inc, USA (BWEL Leads: Anita Cunningham, Exec Director Global Labeling Regulatory Affairs, John Janick, Director Innovation & Information Management, Jamie Brubaker Hall, Director Labeling Operations Innovation & Information Management)
    FINALIST - Joyce Tait, Co-Director, Innogen Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

    WINNER - Viagra Connect Team - Pfizer, UK
    FINALIST - eIFU Service - Qarad, Belgium
    FINALIST - Stuart McCully - Syneos Health, UK