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Business briefs: CTI honored with leadership award; GROW NKY gets $50K Duke Energy Foundation grant


Covington-based CTI Clinical Trial and Consulting Services (CTI), a multi-national, privately held, full-service contract research organization (CRO) was honored at the 2019 CRO Leadership Awards, as part of the Annual Global DIA Meeting in San Diego, CA.

Members of the CTI team attend the CRO Leadership Awards reception at the Prado at Balboa Park in San Diego, CA. Pictured from left to right are Zachary Sparks, Ryan Gifford, Ashley Butler, Caroline Martini, Caitrin Cardosi, and Nate Hughes (provided photo).

In its 7th year, Life Science Leader magazine partnered again with Industry Standard Research (ISR) to determining the recipients of the 2019 CRO Leadership Awards. CTI won an award in the categories of Capabilities, Compatibility, Expertise, Quality, and Reliability. Winners of the awards are determined using primary market research conducted by ISR. Sponsors provide ratings of CROs based on recent outsourced projects, and this experiential feedback is analyzed by sponsor company size to reveal leading CROs in different performance categories

This is the second year in a row that the CTI team has been recognized at the CRO Leadership Awards.

“The CTI team has always been dedicated to providing the highest quality service to our sponsors,” remarks Timothy Schroeder, CEO of CTI. “We pride ourselves on these qualities – being reliable, providing expertise, being easy to work with, etc., and it is an honor to consistently hear from an external, unbiased source that we are successful in demonstrating those characteristics to our partners.”

CTI announced the opening of a San Diego office earlier this month. The company, with an annual average staff retention rate of 95 percent, has been working for two decades in the drug development industry across North America, Europe, South America, Pac-Asia, and Africa, specializing in clinical research programs involving critically ill patient populations, and has more than 30 offices worldwide to serve more than 200 pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device clients.

GROW NKY receives $50,000 Duke Energy Foundation Powerful Communities Grant

GROW NKY has been awarded a $50,000 grant from the Duke Energy Foundation.

It is one of eight organizations in the southwest Ohio and Northern Kentucky region to collectively receive $203,000 in grants provided by the Duke Energy Foundation.

GROW NKY is the holistic workforce development/talent strategy focused on leveraging the community’s full complement of assets to grow, attract and retain a globally competitive workforce.

The grant will be used to support the ongoing development of a regional marketing strategy for the Greater Cincinnati region. This includes GROW NKY’s talent, attraction and retention efforts, as well as working in partnership with Source Cincinnati and other GROW NKY partners on the further development of the Cincinnati Experience website. A portion will also go towards the overall GROW NKY effort.

“The metropolitan areas around the country that are winning in the talent, attraction, and retention arena have a robust digital presence as part of their web-based marketing efforts,” said Leisa Mulcahy, Managing Director of GROW NKY and Vice President of Workforce at the NKY Chamber.This grant will go a long way in increasing the visibility of our community online, and highlighting all the things that make Greater Cincinnati a top place to live, work and play.”

The Duke Energy Foundation’s Powerful Communities program makes strategic investments to build powerful communities where our natural resources thrive, students can excel and a talented workforce drives economic prosperity for all.

The Foundation annually funds more than $30 million to communities throughout Duke Energy’s seven-state service area.


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