Cognitive Research Corporation

Overview

Cognitive Research Corporation (CRC) is a contract research organization (CRO) that focuses exclusively on central nervous system (CNS) clinical research. According to its website, CRC supports Phase I-III CNS trials and was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida.

CRO services

The website lists the following service areas:

• Clinical trial management
• Trial design
• Data management
• Quality assurance
• Biostatistics and statistical programming
• Medical writing
• Rater services

Therapeutic focus

CRC's therapeutic expertise pages cover neurology, psychiatry, analgesia, and psychedelics.

Driving simulation

CRC offers driving simulation, which the website describes as technology used to assess medication impact on driving safety.

Approach

CRC describes its model as a partnership rather than a vendor relationship, with consistent teams that stay with programs from start to finish. The company states that it has an industry-leading staff retention rate and that it has built its operations around 20 years of CNS-specific expertise.