Bridging the communication gap JMP ® Clinical has doctors and statisticians speaking the same language Mark Williams is a co-founder of a research firm that, among other services, helps pharmaceutical companies gain approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for new drugs and devices, and he once worked for NASA. So you can take it to the bank when he says that bringing a drug to market is more complicated than rocket science. “That old cliché should actually be, ‘It ain’t drug development,’” says Williams, Vice President and CIO of Applied Clinical Intelligence, a Pennsylvania-based contract research organization serving the pharmaceuti- cal, biotechnology, medical device and health care industries. It’s a very complex, time-consuming process – and, in the

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