Did you know that Phase 2 and 3 study startup times in Australia can be expedited with the right site relationships? In order to accelerate the first patient in, PSI engages private sites and medical centers to ensure an average startup timeline of only five months. Learn more about study startup in Australia with Barrie Koh, Country Manager.

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Hi, I’m Barrie. Did you know that Australia is quick to start up?

Everyone in the industry knows that it is easy to get an approval for an early-phase study in Australia. It is supported by streamlined regulatory processes, and you just need fewer documents for submissions. What most don’t realize is that startup in Phase 2 and Phase 3 isn’t that different.

The challenge is that most clients have a habit of going back to the same key opinion leaders or the huge institutions. they have lots of studies and they are heavily bureaucratic. To get to the first patient in quickly, PSI has been engaging the private sites, which are much more agile, only working with four to five huge private medical centers and a dozen more smaller sites.

With this particular approach, five months is feasible and it is consistent across all phases, all therapeutic areas and drugs classes. To cite you an example, in a recent microbiome study, we actually managed to achieve the first patient in in five and a half months at a private site down in Sunshine Coast. And this came in two weeks ahead of our planned first patient in.

Another example is a gene therapy study that we’re currently running. We were the first CRO to apply for a gene therapy license (in Australia). So we actually worked with each other to try to move this forward and this was done under four months itself and ever since then, we’ve completed four more gene therapy studies.