Assistance and Guidance
CPQA provides technical assistance and guidance to laboratories in a number of ways:
- CPQA engages with the DAIDS program officer, DAIDS HIV Research Network meetings, and other key conferences to streamline quality priorities.
- Technical guidance is offered to CPLs for laboratory relocations, regulatory reviews, assay validations, and quality assurance.
- HIV Clinical Pharmacology Sciences Working Group: This working group includes HIV clinical pharmacology experts who provide insight into current and future aspects of HIV clinical pharmacology research that CPQA will be planning to include in its programs.
- TB Clinical Pharmacology Working Group: This working group includes global experts in TB Drug Clinical Pharmacology and advises planning and implementation of the TB Drug Proficiency Testing Program.
- Support provided for CPL assistance and clinical research sites via cpqasupport@fstrf.org
Training
Clinical Pharmacology Study Conduct Tutorial
The Pharmacology Tutorial is designed to educate clinical research staff conducting clinical trials that have one or more pharmacology objectives.
It provides material on pharmacology concepts, outcomes, designs, sampling, data and measures, and seeks to improve the overall quality of pharmacology-related study procedures. Whether clinical, laboratory, or data entry, the conduct of each team member during the conduct of a protocol is vital to final outcomes. Understanding the basic principals in pharmacology studies improves the quality of clinical trials research.
The Tutorial consists of eight interactive modules on a variety of pharmacology-related topics, from terminology to specimen handling. The full tutorial takes approximately two to three hours to complete, and can be completed over more than one session. After the Tutorial is completed, you are issued a certificate of completion.
Access to this course requires a DAIDS Learning Portal account. If you don’t have an account, you can request one.
Bioanalytical Method Validation
This course provides the learner with information necessary to comprehend, design, perform, analyze, and evaluate bioanalytical method validation. The validation procedures and regulations are applied to chromatographic methods used to quantitate drugs, metabolites, or other small molecules of interest.
Access to this course requires a DAIDS Learning Portal account. If you don’t have an account, you can request one.
LDMS Training
LDMS is a laboratory application use for storing and submitting pharmacology data. Training for learning to use LDMS is provided by Frontier Science.
Information about LDMS training is on the LDMS website.
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