¶ ICON
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ICON plc is a multinational clinical research organization based in Ireland.
¶ History
On April 27, 2020, ICON signed an "Other Transaction Authority for Prototype Agreement" with the United States Department of Defense through the Natick Contracting Division "to perform research and development of medical countermeasures (MCMs) through completion of Phase I, II, and III human clinical trials and surveillance studies that demonstrate the efficacy and safety of products that treat, diagnose and/or protect against SARS-CoV2/COVID-19."[1]
ICON sponsored the 17th Workshop on Recent Issues in Bioanalysis on June 19-23, 2023.[2]
In October 2023, OpenVAET and DailyClout asserted that ICON appeared to use manipulated randomization numbers in order to reveal participant information to Pfizer during the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial.[3]
¶ Organization
ICON is a member of the Medical CBRN Defense Consortium[4] and the Corporate Council of the National Organization for Rare Disorders (NORD),[5] and is partnered with the Sabin Vaccine Institute.[6]
¶ Personnel
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Greg Licholai | Chief Medical and Innovation Officer[7] | COVID-19 Research Database, McKinsey & Company, Elpidera, Immunome, PRA Health Sciences |
¶ External links
Other Transaction Authority for Prototype Agreement between ICON Government and Public Health Solutions, Inc. and Natick Contracting Division. (2020, April 27). Knowledge Ecology International. https://web.archive.org/web/20231007173416/https://www.keionline.org/misc-docs/FOIA/DoD-Icon-OTA-Contract-W911QY2090007-27April2020.pdf ↩︎
Sponsors & Exhibition. WRIB. Retrieved May 27, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.05.27-180506/https://www.wrib.org/sponsorship-exhibition.php ↩︎
OpenVAET. (2023, October 7). Pfizer/BioNTech C4591001 Trial - DailyClout Report 86 on Process 2. OpenVAET’s Substack. http://archive.today/2023.10.07-110524/https://openvaet.substack.com/p/pfizerbiontech-c4591001-trial-dailyclout ↩︎
Current Members. MCDC. Retrieved January 3, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.01.03-195328/https://www.medcbrn.org/current-members/ ↩︎
Current NORD Corporate Council Members. NORD (National Organization for Rare Disorders). Retrieved October 12, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221012043656/https://rarediseases.org/get-involved/corporate-council/current-members/ ↩︎
Partners. Sabin Vaccine Institute. Retrieved September 19, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20220919064702/https://www.sabin.org/web/20220919064702/https://www.sabin.org/partners/ ↩︎
Leadership team. ICON Plc. Retrieved June 1, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240601194723/https://www.iconplc.com/about/leadership ↩︎