¶ North Alabama Research Center
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North Alabama Research Center is an American clinical research organization based in Athens, Alabama. It is part of the New Horizon Research Group.
The clinic has a longstanding relationship with several pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer.[1]
¶ COVID-19
NARC was a trial site for the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial along with its sister site, Medical Affiliated Research Center.[2] The sites were overseen by Tonya Pryor, research director for both facilities, with the NARC site led by investigator Ernest Hendrix.[1:1][3] The sites sought "around 300 volunteers" to participate.[4]
¶ Organization
| Name | Position | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Tonya Pryor | Director of Research | - |
¶ External links
Henderson, A. (2020, July 23). Calling all heroes: Cullman County native conducting trials of potential COVID-19 vaccine. The Cullman Times. https://web.archive.org/web/20201030203130/https://www.cullmantimes.com/news/calling-all-heroes-cullman-county-native-conducting-trials-of-potential-covid-19-vaccine/article_cfa3d49c-cc7b-11ea-8b11-6ffbb63c12b8.html ↩︎ ↩︎
BioNTech SE. (2023, February 28). Study to Describe the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of RNA Vaccine Candidates Against COVID-19 in Healthy Individuals. ClinicalTrials.gov. https://web.archive.org/web/20230804070226/https://classic.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728 ↩︎
Supplementary Appendix (p. 2). (2021). medRxiv. https://web.archive.org/web/20230826041437/https://www.medrxiv.org/content/medrxiv/early/2021/07/28/2021.07.28.21261159/DC1/embed/media-1.pdf ↩︎
Mahan, A. (2020, August 19). North Alabama Research Center needs volunteers for COVID-19 vaccine. WAFF 48. http://archive.today/2023.04.26-045238/https://www.waff.com/2020/08/18/north-alabama-research-center-needs-volunteers-covid-vaccine/ ↩︎