Author: Superadmin CRO Prodia

The IASMED 2025 Scientific Seminar “Moving Forward: Indonesian Clinical Trial” was held on Saturday, January 18, 2025, by Indonesia’s clinical trial association, The Indonesian Association for The Study of Medicines (IASMED).

This seminar is aimed to provide IASMED members to update information regarding clinical trial sites in order to improve the quality and quantity of clinical trials in Indonesia, especially multi-regional clinical trials (MRCT). There are two sessions on this scientific seminar. The first session consists of 4 speakers that are apt. Indri Rooslamiati, M.Sc as the Head of BB Binomika, Prof. dr. Taruna Ikrar, M.Biomed., Ph.D – Head of BPOM, Prof. Young Joo Par as  Vice President DIA Korea, Singapore, and Southeast Asia and Dra. Endang W. Hoyaranda as the head of IASMED. The second session is a panel discussion with the clinical trial stakeholders.  One of the main speaker is Prof. dr. Taruna Ikrar, M.Biomed., Ph.D – Head of BPOM. He said that BPOM will continue to supervise the clinical trial center’s infrastructure and personnel and keep fostering collaboration and integration among academia, business, and governance. There is also a networking session on this seminar where IASMED members can meet representatives from Clinical Research Unit of many hospitals and other clinical trials collaborators.

In this event, also was attended bt  clinical trial professionals such as Prof. Dr. Rianto Setiabudy, Prof. Arini Setiawati, and Prof. Young Joo Park, Vice President of the Drug Information Association (DIA) Korea, Singapore, and Southeast Asia, Indri Rooslamiati, M.Sc., Apt. Head of BB Binomika, CRUs, sponsors, global and local CROs.

In addition to the scientific agenda,during this eventalso celebrated the election of the IASMED chairs, including the new IASMED committee chairs and IASMED supervisory board chair.  May IASMED continued success and contribute more to enhancing the quality and quantity of clinical trials in Indonesia.

Prodia the CRO, believes that this marked as an excellent time for clinical trials in Indonesia. Prodia the CRO is a Contract Research Organization (CRO) based in Indonesia which provides GCP-based Clinical Trial supports through our integrated and wide range of services. Prodia the CRO has accumulated many experiences providing services to local as well as multinational companies with commitment to reach quality through qualified and dedicated resources. It provides customers in GCP trials with competitive costs, firm timeliness, and high compliance to ICH-GCP guidelines(CDF).

The Indonesian Association for The Study of Medicinals (IASMED) will hold the Virtual Course & Workshop on Applied Good Clinical Practice (GCP) on 20 – 21 September 2024. This training has been recognized by TransCelerate BioPharma.

The speakers are clinical trial experts & practitioners in Indonesia that will share useful information for conducting and evaluating clinical trials. Participant will be involved in interactive workshop and case-study application for Good Clinical Practice principle in clinical trial.

To participate on this event, please register at: https://bit.ly/GCPIASMED

[Bandung, Indonesia] On 20 July 2024, Prodia the CRO attended the 5^th annual meeting of the Association of Public University Hospital / Asosiasi Rumah Sakit Perguruan Tinggi Negeri (ARSPTN) in Bandung.

The existence of public universities hospital began when the Ministry of Health issued temporary permits for seven dental and oral hospitals (RSGM) belonging to public universities (perguruan tinggi negeri) simultaneously on 27 June 2002. These seven dental and oral hospitals were belonging to University of North Sumatra, University of Indonesia, Padjadjaran University, Gadjah Mada University, Hasanuddin University, Airlangga University, and Jember University.

Meanwhile, general hospitals (RSU) that belong to the public universities began with the establishment of hospitals that belong to Gadjah Mada University and Hasanuddin University in 2010, followed by hospital that belong to Airlangga University in 2011. Other public university hospitals were established afterwards in many places according to the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education (Kemenristekdikti) program at those time. In 2023, there were 39 public universities hospitals that consisted of 25 general hospitals and 14 Dental and Oral Hospitals.  The dynamics in managing public universities hospitals creating a sense of togetherness which was later manifested in the establishment of ARSPTN on 28 October 2017 in Surabaya.  To exchange ideas and experiences, ARSPTN routinely held an annual meeting. In 2024, the fifth ARSPTN annual meeting was held in Trans Luxury Hotel Bandung on 19-21 June 2024 and hosted by Padjajaran University Oral and Dental Hospitals. This meeting was attended by representatives from many public universities teaching hospital in Indonesia.  The theme of this 5^th annual meeting is “Strengthening Hospital Competitiveness in the New Era Post the Implementation of Undang-undang No. 17 tahun 2023 regarding Health”

On the fifth ARSPTN Annual Meeting, two MURI (Indonesia World Records Museum) records were broken that are MURI World Records on Playing Angklung to accompany HIV song by the largest number of health care workers and MURI Indonesia Records: interprofessional education program with the largest number of students.

Prodia the CRO was one of the Sponsors for the ARSPTN 5^th annual meeting. During this meeting, Dr. apt. Ida Paulina Sormin, M.Si, as a Site Management Organization Manager (SMO) of Prodia the CRO, gave a short presentation about the Development of Clinical Research Unit (CRU) for improving Clinical Trials in Indonesia. During the event, Prodia the CRO was also inviting the public university hospitals to collaborate with SMO for Clinical Research Unit Development.