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Constella Health Sciences Re-wins $38 Million CDMRP Peer Review Services Contract
WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 8, 2004—Constella Health Sciences, a business unit of Constella Group, has re-won its peer review services contract with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command's (USAMRMC) Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP). The contract is valued at $38 million and has a two-year base period plus three option years.
"Our CDMRP contract is strategically important to our future of becoming a preeminent organization, to continuing to establish Constella as a premier provider of scientific peer review services and to making a global impact on human health," said Chris LeGrand, president of Constella Health Sciences.
As part of its work on the contract, the business will continue to oversee strategic planning of scientific peer review for a number of health-related research topics, including breast cancer, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer and neurofibromatosis. The business' work also involves receiving and tracking peer review applications throughout the peer review process, recruiting nationally recognized scientists and researchers as reviewers for peer review panels, and assigning proposals for review.
In addition, Health Sciences prepares summary statements that include the assigned peer reviewers' critiques and peer review panel comments and scores. These statements help agency administrators make important funding decisions. The business also coordinates travel arrangements and oversees conference meeting and management for reviewers.
"As one of our long-term clients, CDMRP has provided us with a solid foundation to help us achieve our vision of enhancing human health," said Donald A. Holzworth, Constella Group CEO. "I am extremely proud of the contributions we make on behalf of CDMRP to help those affected by cancer and other life-threatening diseases."
Health Sciences has provided scientific peer review services on behalf of CDMRP since 1995, managing the receipt and review of more than 25,000 scientific research proposals. Health Sciences built PēRMIS, a peer review information management system that scores and records all proposals at peer review panels. PēRMIS facilitates and expedites workflow to support peer review activities.
Employees supporting the CDMRP contract range from 30-100 and are based in Constella's Bethesda and Frederick, Md., offices.
About Constella Health Sciences
Constella Health Sciences is the premier service provider in the public-sector health and biomedical research market. With more than 500 employees working across more than 20 disciplines, the business provides health-related technologies, services and research for public-sector clients such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Army's Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program.
About Constella Group
Constella Group is a leading provider of professional health services worldwide, celebrating 21 years of enhancing human health through innovative science, technology and knowledge solutions. Constella's two business units—Health Sciences and Clinical Informatics—create and provide health intelligence to help industry and government clients identify and address critical issues affecting human health. With Constella as the parent company, these business units comprise dynamic points of collaboration that build support, create momentum and add value from idea to impact across the full continuum of human health.
The company's 700 employees serve clients from company headquarters in Durham, N.C., and from offices in Atlanta; Morgantown, W.Va.; and Bethesda, Frederick and Silver Spring, Md.
