In May, Howell became CEO of Parexel, one of the world’s largest clinical research organizations, an industry that has a central role in the Triangle’s life sciences ecosystem. North Carolina ...

While the CRO category includes hundreds of small players, a handful of larger companies like, Parexel, PPD and others like Covance, ICON and Charles River Labs have grown into big multinational ...

In 1997 PPD became, through an acquisition, the first CRO to offer outsourcing of drug discovery as well as merely development, Parexel expanded into the medical marketing arena through acquiring ...