Clinical CRO and real-world evidence services

The deciding factor

Excellent studies are shaped by thousands of correct decisions. Make the first one count with experienced, resourceful specialists in clinical development and real-world evidence.

Meet AKEURA

Every promising medicine given the study it deserves

Start where your study is

By therapeutic area or stage of development

Experts behind every study

Senior clinicians, scientists, and epidemiologists who shape your study from the first conversation to the final report.

Meet our people
Kristy Nichols

Kristy Nichols

Senior Vice President, Neuroscience

  • Leadership
  • Neuroscience

Heading the neuroscience business, backed by 17 years running her own CRO and global biometrics leadership in CNS research.

Laurence De Moerlooze

Laurence De Moerlooze

Senior Vice President, Infectious Diseases and Vaccines

  • Leadership
  • Infectious diseases
  • Vaccines

20+ years of sponsor-side vaccine development, from licensed vaccines to Zika, now leading infectious disease and vaccine programs.

Bronwyn Secourgeon

Bronwyn Secourgeon

Associate Vice President, Cardiometabolic Diseases

  • Leadership
  • Cardiometabolic

Heading the cardiometabolic business, drawing on nearly 20 years of business development across Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Kaatje Bollaerts

Kaatje Bollaerts

Senior Vice President, Real-World Evidence

  • Leadership
  • RWE

20+ years in vaccine and infectious disease biostatistics, now leading global real-world evidence research and partnerships.

Manuel Castro Cabezas, MD, PhD

Manuel Castro Cabezas, MD, PhD

Expert Scientific Officer

  • Cardiometabolic

Practicing internist-endocrinologist and vascular specialist, now bringing clinical depth to cardiometabolic research.

Erik van Zandbergen

Erik van Zandbergen

Senior Vice President, Operations

  • Leadership

Overseeing global clinical operations, drawing on a pharmacy background and 15+ years of CRO business development leadership.

Check out our record

Decades of experience, and the record to prove it.

  • 500+

    Experts embedded
    across 5 continents

  • 1,000+

    Studies delivered,
    with 1 in 3 real-world

  • 700k+

    Participants enrolled, from single
    sites to population-scale studies

  • 5,000+

    Sites engaged across
    75+ countries

Our therapeutic expertise

View our therapeutic scope

Neuroscience

Some of the hardest indications in medicine, run by people who have spent their careers in them. We know the endpoints, the raters and the sites that actually deliver.

140+ studies Learn more

Infectious diseases and vaccines

Respiratory and tropical infections, antimicrobial resistance, and global vaccine studies, run by teams on the ground where infectious diseases circulate. We read the epidemiology before we write the protocol.

400+ studies Learn more

Cardiometabolic diseases

Event-driven outcomes trials and the tough-to-recruit metabolic indications: obesity, diabetes, MASH, and lipid disorders. We keep the participants we recruit.

100+ studies Learn more

Your trusted partner from the clinic to the real world

Explore our solutions

Early phase clinical development

Confident first steps from first dose to proof of concept, with answers your next study can trust

Late phase clinical development

Phase IIb to Phase IV trials at scale, built to carry your program through approval and beyond

Real-world evidence studies

Regulatory-grade post-approval safety and effectiveness studies, led by RWE specialists who stay within reach

News and insights from our teams

Company news, fact sheets, and white papers from the people who design and run our studies.

Everything a study needs to succeed

A team of hands-on clinicians, scientists, and epidemiologists,
drawing on more than 25 years of experience.

They brought creative ideas to the project, were proactive throughout, and were led by an experienced team. We had a very positive experience and would definitely recommend them to anyone considering a top-notch CRO.

Sr. Director, Clinical Operations
Pharmaceutical Company

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