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Contract research organisations 2 companies

CROs run trials for drug companies and governments, and some sell the statistics and data work on their own.

Emmes logoEmmesEmmes, an American CRO with most of its job postings in Bengaluru, runs trials for governments and drug companies.Bengaluru
Cytel logoCytelCytel, with engineers in Pune, sells the statistical and data work of trials beside its trial-design software.See alsoClinical trial software
How it all worksClinical trials3,000 patients, 200 hospitals, every step recorded.
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What's changing

The CRO is becoming a software company.

CROs compete less on the number of staff and more on the software and AI they use to run trials faster. Some now sell that software on its own.

Companies: ingrid's company map. Hiring signals: postings feed of 5 Nov 2026.