Clinical research expertise

Focused on the work that moves research forward.

Functions

Depth where precision matters.

Role coverage evolves with client need and the strength of ATC’s professional network. These areas define the firm’s principal focus.

Clinical Operations

Professionals who plan, coordinate, oversee, and deliver studies across sponsors, CROs, academic centers, and research sites.

  • Clinical project and program management
  • Study start-up and feasibility
  • Clinical trial management and oversight
  • Vendor, site, and monitoring operations
  • Clinical operations support and coordination

Pharmacovigilance & Drug Safety

Specialized talent supporting safety operations, governance, compliance, risk management, and inspection readiness.

  • PV operations and case management
  • Safety systems and vendor oversight
  • Risk management and signal support
  • Governance, compliance, and inspection readiness
  • Safety leadership and operational transformation

Regulatory Affairs

Professionals who translate requirements into practical submission, documentation, maintenance, and study-support work.

  • Regulatory strategy and operations
  • Submissions and lifecycle maintenance
  • IRB and ethics documentation
  • eTMF and essential document support
  • Clinical regulatory coordination

Clinical Quality

Quality professionals who help organizations prepare, improve, document, investigate, and operate with consistency.

  • Clinical quality assurance
  • Audits and inspection readiness
  • CAPA and root-cause analysis
  • SOP development and training
  • Quality systems and compliance support

Research Administration

Talent supporting the institutional, financial, documentation, and operational infrastructure behind research programs.

  • Research program administration
  • Contract, budget, and grants coordination
  • Study activation and documentation
  • Academic and health-system research support
  • Investigator and department coordination

Site Operations

Professionals closest to study execution, participants, investigators, and the day-to-day realities of research delivery.

  • Clinical research coordination
  • Site management and leadership
  • Patient recruitment and study support
  • eRegulatory and essential documentation
  • Site start-up, closeout, and compliance

Geographic reach

RTP-rooted. National when the search requires it.

ATC’s home is North Carolina’s Raleigh–Durham–Chapel Hill life sciences ecosystem. Searches can extend nationally for specialized functions, particularly where the relevant talent market is distributed.

Research Triangle

Local ecosystem knowledge

Close attention to the employers, institutions, sites, events, and professional community shaping clinical research in the region.

National search

Specialized reach

Targeted search beyond the Triangle when the role, work model, or function calls for a broader market.

Search discipline

Fit over geography alone

Location is one dimension of alignment alongside capability, readiness, compensation, work model, and team environment.

Have a role outside these categories?

ATC considers adjacent clinical research needs when the firm can add real value. A short founder conversation is the right place to assess fit.

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