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Another notable winner was South Africa's Aurum Institute for Health Research. It picked up the Most Innovative Patient Recruitment Strategy award for the Thibela TB Study, which used innovative communication techniques to enrol over 38,000 miners to the study. Dr Audrey Banyni, of the Mine Health and Safety Council in South Africa, said: "I am more than happy. In fact, ecstatic. It is a challenging trial because we are involving different mining organisations. The participants are from very different cultural backgrounds, including Zulus and people from Mozambique. We also have the involvement of the labour movement. So it is actually a great achievement for Aurum."

One of the key individual awards of the evening was the Clinical Research Professional of the Year, which was sponsored by the UK Institute of Clinical Research. The winner, Dr Richard Schulz from the CRO Chiltern International in the Czech Republic was praised for being a role model to both CRO and site staff, inspiring them to achieve outstanding result, particularly in an emerging region.

The Clinical Research Team of the Year was sponsored by global CRO i3, and the award was presented to Novartis Pharma's Aclasta/Reclast Horizon RFT Team. Accepting the award on behalf of their colleagues Dr Erik Eriksen and Dr Phil McKernan explained their team "...spread across the Atlantic, half of them were in the US and half were in Basel. So there was a lot time challenges. But the main challenge was that the trial was outsourced to a great extent and to co-ordinate that effort was a testimony to the teams on both sides of the Atlantic. And it has resulted in rapid approval by both the FDA and the CHMP."

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