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About LMK’s How-To Series LMK’s commitment to education inspires our most popular and most important service offering: TMF University. TMF University is LMK’s industry-first TMF training program, offering a wide range of courses to suit all needs; from beginners just learning to identify common regulatory documents to professionals seeking to hone their expertise.   Celebrating…

About LMK’s How-To Series LMK’s commitment to education inspires our most popular and most important service offering: TMF University. TMF University is LMK’s industry-first TMF training program, offering a wide range of courses to suit all needs; from beginners just learning to identify common regulatory documents to professionals seeking to hone their expertise.   Celebrating…

About LMK’s How-To Series LMK’s commitment to education inspires our most popular and most important service offering: TMF University. TMF University is LMK’s industry-first TMF training program, offering a wide range of courses to suit all needs; from beginners just learning to identify common regulatory documents to professionals seeking to hone their expertise.    Celebrating…

About LMK’s How-To Series What makes someone an expert? Does it take a title, authority, or skill? At LMK we believe an expert, above all, is someone with the heart of a teacher—someone who doesn’t just possess advanced knowledge but is also willing to share that knowledge for the benefit of all.   LMK’s commitment…

In part one of our two-part series on FDA inspection of sponsors, we confirmed that no matter the extent of the responsibility delegated away to a CRO or other service provider, “the ultimate responsibility for the quality and integrity of the trial data always resides with the sponsor” (ICH GCP 5.2.1).   We also discussed…

Of all the challenging aspects of managing a Trial Master File (TMF), grappling with a high number of protocol amendments nears the top of the list.  With every new amendment comes the need to produce, track, and file all the documents that have changed in tandem with the amendment. The number of documents that may…

One of the golden rules of Trial Master File (TMF) management is to avoid duplicate filing of documents.  We all know that the primary objectives of the TMF is to provide step-by-step documentation of the clinical trial and to protect the rights of patients.  It is also vitally important for the TMF to facilitate, and…

Achieving inspection readiness means that during all stages of a clinical trial, a regulatory inspector would be able to walk into the building and reconstruct the trial using only the documents and metadata present in the Trial Master File (TMF). Although the concept of an inspection-ready TMF may be simply described, inspection readiness is not…

Discussion of FDA inspections, whether for cause or part of a routine GCP inspection, usually centers on the inspection of trial sites and the CROs who are tasked with managing them. The reason for the disproportionate focus on the inspection of trial sites and CROs stems from two material factors: the patient centered nature of…