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Bring proven talent to your clinical team.

HIGHLY TRAINED CRAs

Vigor’s Training Advantage Program

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EXPERIENCE VIGOR!

 

With a wealth of experience in clinical operations, leadership, and therapeutic knowledge, VIGOR successfully blends business acumen and clinical expertise to provide optimal precision in staffing selection and organizational growth. In the course of training and mentoring life science professionals, on behalf of the industry VIGOR represents so well, focusing on the blend of personal development with clinical expertise has been the cornerstone of ensuring that skill sets, and personal passions makes Vigor graduates the strongest candidate for your clinical research team.   

 

VIGOR trains and mentors talented life science professionals who are seeking new and exciting careers in clinical research, and under the direction of Carolyn Stroud, is adroit at discerning the appropriateness of trainees for this work based on the demands they will face. This alleviates missteps and weak candidates diluting the industry’s effectiveness and ultimately contributes to ROI overall. 

OUR CORE VALUES

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INTEGRITY

We are honest, open, ethical, genuine, and fair. People who know us trust us to adhere to our word. We are resolute and intentional about being the best at doing what matters most. We will always make it our priority to do the right thing.

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DIVERSITY

Vigor is globally focused to optimize cultural diversity in all that we help you to accomplish, recognizing that your success hinges on our collective ideology, strengths, and interests. Diversity also allows the Vigor Team to glean from a broad sample of perspectives from which we gain the most understanding and grow much stronger.

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CIVILITY

The Vigor Team is consistently respectful, compassionate and kind to colleagues, customers, and to all we encounter. We are authentic, embrace inclusivity, and inspire excellence in team interactions and initiatives.

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ACCOUNTABILITY

Acting with courage, challenging the status quo, and finding new ways to grow each other to deliver the “WOW” factor to our clients. We readily embrace personal accountability to meet business demands to improve effectiveness and promote confidence in our abilities to deliver.

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STEWARDSHIP

With decades of industry experience, Vigor is a consistent, reliable, knowledgeable, and trustworthy steward to guide and ensure the right blend of industry and interpersonal best practices for the best possible outcomes.

What our clients are saying

“I conduct several clinical trials through my medical practice and enjoy being a part of drug development. Early in my site’s clinical research history, study awards were infrequent, and our research staff turn-over was recurrent. Fortunately, I was contacted by Carolyn Stroud, to explore clinical research training needs and quality enhancement solutions. As a certified clinical research professional and experienced trainer, Ms. Stroud educated my study coordinators and sub-investigator on GCP-ICH regulations, clinical research practices, and reinforced our infrastructure. Believe it or not, I have maintained the same study staff for over 12 years! Carolyn, thank you for your expert training and guidance.”

Vieta Bland MD, Bland Clinic, PC

What our clients are saying

“Carolyn is a clinical research training and mentoring expert who creates psychological safety in life science team environments for C-suite executives and clinical research associates alike. Her approach is of genuine caring and empathy to produce the highest quality performance in individuals and multi-disciplinary teams. Her breadth of knowledge ranges from writing SOPs, to training new staff, to implementing new policies and procedures, and to identifying areas of individual or team improvement. She does this with a flare of inspiring people to grow and learn new things, and to be a part of a higher purpose. I highly endorse Carolyn and her company to place talent, improve resourcing training and performance, communicate best practices in clinical research, and to create efficiencies in any CRO or life science / sponsor company. She is a real gem.”

Alethea Wieland, PresidentClinical Research Strategies

What our clients are saying

“To prepare one of BCR’s research sites for an upcoming site visit by one of our major Clients, our team needed professional support to provide GCP training. I received an industry KOL recommendation to contact Vigor, a training and clinical trial resource placement ‘dynamo’. Vigor provided expert GCP training to the site’s Coordinators, PI, Sub-I’s, and support staff. In addition, Vigor provided additional insight to their recently hired RNs, who were new to the Coordinator role. Organizationally, Vigor assessed the site’s infrastructure, and proposed solutions to improve their research operations. Thanks to Vigor support, BCR was awarded the study. Having Vigor there to consult and train us greatly influenced our success.”

Owen Garrick, M.D.Bridge Clinical Research (BCR)

What our clients are saying

“I graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2018 with a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering. Upon graduation, I explored numerous career options and became increasingly interested in the rewarding field of clinical research management. Unfortunately, I had no working experience in the field. Even though I had a Ph.D. in a very translational field I had zero luck in breaking into the clinical research field even at the entry-level. I went to multiple networking events and made numerous connections. My connections were kind enough to inform me of different job postings at their respective companies, unfortunately these opportunities seldom panned out. My luck turned around at a North Carolina Biotechnology Center networking event, where I had the pleasure of being introduced to Carolyn Stroud, CEO of Vigor Biopharma. Vigor provided me with the tools necessary to become well-versed in clinical research, good clinical practices, and career paths in the field. I was also introduced to clinical research organizations, such as the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP), and senior associates in clinical research management. Thanks to the tools and connections provided to me by Vigor, I not only was contacted to interview for a Clinical Research Associate (CRA) position with a contract research organization (CRO) but I also excelled in the interview and was offered the position. I would like to personally thank Carolyn Stroud for taking the time to help me prepare for the interview and assisting in my career placement. I greatly benefited from the services provided by Vigor Biopharma and would recommend them to anyone looking to break into the field of clinical research. Ultimately, I turned down the CRA opportunity for a laboratory management position at UNC Chapel Hill Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, but I am grateful for the knowledge I have gained in clinical research and am excited to utilize it in a teaching and hospital setting."

Dr. Nasya Sturdivant, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

What our clients are saying

“I met Carolyn, the CEO of Vigor Biopharma Solutions via LinkedIn. I was excited to meet a fellow female entrepreneur and hoped to network in the future. Carolyn reached out to me for an opportunity to speak with her current class of students that were learning about what it means to be a CRA. There were areas in Carolyn’s curriculum based around Regulatory Affairs. She asked me if I would come and speak to her students; especially those interested in Regulatory. I was impressed with the knowledge the students already had regarding Regulatory Affairs. Their current course work was very detailed and I was able to give real world examples of my experience and what it means to be a RA professional. They asked amazing questions and we had a great dialogue. I was very thankful to Carolyn for creating that opportunity for me and my company not only to learn about her, her students, and her company; but to really display my thoughts and experiences around Regulatory Affairs. I’m very passionate about my profession and I could tell the students were ready to learn about both the medical device and pharmaceutical world. I highly recommend individuals looking into making a career move into Clinical Research, or just want to be more knowledgeable regarding Clinical and Regulatory strategies to get in contact with Vigor. The coursework is robust and an added value to any clinical professional."

Sequita LindseyEO LRACS, LLC
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