Clinical Research Services. Integrated Neuroscience Consortium is what's known as a site management organization, a new kind of service management business that consolidates clinical investigators into networks in order to offer clinical trial sponsors--drug companies, or CROs as their proxies--faster, cheaper and higher quality trials.

During the last five years private practice physicians have taken a bite out of academia’s traditionally dominant role in clinical research. The site management organization is the next step in the professionalization of clinical research. Site management organizations are embarking on a venture, equity-backed horizontal expansion. Will the consolidation of clinical researchers lead to vertical integration of CRO services?