What significant achievements has Lorraine Marchand accomplished in her career?
Throughout her career, Marchand has led over 200 clinical programs from pre-clinical phases to NDA submission and launch. She developed a business model that transformed a specialty-contract research organization into a full-service provider, improved the operating margin of a global drug development company by 20%, reduced drug development cycle time by 30% for a pharma company, and implemented cost-cutting measures resulting in $100 million in productivity and efficiency gains. Her accomplishments have been recognized with awards from Bristol-Myers Squibb, the National Institutes of Health, and the Pennsylvania Governor’s Hannah Penn Leadership Award.