Our Story

As your trusted partner as your product development CRO, we empower your organization to reach new heights. We provide end-to-end support for your pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical device products, ensuring your product receives the right support it needs to reach the market.

With expertise across therapeutic areas and diverse industries and our hands-on approach, we accelerate your development to optimize your timelines and your resources.

The Evolution of CDS

Like many success stories, Clinical Development Solutions rose from frustration over an unmet need.

In the late 1980's while managing the Winnipeg Rh Institute and ABI Biotechnology, Dr. Albert Friesen, President and CEO of CDS, experienced first hand the needs of a small biotech company when outsourcing their clinical trial work.  A small biotech needed service providers that were accessible, cost efficient and less bureaucratic than large clinical research organizations. His solution was to create an in-house team of professionals — and the roots of CDS were planted. 

As the teams' experience grew, so did the trial size from an initial trial of 30 subjects to trials with 90, then 900 and 3000 patients. Dr. Friesen saw that the clinical trial team could work quickly and be responsive to customer needs, thereby saving them money. In 2008, based on their history of high quality clinical trial research, the group spun off into GVI CDS taking on major clinical trials for outside sponsors such as the SAVI study on Aggrastat for Medicure Inc. and the CARIN trial for Ishemix Inc.

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Our Mission

At CDS, we seek to innovate in the healthcare space through accelerating our clients’ product development, allowing you to reach your product goals.

CDS is proud to support evolving companies bringing their innovations to life.

Our Core Advantage

Offering a high level of customer service, being in tune with customer’s needs, and efficiently adjusting a trial’s direction as needed.

Backed by decades of regulatory knowledge and clinical trials management, you can trust CDS as your partner to navigate the journey to bring your product to market.

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Ready to experience the CDS Difference?

Get in touch with our team to see how we can meet your organization’s needs.