Lotus Clinical Research Academy

LCRA, is a division of Norwich Clinical Services (NCS), a CRO based in Bangalore. NCS is a part of Alvogen group, a generic pharmaceutical company based in New Jersey, USA, with operations in more than 20 countries across the world. NCS is engaged in providing clinical research and pharmacovigilance services.

NCS offers services in the areas of Bioequivalence studies, Clinical Trials – Phase I to IV, Medical writing, Statistics and Pharmacovigilance services. NCS is located in two locations in Bangalore. Its corporate office, bioanalytical lab, clinical trial unit and pharmacovigilance is situated at Koramangala.

Clinical Unit consisting of 72 beds, to conduct Phase I trials and Biostudies, is located within a 350 bed hospital at Hebbal. LCRA, the training division of NCS, offers training to aspiring students in the area pharmaceutical and clinical research.

More than 500 of its alumni are successfully working in the leading clinical research and pharmaceutical companies in India. LCRA looks forward to grow and expand on this platform of excellence in life sciences education. LCRA is the only training unit in this sector which offers practical training oriented towards industry in all the programs.

It closely works with reputed Universities, both in India and abroad, to provide practical training to post graduate students. LCRA offers custom made corporate training to life sciences professionals based on the requirements of each company.

The programs range from short term programs which range from a day to a week and long term programs which are conducted upto to 3 months.