A European full-service CRO

The Smerud Medical Research Group (SMERUD) is a leading, commercial clinical Contract Research Organisation (CRO) providing full-service clinical trial services to biotech, pharma, med-tech and academic sponsors. We primarily operate in Northern Europe with headquarters in Norway and subsidiary offices in Denmark, Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, Austria and Poland. Thus, our clients will benefit from our local presence and point of contact and also full access to our firm’s overall expertise and experience.

The company is owned by a ‘family office’, and this guarantees ownership involvement, orientated towards long-term perspectives and leveraging of the client-provider relationship, including a personalized approach. We are passionate about clinical trials and consider the development of a study protocol or a study report as nothing less complex and beautiful than art, aiming for perfection in the final document. We are very proud of our highly competent and well educated staff, most of whom could claim seniority in the business of drug development.

We look at professional pride as a key value and our promise to clients and employees is that we will always adhere to premium business ethics and aim to deliver first class quality in all our services. Being innovators and entrepreneurs in several areas, we remain committed to our corporate vision: ‘Semper excelsior’.

The company was founded back in May 1993, meaning that we have provided high-level services and generated value in a high number of assets through profitable operations, covering all significant therapeutic areas for 30 years in a highly competitive and changing market.  Through the many decades of operations, we have learned that whatever we do, it has to be among the best on a world scene. Rather than aiming for a huger size (‘been there, done that’), our philosophy remains loyal to what it was some 30 years ago: never compromise on quality, and maintain a never-say-die attitude. Our mission is to plan, conduct, analyse and report all of our projects – big or small – with the same approach and attention to delivery of high-quality services and product development.