About HCRS
The first Site Management Organisation in Himachal Pradesh — building clinical research capacity with quality, ethics, and compliance at the centre.
Our Story
India is one of the world's largest clinical trial markets, but research activity is heavily concentrated in a few major cities. Himachal Pradesh — despite having a strong public healthcare system, qualified clinicians, and diverse patient populations — has been almost entirely absent from the clinical research landscape.
HCRS was founded to change that. We are the first Site Management Organisation in Himachal Pradesh, established with a clear purpose: to connect the state's healthcare institutions with the global clinical trial ecosystem, and to do it properly — with quality, ethics, and compliance built in from day one.
We saw hospitals with high patient footfall but no research coordination infrastructure. We saw experienced clinicians interested in research but lacking the operational support to participate in sponsored trials. We saw communities that could benefit from access to investigational therapies but had never been offered that opportunity.
HCRS exists to bridge these gaps. We work on the ground, inside institutions, alongside investigators. Our role is to handle the operational complexity of clinical trials — coordination, compliance, staffing, regulatory submissions, quality management — so that clinicians can focus on patient care and scientific decision-making.
Mission
To strengthen the clinical research ecosystem in Himachal Pradesh by providing comprehensive site management services that meet international standards of quality, ethics, and compliance — enabling investigators to conduct research and patients to access new treatments.
Vision
To establish Himachal Pradesh as a recognised and trusted destination for clinical research, with a network of sites and investigators that meet the highest global standards — and to serve as a model for how clinical research capacity can be built in underserved regions of India.
Our Founding Principle
“Clinical research must serve patients first. Everything else — timelines, budgets, enrolment targets — follows from that.”
What Guides Us
Our Values
These are not aspirational statements. They are the standards we hold ourselves to on every study, at every site, every day.
Quality
Every process we build is designed for audit-readiness from day one. We maintain standardised operating procedures aligned with ICH-GCP and work to ensure data integrity at every point of collection. Quality is not a department at HCRS — it is how we operate.
Ethics
Patient safety and informed consent are non-negotiable. We support investigators and ethics committees to ensure every participant is treated with dignity, fully informed about their rights, and protected throughout their involvement in a study. We do not take shortcuts with consent.
Compliance
We operate within the framework of India's New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019, and maintain current knowledge of CDSCO requirements, ICH-GCP updates, and international best practices. When regulations change, our SOPs change with them.
Patient Safety
The safety and wellbeing of trial participants is the foundation of everything we do. Our training, processes, and oversight systems are built around this principle. Adverse events are reported promptly. Safety signals are taken seriously. No trial outcome is worth more than a participant's health.
What Sets Us Apart
The HCRS Difference
Local Knowledge, Global Standards
We understand Himachal Pradesh — its healthcare institutions, its patient communities, its regulatory landscape, and its cultural context. But we operate to international standards. This combination of local insight and global compliance is what makes HCRS effective where national CROs with no regional presence struggle.
Embedded, Not Distant
HCRS coordinators work on-site, inside the clinical team. We are not a remote management layer that shows up for monitoring visits. Our people sit in the outpatient department, know the staff by name, and catch issues before they become findings. This embedded approach is central to how we deliver quality.
Built for the Region
We did not take a metro-city SMO model and transplant it to Himachal Pradesh. Our processes, training programmes, and staffing models are designed for the specific realities of conducting research in a Himalayan state — from managing logistics in hill terrain to conducting informed consent in local languages.
Transparent & Honest
We will tell a sponsor if a site is not ready. We will flag a risk in a feasibility assessment even if it costs us the project. Clinical research cannot be built on inflated promises, and our reputation depends on being the partner that sponsors can trust to tell them what they need to hear.
Our Team
Leadership
Our leadership team brings together clinical research expertise, healthcare operations experience, and deep knowledge of Himachal Pradesh's institutional landscape.
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Managing Partner
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Head of Operations
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Head of Quality & Training
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Registered Office
Karyuth, Rajgarh, Sirmaur — 173101, Himachal Pradesh, India
Work With HCRS
Whether you're a pharmaceutical sponsor exploring new sites, a CRO looking for regional partners, or an investigator interested in clinical research — we'd like to hear from you.