Medidata Grants Manager Optimizing Investigator Grants Medidata Grants Manager™ (formerly Fast Track Grants Manager®) is the industry-leading investigator site benchmarking tool that helps clinical trial sponsors ensure fair and consistent investigator payments, mitigate compliance risks and reduce trial start-up time in the critical area of site enrollment. Grants Manager provides access to industry-wide information through the PICAS® database, shortening the negotiation cycle and fostering rapid acceptance and active participation by investigators, in an on-line, collaboration-ready Internet-based platform. The major contributor to the lengthy—and costly—delays in clinical studies is site contract and budget negotiations and approval¹. Grants Manager directly addresses this problem by harnessing the power of the largest database of negotiated investigator grants—nearly one-quarter million grants and contracts and more than 27,000 protocols in over 1,400 indications. Grants Manager provides the data along with trending and forecasting tools to assess cost effectiveness, ensure budget predictability and negotiate fair market value for investigator grants. Operating on a user-friendly, Internet-accessible platform, Grants Manager allows clinical, project management, contracting and finance professionals worldwide to accurately forecast project costs and efficiently manage their investigator budgets while providing trial managers and sponsor executives documentation and reviewable inputs showing fair payment value and reducing potential compliance issues. ¹ State of the Clinical Trials Industry 2007, Thomson CenterWatch