About Us
Our Purpose
Collaborate. Optimise. Expedite.
We support Biotech and MedTech companies to navigate and accelerate APAC and Australian clinical trials. We embed within your team and share your clinical development goals.
Drawing on deep industry experience, and local insights, we provide guidance and operational expertise to enhance efficiency and accelerate clinical trials.
We act as the local catalyst that keeps your clinical operations moving smoothly and performing at full capacity, fostering strong collaboration between your team, vendors, and clinical sites.
APAC and Australian Clinical Trial Insights
Panoptic Clinical Trial Solutions is an independent, Australian-owned clinical research consultancy specialising in tailored solutions for Biotech and MedTech companies initiating or expanding clinical trials in Australia and Asia Pacific (APAC). We provide advice, operational expertise, and local freelance support to optimise clinical operations in this region.
Panoptic provides insights into the clinical trial ecosystem in Australia include: information about government incentives (R&D Tax Incentive), clinical site selection, ethics committee/IRB submissions, and regulatory requirements.
We bridge the resource gap by providing specialist local freelance expertise to supplement your internal team.
Our personalised service utilises tailored solutions, creating a targeted approach to resourcing that complements the growing industry focus on adaptive protocol design.
We specialise in Clinical Operations Oversight.
In addition to supporting Biotech and MedTech companies directly, Panoptic Clinical also provides freelance/contractor solutions to Contract Research Organisations (CROs).
About Jo
Jo’s journey began in the world of scientific discovery at the University of Adelaide, Australia.
Where Deep Experience Meets Operational Excellence
A trusted team of local experts supporting global innovators to navigate and deliver trials across Australia and APAC
Jo’s career has taken her across the global pharmaceutical and biotechnology landscape—from major pharmaceutical companies to specialist CROs and then back into the agile world of biotech. Across more than 25 years, she has built a deep, practical understanding of what drives successful clinical development.
She has assembled a team of experienced clinical research professionals who bring complementary expertise and a shared passion for early‑phase development. Together, they work with innovators entering Australia and APAC to advance new medicines and technologies with greater speed, clarity, and confidence.
Joanne Kirby, Director and Principal Consultant
Communication and collaboration - Key to successful clinical trials.
Australia and APAC’s thriving biotech ecosystem is where Jo and her team have discovered the greatest opportunity to make an impact. They’ve seen the region’s remarkable capacity for advancing innovative, life‑saving treatments.
Through extensive experience across a wide range of clinical sites—large, small, local, and international—they’ve learned that the strongest trials are built on communication and collaboration.
This drives the way they work: partnering seamlessly with sponsors, CROs, researchers, and sites to enable efficient, aligned clinical operations.
Collaboration + Communication + Optimisation = Faster Clinical Trial Outcomes
A catalyst for progress for global biotech and medTech companies
Today, as Director and Principal Consultant at Panoptic Clinical, Jo brings her expertise and passion to a variety of projects. Whether it's high-level clinical trial oversight, strategic advice or hands-on management and monitoring, her focus remains unwavering: to be a catalyst for progress for global Biotech and MedTech companies conducting clinical trials in Asia Pacific.
