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ICON releases its ICON Cares 2024 Report
DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR) a world-leading clinical research organisation powered by healthcare intelligence, today releases its ICON
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[{"type":"text","content":" DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--\nICON plc, (NASDAQ: ICLR) a world-leading clinical research organisation powered by healthcare intelligence, today releases its ICON Cares 2024 Report. The report outlines how the company is delivering on its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, as delivered through its ICON Cares program.\n\nIn recognition of its efforts in 2024, ICON received a score of 72/100 from EcoVadis, a leading provider of business sustainability ratings, an increase of two points on the previous score, earning ICON a silver medal. ICON also achieved a B- score on its CDP Climate Change response. Most recently, ICON has been named by TIME magazine as one the World’s Best Companies in Sustainable Growth 2025 and the highest ranked CRO.\n\nOn the publication of the report, ICON’s CEO, Dr. Steve Cutler commented: “Our industry continues to rapidly evolve – sitting at the confluence of the AI revolution and a parallel revolution in biomedical science. This represents an unprecedented opportunity to address unmet clinical need and to impact the lives of countless patients. As we embrace these changes, we remain focused on delivering on our ICON Cares commitments to our patients, customers, people and planet.”\n\nThe ICON Cares 2024 Report is available here. Highlights in the report include:\n\nContinued focus on improving public health and increasing access to clinical trials\n\nICON recognises access to healthcare as a fundamental human right. In 2024, we continued strides towards improving patients’ lives and concentrated on expanding trial access and improving representation for all participants, trial investigators and community and patient advocacy groups. In 2024, ICON supported over 1,270 clinical studies involving over 416,000 patients. Our efforts contributed to 19 medicines receiving original or supplemental approval.\n\nInnovation and artificial intelligence (AI)\n\nICON, powered by healthcare intelligence, is devising innovative solutions, leveraging technology, data and partnerships to enhance patient access to clinical trials and to reduce the time from clinical trial to drug approval. ICON expanded its capabilities in AI and robotic process automation in 2024, enhancing efficiency, execution and delivery for its customers. Governance around this evolving technology was also strengthened while ensuring th...