Globalisation

Catalent plans to bridge South Korean development gap with the West

17-Sep-2012 - Catalent has teamed up with CTC Bio to help South Korean pharmas work in the West.

INC opens clinical facility in "promising" Korea

13-Sep-2012 - INC Research has opened a new clinical operations facility in South Korea in a bid to grab a slice of what it says is a “promising” research market.

API production will boost contract pharma manufacturing biz

12-Sep-2012 - Active pharmaceutical ingredient production will be the driving factor behind a predicted boom in the pharmaceutical contract manufacturing market, according to Visiongain.

Emerging market regulatory staff should take test to level playing field, RAPS

30-Aug-2012 - Regulatory professionals working for contract research organisations (CROs) in emerging markets could benefit from taking a test to bring them up to par with those in developed countries, according to...

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GSK and AstraZeneca attracted by NHS' efforts to work with sponsors and CROs outside UK

29-Aug-2012 - GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and AstraZeneca have been attracted by NHS efforts to work with sponsors and CROs outside the UK according to Government investment group, UK Trade and Investment.

India's IT providers must become experts to handle biostatistics boom, says Alticure

27-Aug-2012 - India’s IT sector must expand its knowledge base to fully meet the surge in demand for biostatistics says Alticure Research.

ShangPharma sees $10m lift in revenues thanks top 10 clients

22-Aug-2012 - ShangPharma saw a $10m lift in its Q2 revenues bolstered by increased business from its top ten clients.

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India's inexpensive biostatistics outsourcing market set to boom: Beroe

13-Aug-2012 - India’s biostatistics outsourcing market is set to grow 15 per cent in two years thanks to a 50 per cent cost saving compared with the West, according to a new survey.

Aurobindo sets eyes on API CRAMS biz

08-Aug-2012 - Aurobindo has announced long term plans to steer away from its generics making business in a bid to focus on long term API manufacturing partnerships.

Argentina's CRO market set to boom, says report

04-Jul-2012 - Argentina’s clinical trial market will hit $76m (EUR60.4) by 2015 with growth driven by low costs, a good regulatory environment and large patient populations, according to a new study.

US base will bridge gap for manufacturing in China, says Suzhou pharma

27-Jun-2012 - China-based Suzhou Pharma has set up a US regulatory and QA hub in what it says is a bid to provide Western cGMP (current good manufacturing practice) know-how with low...

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UPDATES from DIA 2012: "Collaborate to innovate," says the association

27-Jun-2012 - “Collaborate to innovate,” is the message DIA has for clinical researchers at its 2012 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, US.

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Quintiles boosts lab testing in China

21-Jun-2012 - Quintiles has teamed up with the Shanghai Clinical Research Centre (SCRC) to ramp-up its biopharmaceutical lab testing services in China.

Indonesia and Philippines are next big drugs outsourcing hit, says study

20-Jun-2012 - Indonesia and the Philippines have been earmarked as the next hot emerging pharmaceutical outsourcing markets in a new study.

Trial regulation in emerging markets is now "too stringent," says new report

14-Jun-2012 - Regulation of clinical trials in emerging markets is now too strict and is prompting sponsors and CROs to adopt “one-size-fits-all” designs, according to a new study.

World Courier key to emerging market growth, ABC CFO says

12-Jun-2012 - AmerisourceBergen will use recently acquired World Courier to expand its existing businesses into new markets, its CFO said.

Catalent sells US packaging biz, focuses on formulation

04-Jun-2012 - Catalent has sold its US commercial packaging business to Frazier Healthcare as part of plans to focus on “innovative pipelines”.

PRA focuses on late phase services

31-May-2012 - PRA has expanded its operations in the Netherlands and the UK in a bid to meet what it says is soaring client demand for late phase and product registration services.

Covance inks alliances with Bayer and Eli Lilly

31-May-2012 - Covance has inked deals to provide preclinical services to Eli Lilly’s diabetes operations in China and late-stage support to Bayer Healthcare.

Dr Reddy's leaves Genpact to handle its financing

29-May-2012 - Dr Reddy’s will outsource its company-wide finance and accounting to Genpact in a bid to cut fixed costs.

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Chiltern CEO reflects on 30 years in the CRO biz

28-May-2012 - More than a third of patient recruitment will be done in emerging markets in the future, predicts Chiltern CEO Glenn Kerkhof.

Big Pharma pools together to tackle emerging market woes

24-May-2012 - A host of Big Pharma firms have come together to participate in a new forum in a bid to boost patient recruitment activities in emerging markets.

Manufacturing & lab demand help WuXi beat Q1 guidance

14-May-2012 - WuXi PharmaTech beat expectations in the first quarter as strong demand for manufacturing and laboratory services continued.

Chiltern sets up in Taiwan

02-May-2012 - Chiltern has set up a legal entity in Taiwan that will allow it to establish its own local clinical research operations for the first time.

Indian CRO weakness hits Q1 sales at Waters & Sigma-Aldrich

26-Apr-2012 - Pressures on Indian CROs hit first quarter instrument and research materials sales at Waters and Sigma-Aldrich.