Ventiv's Clinical Services division has joined with India's largest
domestic contract research organization (CRO), SIRO Clinpharm, to
provide India-based clinical data management services, offering
pharma and biotech companies...
Near-infrared (NIR) chemical imaging is emerging as the analytical
tool of choice for drug formulation development, analysis and
process monitoring of the increasing number of advanced drug
delivery systems.
Medical Services International (MSI) has been contracted by a
Chinese corporation to produce a potentially life-saving diagnostic
test kit for avian flu that will give test results in 30 minutes
instead of the current three days.
UK-based Synexus Clinical Research has formed the first
patient-recruitment site management organisation (SMO) in India to
cash in on India's burgeoning clinical research market.
Premier Research has continued its spate of acquisitions this year,
with the latest addition of clinical research organization (CRO)
Imform, which will aid the company's expansion plans into Eastern
Europe.
India's clinical research industry is currently valued at $100
million (€83 million) and is almost doubling each year, reflecting
the shifting focus of the pharmaceutical outsourcing industry to
Asia.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) has cut $400 million in annual expenses
over the last two years in order to boost its R&D pipeline and
achieve sales and earnings growth beginning in 2007.
India's Ranbaxy Laboratories has been granted a US patent on its
controlled-release drug delivery system, which takes the form of a
'floating' tablet that once swallowed, is retained in the upper
gastrointestinal...
The European Commission has profiled the top 100 biotech technology
offers in a new brochure, which showcases the offers in such a way
that encourages European researchers to pursue the exploitation of
their own research results.
Omnicare will soon be offering staff that are "eClinical trained"
as a strategic tool to woo clinical trial contracts and compete
with services offered by rival contract research organizations
(CROs) such as Quintiles.
SRA International has received a $15 million outsourcing contract
from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to provide enterprise
messaging and IT infrastructure support services over the next 6
years.
Drug production company Patheon has released its fourth-quarter
results, which has revealed that profit has jumped 180 per cent
despite a recent production halt at a Puerto Rican subsidiary. This
bodes well for the recent manufacturing...
Shanghai-based biotech company WuXi PharmaTech has grown more than
100 times in the last 5 years after operating successfully in
China's infant biotech industry by providing variety of outsourcing
services in drug R&D.
Ventiv health reported a strong performance across all its business
units in the third quarter, with total revenues increasing by 44
per cent to $128.4 million (€107.6 million) compared to the third
quarter of 2004.
PPD are using biomarkers to develop a simple and cost-effective
blood test to improve diagnosis of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) - the
most common form of renal cancer in adults.
