The contract research organization (CRO) Velesco Pharma has opened a new laboratory in its Plymouth, MI-based facility to support an increased demand for materials management.
The independent lab network has combined 11 of its brands, including ABC Laboratories, to reside under a single company in order to “leverage cross functional capabilities,” says CEO.
Mass Innovation Labs is working to change the way biopharmaceutical companies conduct research by providing a “crossroads” for CRO service providers, vendors, and investors.
LabCorp revealed a more than 46% increase in quarterly revenue from the same quarter last year as the recent $6.2bn acquisition of Covance brought in $620.8m of the overall company’s $2.2bn in Q2.
Contract analytical and bioanalytical service provider SGS Life Science Services has completed construction of its Shanghai, China, cGMP chemistry and biotechnology testing laboratories and will further increase space at its microbiology lab at the site.
Wasting no time in furthering its lab-based JV with Quest Diagnostics the world’s largest CRO Quintiles has opened a GLP-compliant bioanalytical liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) laboratory in Oss, the Netherlands.
CRO Pharmaceutical Product Development (PPD) has opened a central laboratory in Shanghai, China, in order to meet growing client demand for scientific and technical services there.
Central lab services provider LabConnect will be moving its operations center in Johnson City, Tenn., to a new 42,000-square-foot custom-built facility effective May 7.
Lab Corp will buy Covance for $6.1bn in a surprise deal that follows another quarter in which early phase gains were offset by underperformance in central labs.
Labs involved in EU-wide assessments of animal-free alternatives to drug quality and batch tests may soon be able leverage their work when seeking clearance to offer such methods as a service.
Medpace Laboratories, Singapore will serve and support new and existing Medpace pharmaceutical clients conducting clinical research in the rapidly expanding Asia Pacific region.
US health insurer Independence Blue Cross (IBC) has selected LabCorp to be its preferred provider for outpatient and specialty lab services under a new eight year deal.
CRO Covance has launched an external laboratory management service offering for biopharmaceutical sponsors looking to external lab testing for its clinical trials.
Bristol-Myers Squibb (B-MS) has signed up Quintiles as a central labs supplier, prompting more questions about Icon’s status as a preferred provider of laboratory services.
Outsourcing-Pharma presents its latest round up of movements in the pharma outsourcing sector, including appointments at Charles River, AMRI and Synexus.
Clearstone Central Laboratories is to wind down or sell its centralised cardiac services (CCS) business because significant investment would be required to remain competitive.
Quintiles has relocated its global central laboratory in Japan to meet rising demand from the local market and US and European pharmas keen to include the country in their clinical trial network.
In response to rising demand from the pharma industry NeuroScience Associates (NSA) is opening a new laboratory that will quadruple capacity for its brain and spinal cord histology services.
The Oxford, UK, biomarker laboratory facilities of India’s Veeda CR have been taken over by Icon Development Solutions, in a deal which both consolidates existing customer relationships for the buyer and opens up new product areas to focus on.
LGC Standards is increasing its presence in Asia through the opening of its first office in China, which will provide laboratory quality management services to the local market.
The safety of drugs imported into the US remains high on the FDA’s agenda, with the agency publishing new draft guidance that raises standards for labs inspecting products made overseas.
US contract research organisation ACM Global Central Laboratory has bought its longstanding business partner Pivotal Laboratories of the UK in a bid to boost its international reach.
Quintiles is planning to spend $19m ($14m) to consolidate its US
central lab and its clinical services office in
Georgia to one location and expand capacity at the same
time.
PerkinElmer will now offer a new lab equipment relocation service
to support customers who need to move and require special care for
their testing and manufacturing equipment.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has designed a
portable "lab on a chip" diagnostic device, which the researchers
say could identify biological or chemical weapons faster and easier
than current methods.
New research show that the outsourcing trend is set to drive the
analytical laboratory market over the next seven years, however
small labs are in danger of drowning in the process.
Bayer Diagnostics launches its latest immunoassay system, part of
its ADVIA family of automated clinical laboratory solutions, which
enable laboratories to rapidly perform a wide variety of
disease-specific tests which enhance the...
The primary difficulty facing anyone given the task of designing a
state-of-the-art laboratory is that they generally don't have
access to a crystal ball to tell them exactly what will be at the
leading edge of technology in...
Agilent has launched a Laboratory Resource Management (LRM) service
for life science and pharmaceutical laboratories that promises to
improve productivity, reduce service costs and simplfy
administration.
Drug companies are waking up to the notion that the environment a
researcher works in - whether in drug discovery or the quality
control lab - is a crucial factor in determining their productivity
and creativity. And they have started...
UK laboratory equipment specialist Lab-Plant says it can bring
process automation within the reach of the majority of
laboratories, pilot plants and mini-production facilities with the
launch of its Lab Manager process control computer...
