Quintiles to open lab in Mumbai
Quintiles Transnational has announced plans to open a central lab in Mumbai, India, further expanding the company's global network of labs that support global and regional clinical trials.
Quintiles Transnational has announced plans to open a central lab in Mumbai, India, further expanding the company's global network of labs that support global and regional clinical trials.
The new lab is located in Leela Business Park in Mumbai with Quintiles' core clinical research and electrocardiogram (ECG) businesses, and will be equipped and staffed before the end of 2006 and is expected to be ready to support new trials in the first quarter of 2007.
'Close coordination between clinical investigators and a central lab network helps assure the high quality of data and improves the timeliness of sample processing,' said Tom Wollman, senior vice president, Quintiles Global Central Laboratories.
'Investigators are very aware of the time needed to transport samples to central labs, so the addition of a lab in India will give investigators more flexibility in scheduling patient examinations and help them complete studies on time,' Wollman added.
The Mumbai lab will participate in proficiency surveys as a prelude to obtaining full certification by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).
In India Quintiles has about 675 employees in offices in Bangalore, Mumbai and Ahmedabad.