Quintiles chief sees opportunities
Quintiles Transnational, the Durham company that helps drugmakers test and sell new medicines, gets its business from an industry that is trying to ensure its future by shrinking and consolidating.
Drug development is also undergoing significant changes. But Dennis Gillings, Quintiles’ founder and chief executive, sees opportunity as GlaxoSmithKline cuts costs and jobs, Pfizer buys Wyeth [...]
China’s one stop research shop
John Oyler has founded a string of startups in the US, including Genta, a biotech specializing in cancer drug discovery, and Galenea, which focuses on treatments for psychiatric diseases. But in 2005 he chose China as his base to launch BioDuro, a life sciences Contract Research Organisation (CRO). He explains to Chemistry World how he [...]
Radiant shunning the China stereotype
Chinese outsourcing firm Radiant Pharma & Tech is blasting through the stereotypes being pinned on companies operating in low-cost economies, with the relatively young firm hoping to give companies in established markets a run for their money.
Radiant, formed in 2006, has taken on board the concerns European and US customers have voiced regarding outsourcing to [...]
China Trials 2009