China R&D Reader

There was a sharp slowdown in pharmaceutical outsourcing in the last six months which “really caught a lot of people by surprise”, according to Jim Miller of outsourcing consultancy PharmSource, in his annual review of the sector at the Interphex show in New York.
For the contract research industry, which spans clinical research and early R&D [...]

US-based MPI Research and China’s Shanghai Medicilon have formed a joint venture in preclinical services, as they position themselves to cash in on what is a budding market sector in China.
Coined Medicilon-MPI Preclinical Research, the new venture will be based at the Zhangjiang Hi-Tech Park in Shanghai until later this year, when operations will be [...]