Currently QLAB facilities in Singapore Atlanta, Ga., US Edinburgh, Scotland and Pretoria, SA, are all CAP certified. The company also announced that QLAB in China will apply for accreditation from the College of American Pathologists (CAP) by early 2006.
The Beijing facility will be managed by Susan Sun, who recently joined Quintiles. We are excited that our new enhanced services will now allow our customers to participate in the growth of clinical trials in Asia, freed from the problems and difficulties of exporting blood samples out of China." It consolidates our position as the most comprehensive central lab group in Asia and very nicely complements our clinical business, which is the largest pharmaceutical development group in Asia."Īlan Ong, Vice President and General Manager, QLAB Asia, said of the enhanced services: "QLAB Asia performed nearly a million tests in 2004, of which 400,000 tests were for China trials. Quintiles already operates the largest and most comprehensive central lab testing facility in Asia at its Singapore base and has been providing central lab services in China under the initial agreement with PUMCH signed in October 2003.Īnand Tharmaratnam, M.D., CEO of Quintiles Southeast Asia and QLAB Asia, said: "The new agreement represents true growth and quality standardization of our Asia central lab service. Under the new arrangement, QLAB facilities in China will have dedicated rooms for specimen management and analytical testing using Quintiles' core instruments and globally harmonized processes that follow global QLAB standard operating procedures and core quality standard. The new amended agreement with PUMCH enhances services for customers by allowing Quintiles central laboratory (QLAB) facilities in China to operate under the same standardized processes, controls and reporting mechanisms as other QLAB facilities. today announced that Quintiles Laboratories Asia (QLAB Asia) has amended its existing agreement with Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) to enhance central laboratory services in China. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (ots/PRNewswire) - Quintiles Transnational Corp.
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