Quintiles has reached an agreement with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital (PUMCH) in Beijing to expand its central laboratory services in China.
The agreement permits RTP-based Quintiles to use testing services within PUMCH’s clinical laboratory.
Founded in 1921, PUMCH has 1,200 beds, 2,480 employees and more than 400 professors. The hospital supports 3,500 outpatient visits a day and 25,000 inpatient visits a year.
Quintiles will place staff within PUMCH to provide support services associated with the collection and management of clinical trial specimens for its customers. Other lab services in support of investigators in China and project management will be provided by Quintiles’ facilities in Singapore.
“China is an excellent country for clinical research, offering rapid patient recruitment, large patient populations and unique gene pools,” said Neil Ferguson, managing director, of Quintiles for Greater China. “–With this agreement, we intend to offer our customers access to a large number of new investigators and patients while effectively managing time requirements and maintaining our consistent high global standards.”
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