India is fast emerging as a favoured destination for clinical trials by global pharmaceutical and biotech companies that are looking for partnerships or setting up new operations. Two major reasons for its popularity are: easy access and availability of a large, diverse and therapy-naïve population with vast gene pool and lower cost of technical services resulting into lower per patient trial cost.
India is fast emerging as a favoured destination for clinical trials by global pharmaceutical and biotech companies that are looking for partnerships or setting up new operations. Two major reasons for its popularity are: easy access and availability of a large, diverse and therapy-naïve population with vast gene pool and lower cost of technical services resulting into lower per patient trial cost. India also has the advantage of having a large pool of highly trained physicians, nurses, and technical personnel; numerous world-class medical facilities; broadly developed information technology infrastructure; a favourable IPR environment (post signing the WTO agreement) and use of English as the primary business and medical language. The total value of clinical research performed in India in 2007 is estimated about US$200 million. The major companies involved in Clinical research in India have a wide range of services to offer.Thus, the industry needs to know the companies operating in this field.
The directory of ‘Clinical Research Companies in India’ is the answer to it and has been prepared as a ready-reckoner for use by the industry globally – pharma and biotech companies, contract research companies, funding organisations and others. It has been compiled, considering the companies involved in clinical research and support services. As it is an emerging market and also as most of the companies may not be listed on stock exchangers, the list may not be comprehensive. The directory covers 73 companies and each profile includes details like description of the company, name of Director/CEO,areas of operation, clinical trial expertise, contact details and other information. The details have been obtained from published sources like the respective websites of the companies as of January 2008. All the companies are listed in alphabetical order.
Accutest Research Laboratories (I) Pvt. Ltd. 8 Ace Biomed Pvt. Ltd.10 Actimus Biosciences Pvt. Ltd.12 Apothecaries Ltd.14 Asian Clinical Trials Limited15 Aurigene Discovery Technologies17 AquaTrius Bioventures Pvt Ltd.18 ALTANA Pharma Pvt Ltd (India)20 Alkem Laboratories Ltd 22 Actis Biologics Pvt Ltd 24 Ashco Contract Research centre 25 AnaZeal Analyticals & Research Pvt Ltd. 27 Avra Laboratories 29 Bharat Biotech International Ltd.30 BioArc Research Solutions 33 BV Patel Pharmaceutical Education and Research Development 35 Bioserve Clinical Research Pvt. Ltd. 37 Cadila Pharmaceuticals Limited 39 Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) 42 Chembiotek Research International 45 Clinigene 47 ClinInvent Research Pvt. Ltd 49 CliniRx Research Pvt. Ltd. 51 ClinTec International 52 Clintrac International 54 D & O CRO 56Dr Reddys Laboratories Limited 57Eli Lilly and Company (India) Pvt. Ltd 59Fortis Clinical Research 61 GlaxoSmithKline 62 Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Limited (GPL) 64 GVK Biosciences Pvt Ltd 66iGATE Clinical Research International 68Intas Pharmaceuticals 70IRL Synexus 72 INTOX Private 74 Jubilant Clinsys 76Johnson & Johnson, India 78 Kendle India 80 Lambda Therapeutic Research Ltd 82 Lotus Labs Pvt. Ltd. 84 Lupin Limited 86 Makrocare 88 Magene Life Sciences 89 Manipal Acunova 91 Metropolis Clinical Laboratories 93 Merck Limited 95 Novartis 97 Novo Nordisk India Private Ltd 98 Ocimum Biosolutions 100 Omnicare Clinical Research 102 Panacea Biotech 103 Pfizer Limited 105 Pharm-Olam International 107 Pharmanet 109 PPD Pharmaceutical Development India 111 Quintiles Research (India) Private Limited 113 Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited 115 Reliance Clinical Research Services 117 Reametrix India 119 Roche India Ltd 121 Sanofi-Aventis (Aventis Pharma Limited) 123 Sipra Labs Pvt Ltd 124 Siro Clinpharm Pvt Ltd 126 Sristek 127 SRL Ranbaxy 129 Sterling Synergy Systems 131 Synchron Research Pvt. Ltd 133Triesta Sciences 135 Torrent Pharmaceuticals Limited 137 Veeda Clinical Research 139 Vimta Labs Limited 141 Zydus Cadila 143
