Clinical Research Facilities
Quintiles Transnational Corp. announced that they will be opening an extended regional facility for the purposes of further improving their service offerings throughout European countries. The new facility will be purpose-built, with three buildings unified into a single modernised complex three located close to Edinburgh, Scotland.
The 115,000 square foot research and development center will be situated inside the Alba Campus close to Edinburgh and will have room for up to five hundred employees, covering divisions associated with Quintiles’ Clinical Development Services, such as Project Management, Data Management and Regulatory Affairs. The site shall be BREEAM (BRE Environmental Assessment Method) certified for sustainable design and minimal environmental impact.
The main attraction of the new site will be an 80,000 square ft centralised laboratory almost twice its previous capacity which will increase throughput of clinical trial samples and enable the ability to process almost 3 times more kits per day. It has been strategically situated to supply the whole European region where on-site laboratory services include urinalysis, serology markers, coagulation, hematology, specimen management, endocrinology, chemistry and biomarkers.
The facility includes Quintiles’ three Assay Development Labs for the purpose of capitalising on scientific advances. This specialises on the technical transfer of methods and assays, including verification of assays clinical instruments and research assays.
Quintiles, along with other clinical research organisations based in the United Kingdom, boast vast centralised lab networks with bases in India, China, Japan, Singapore, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina.
These CROs supply key laboratory services to a number of continents and in doing so, are able to lower transportation costs, minimising worries about import/export permits and providing local study assessment support, in turn boosting sample stability.
RPL, another well-known CRO or Institute of Clinical Pharmacology based in the UK (drug trial provider) who offers specialist services like CRF Design, also boasts in-house laboratories, with sites located at two acute London-based teaching hospitals, namely Mayday University Hospital and St George’s University of London. These laboratories are operated 24 hours a day by fully trained staff and are readily available to for immediate sample processing needs. Its labs comprise of refrigerated centrifuges for processing samples; refrigerators as well as -20°C and -80°C freezers for sample storage, of which are linked to an alarm system where temperatures are constantly monitored. Labs also comprise state-of-the-art, fully automated Drugs of Abuse, (DOA), analysers, supplying fast and accurate DOA results.
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