ICON plc (NASDAQ: ICLR; ISIN:IE0005711209), a global provider of outsourced development services to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries, recently announced the opening of a full service central laboratory in Bangalore, India...

FIBRE PHOTONICS (SCOTLAND), a manufacturer of fibre optic probe technologies for environmental monitoring, aerospace, chemical analysis and process control applications, welcomes the appointment of Dr Des Gibson as a Non‐Executive Director...

Allen Coding Systems – part of ITW Ltd and one of Europe’s leading providers of thermal transfer, hot foil and laser coding and marking systems – continues to demonstrate its commitment to further aggressive growth with the appointment of Andy Phillips as Business Development Manager...

Leading global bioscience company, Penn Pharma, has won a contract to manufacture a new anti-malarial drug for use in clinical trials...

BioTek Instruments, Inc., a global leader in the development, manufacture and sale of microplate instrumentation for drug discovery and life science solutions, has hired Dr. Peter Banks as Scientific Director...

CEO & Chairman Jim Walker of Octagon Research Solutions, Inc., a pioneer and leading provider of breakthrough software and services to the life sciences industry, announced that Octagon will be sponsoring and exhibiting at the 2nd Asia-Pacific Clinical Trials Congress sponsored by the Indian Drug Manufacturers’ Association (IDMA)...

75 years after Johan Ernst Nyrop founded what is now GEA Niro, the company is still going strong, innovating and looking forward to a bright future...

Exco InTouch, the leading provider of patient communication solutions for the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors announces that it came in second at the prestigious 2008 Good Clinical Practice Journal (GCPj) Awards in the category of Most Innovative Patient Recruitment Strategy...

Sodexo has announced the creation of a new industry focussed pharmaceutical division to address the continued increase in demand for its services...

Premier Research Group Limited, the international pharmaceutical services group, has been awarded the Good Clinical Practice Journal (GCPj) Award for the “Clinical Research Team of the Year” for its Global Phase 2 Chronic Myeloid Leukemia team...

ISPE, a global not-for-profit association of 25,000 pharmaceutical science and manufacturing professionals, along with INTERPHEX and Pharmaceutical Processing magazine, announced during the Keynote Session at ISPE’s 2008 Annual Meeting held in Boca Raton, Florida, USA, that Pfizer’s New Containment (NEWCON) Facility for Oral Solid Dosage is the overall winner of the 2008 Facility of the Year Awards (FOYA)...

MDS Pharma Services, a leading provider of innovative drug-discovery and development solutions, won two awards for superior clinical-trial management at the Good Clinical Practice Journal (GCPj) Awards event in London...

DxS Ltd, a personalised medicine company and leaders in the provision of companion diagnostics, has announced the appointment of Stephen Murray as Head of Manufacturing...