BioTech

PerkinElmer Opens Center of Excellence in Hyderabad

PerkinElmer, Inc, a global company focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, recently announced plans to establish a state-of-the-art bio-pharma centre of excellence in Hyderabad. The center, which will open in October, will be the second high-tech facility recently established by PerkinElmer in India. The Hyderabad facility complements the recently opened PerkinElmer Technology and Innovations Facility in Mumbai, established in May 2008.

The new bio-pharma centre will provide regional PerkinElmer clients and partners in India with access to established and emerging drug discovery and pharmaceutical quality assurance and control applications and technologies, training facilities and expertise. The Hyderabad facility will also support focused research efforts in screening and profiling technologies. PerkinElmer India customers will have early access to new applications as they are developed, as well as the opportunity to help guide development of future technologies based on their current and emerging research requirements.

"The centre strongly demonstrates PerkinElmer's continued commitment to India, and our support for the expansion of the health and environmental infrastructure of emerging growth nations," said Dr Fedja Bobanovic, President, PerkinElmer India.The centre will enable the company to provide a special focus to the drug discovery market, thereby strengthening its position in this market and in particular the southern region. PerkinElmer plans to substantially broaden its India presence in areas such as pharmaceuticals, drug discovery, chemicals, petrochemicals, academics, biofuels, food and beverages, and expanding links with Government and private research institutes, in creating and marketing world class products and services with a focused solution-based approach.

EH News Bureau