Quintiles Transnational Corp, the world''s largest Contract Pharmaceutical Organization has recently set up a central laboratory Qunitiles Labs in Singapore. This is intented for standardized clinical chemistry tests for clinical trials in Asia Pacific region. This is in addition to the existing laboratory facility at South Africa, Scotland and USA.

Quintiles is a market leader in providing full-service contract research, sales, marketing, healthcare policy consulting and health information management services to the global pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices and healthcare industries.

The company offers cutting edge services, unmatched by any other company in the CRO industry and is a Standard & Poor (S&P) 500, Fortune 1000 and NASDAQ 100 company.

All clinical trials, irrespective of the phase in which they are, requires quality standards of the highest nature and elaborate safety measures to ensure that the safety and life of the human subjects involved in the trial are not compromised or jeopardized in any manner at any stage of the trial.

The role of Quintiles is to help clients achieve quality and timelines necessary for the global clinical development of a pharmaceutical product. This ensures a longer patent life for the drug and early product launch ("speed to market").

Quintiles Spectral (India) Ltd. (QSL), a subsidiary of Qunitiles Transnational Corp. offers clinical trials management services to Indian and multinational pharmaceutical and biotech organizations. In India, Qunitiles has identified and developed therapeutic specialization in various areas including :

- Central Nervous System (Psychiatry, Neurology) Oncology

- Cardiovascular

- Infectious diseases

- Internal Medicine

- TC and Consumer Products

In India, QSL offers following services to conduct clinical trials :

- Project Management

- Clinical Trial Monitoring

- Regulatory Affairs

- Drug Safety

- Protocol Development

- Site Management

- Quality Assurance

- Clinical Trial Supplies

- Innovex (Contract Marketing Service)

- QECG - Centralized ECG reading services.