Quintiles Opens BPO Center in China

US healthcare consultancy Quintiles has launched a business process outsourcing (BPO) and project management center in Dalain in the northeast of China, with a multilingual workforce to serve clients in the Japanese, Chinese and South Korean biopharmaceutical markets.

Quintiles offers clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions through a network of more than 20,000 professionals in 60 countries. Back in 2008, the firm acquired US-based decision-analytics and market research consulting firm Eidetics, to strengthen its core consulting offering in the areas of full service research and analytics for drug development and commercialization.

The new Dalian operation will provide data management, biostatistics, medical writing, post-marketing safety surveillance and back-office support for global and local biopharma companies. The office will also support clinical operations for study sites in northeast China.

Quintiles anticipates growing the center to 500 staff in the next few years, once all services are fully established. It will be the company's fourth hub office in Greater China, joining Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Anand Tharmaratnam, SVP and Head of Asia Markets, comments: 'Following the success of Quintiles' Bangalore BPO center, which has over 1,000 people supporting global studies, the Dalian Center of Excellence will provide a North Asia support structure for our growing business in Japan, Korea and China.'

Web site: www.quintiles.com .

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