Quintiles Adds Pretoria U. to Prime Site Program

Quintiles has entered a strategic alliance agreement with the University of Pretoria as part of its Prime Site program, an initiative to accelerate the development of new and more effective medicines. Other locations in the Quintiles Prime Site program include Queen Mary’s College in London and the Washington Hospital Center in Washington DC.

“Prime Sites are large clinical institutions that collaborate with Quintiles to enhance their infrastructure for conducting clinical trials,” said Dr. Christopher Cabell, head of Global Access to Patients. “The University of Pretoria was selected because of its experience in conducting clinical research, its access to substantial patient populations and clinical expertise all across multiple therapeutic areas. Through this new partnership Quintiles will be able to significantly improve its ability to access patients and investigators who are critical to facilitating the increasingly complex therapies under development.”

Quintiles plans to set up numerous Prime Sites around the world, moving to include emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, and Central and Eastern Europe in the program.

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